Sentences with phrase «passed abortion restrictions»
Here are all the states that have passed abortion restrictions since 2011.
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And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.
They have been passing new restrictions on abortions ever since.
In the past three years, states passed 205 restrictions on abortion — more than what passed in the entire previous decade.
State lawmakers passed the second - highest number of abortion restrictions ever this past year, with 19 states enacting 43 measures in 2012 that limited access to abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
South Dakota's legislature is strongly tilted against abortion rights, which makes passing restrictions fairly easy.
The New York abortion - on - demand law passed in April 1970 is the most liberal with virtually no restrictions other than that the abortion must be performed by a licensed physician within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Abortion Fights: The Texas state Senate on Saturday passed a sweeping set of abortion restrictions, becoming the latest in a series of state - level political fights that are triggering a frenzy of legal action, The Washington Post Abortion Fights: The Texas state Senate on Saturday passed a sweeping set of abortion restrictions, becoming the latest in a series of state - level political fights that are triggering a frenzy of legal action, The Washington Post abortion restrictions, becoming the latest in a series of state - level political fights that are triggering a frenzy of legal action, The Washington Post reports.
In 2012, after 19 states passed an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions, such as mandatory waiting periods or ultrasounds, individual supporters gave $ 98 million — $ 25 million more than they had the year before.
Florida, where extreme lawmakers passed a bill that blocks access to birth control and cancer screenings, and includes Texas - style medically unnecessary restrictions on safe, legal abortion that could shutter health centers;
Today, the Florida legislature passed a bill with Texas - style restrictions on safe, legal abortion that could close down health centers throughout the state.
With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.
Missouri politicians recently added even more medically unnecessary restrictions on safe, legal abortion by passing Senate Bill 5.
In addition to passing one of the most extreme abortion restrictions in the nation, years of hostile policies in Texas have left tens of thousands of Texas women without access to cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and other preventive care (read more HERE from the Guttmacher Institute).
Restrictions passed at state level don't support women's health and in fact hurt women by reducing access to safe abortion, as well as the means to prevent unintended pregnancies.
On Wednesday, the Missouri House debated and passed Rep. Franklin's (R - Camdenton) House Bill 194, a bill full of medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion.
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.
Similar restrictions on medication abortion passed but have been blocked by court order in Arizona, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
«Kentucky faces a perfect storm of attacks: A legislature that continues to pass ever more onerous restrictions on women seeking a abortion, a governor with a personal personal crusade to shut down every clinic in the state, and escalating protests that recently culminated in a blockade that prevented patients from entering the front door.
In states where these restrictions have been passed, some women have been forced to have a surgical procedure when they would have chosen non-surgical abortion instead.