Sentences with phrase «only abortion provider»

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One possible step forward is that abortion providers — as long as they are legally allowed in this country — should have to be independent corporations that only perform abortions and receive no federal funding, with regular inspections and investigations both financial and health - related, and the passing of new laws which more strictly regulate their practice.

Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.

And Hidalgo is not the only one; any number of Hagerty's members are in the crosshairs, though many of them, like the Teen Health Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine, also have no affiliation with abortion providers.

In 2012, Arizona, Michigan and Virginia took steps to establish stringent regulations that affect only surgical and medication abortion providers, but not other providers of outpatient surgical and medical care.

In 2000, PPWP entered into discussions with Women's Health Services, the only non-profit abortion provider in Pittsburgh.

It would have left Texas with only nine abortion providers in the whole state, and the Supreme Court rightly ruled that would put an undue burden on women to access health care.

If the Court had upheld Texas» anti-abortion restrictions, only nine abortion providers would have been left standing for Texas» 5.4 million women of reproductive age — and that's down from approximately 40 health centers before this dangerous law passed.

When Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (the only provider of safe and legal abortions in the state of South Dakota) announced that they would begin implementation of a previously enacted 72 - hour waiting period, the South Dakota state legislature passed a bill that exempts weekends and holidays from the 72 hours, which means that a woman could be forced to wait as long as 5 or 6 days for an abortion.

The proportion of U.S. contraceptive users relying on LARCs jumped from 2.4 % in 2002 to 14.3 % in 2014, the highest level ever recorded in the United States.9 There is also some evidence that LARCs are highly desired by many abortion patients and that patient interest increases when LARCs are available for immediate postabortion initiation.1, 11,12 Notably, all contraceptive methods, including LARCs, are appropriate for immediate uptake following a surgical abortion.13 In addition, recently updated medical guidelines support providing implants and injectable contraception at the time of a medication abortion, along with previously available methods like the pill, patch and ring; the IUD is now the only method that providers can not offer on the day medication abortion is started.14 This broader array of options is particularly significant given that medication abortion represents an increasing proportion of all abortions nationally.

The only one of those centers that is a state - licensed abortion provider in Missouri is in St. Louis.