Not exact matches
The main problems with the religious right, Harris says, include disregard for poverty and international justice (particularly for women), obsession
over the issues of
abortion and gay marriage, and a mindset that generally embraces greed -
centered capitalism.
Her
over 20 years of practice as an attorney includes serving as litigation coordinator for the Women Against Abuse Legal
Center in Philadelphia, and on Planned Parenthood's trial team in its challenge to the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania
Abortion Control Act.
The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, launched last October and led by Representative Marsha Blackburn (R — TN), grew out of Republican backlash
over undercover videos released last summer by the
Center for Medical Progress, an antiabortion group that accused the organization Planned Parenthood of illegally profiting from the sale of tissue from
abortions.
The resistance starts now: Planned Parenthood, ACLU, and the
Center for Reproductive Rights just filed lawsuits in Alaska, Missouri, and North Carolina
over dangerous, unconstitutional, medically unnecessary
abortion restrictions.
Last week,
over protests from thousands of Ohioans statewide, Governor John Kasich signed a budget into law without exercising his line - item veto to strike a Targeted Restriction of
Abortion Providers (TRAP) provision prohibiting transfer agreements with public hospitals, a mandatory ultrasound provision, as well as a measure designed to block funds for preventive health care at Planned Parenthood health
centers in Ohio.
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Local physicians eventually take
over family planning work due to the lack of a Planned Parenthood health
center, and the Religious Coalition for
Abortion Rights provides consultation regarding abortion to Springfiel
Abortion Rights provides consultation regarding
abortion to Springfiel
abortion to Springfield women.
And the organization's work isn't getting lighter: Title X — a federally funded low - income family planning program — is rumored to be on the chopping block, and a Supreme Court battle
over whether or not crisis pregnancy
centers can lie about
abortion under the protection of the First Amendment looms in the future.