Sentences with phrase «reduced abortion access»

These restrictions — hospital admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) requirements — have reduced abortion access in Missouri to just one operating licensed health center offering safe, legal abortion, forcing countless patients to drive hundreds of miles for health care.

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Not only would improved access to contraception impact the abortion rate in the U.S., it would dramatically reduce maternal and infant deaths around the world.
Proponents for an individual's reproductive rights support data suggesting comprehensive sex education and birth control reduce abortion rates when young people have access to them.
Those who are on the front lines of championing contraceptive access to reduce abortion in the developing world are having national impact among conservatives!
Lady O'Loan added her measures are not about reducing access to abortions or withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment.
Endorsing a man who publicly and privately promotes sexual promiscuity in hopes of reducing abortion is no less absurd than endorsing the candidate who promises increased access to abortion.
The authors give us a hint: «Our expectations for EC's effectiveness were biased upward by an early estimate that expanding access to EC could dramatically reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and subsequent abortion.
«MSI is also calling for healthcare professionals to provide women with comprehensive contraceptive information and access to the full range of modern methods via dedicated client consultations, and for more investment in training for healthcare professionals in fitting long acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs), which are a critical part of the Government's strategy to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in the UK.»
According to studies this access has helped reduce abortion numbers in other states.
Women's Affairs Unless the Supreme Court acts soon, on July 1 a new law will go into effect in Texas which drastically reduces access to abortion services.
Such government restrictions, combined with clinic violence and harassment, have drastically reduced the number of abortion providers around the country and have made access to the remaining providers exceedingly difficult for growing numbers of women...» More.
Background: Timely access to emergency contraception has the potential to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and subsequent abortions.
Timely access to emergency contraception has the potential to reduce unwanted pregnancies and subsequent abortions.
These laws therefore restrict the use of telemedicine in the case of abortion and reduce access to abortion services in rural areas.
Anyone who wants to decrease the number of abortions in the United States should join with Planned Parenthood in ensuring that women and families have access to family planning and birth control, the best way to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and reduce the need for abortion.
The «most effective way to prevent unintended pregnancy and reduce abortions is to improve access to safe, affordable, and effective contraceptive methods,» declared Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D - NY) and Harry Reid (D - NV) in a May 11 letter to their Senate colleagues.
«The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the number of abortions, and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning programs like Title X, and ensure more women and families have access to reproductive health care,» said Richards.
In the end, they decided the best way to reduce maternal deaths and complications from unsafe abortion would be to improve women's access to family planning.
Today, among Planned Parenthood Global partners in Mexico is an organization aiming to increase health access and reduce abortion stigma, and a leading local advocate for HIV, LGBT, and human rights issues in Quintana Roo.
Numerous studies show that improved contraceptive access and availability would reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion.
These burdensome and medically unnecessary regulations that single out abortion providers need to be recognized as part of an effort to drastically reduce access to safe and legal abortion.
Given reduced access to safe, legal abortion, the number of safe, legal abortions in the second trimester could nearly double in Texas.
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.
Medically unnecessary, burdensome regulations that single out abortion providers must be recognized as part of an effort to drastically reduce access to safe and legal abortion.
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