We advocate towards maintaining New York's pro-choice legacy by strengthening the state's abortion laws to protect women's health and safety and oppose any efforts to
restrict access to abortion services in this state or nationally.
Ceaseless attempts to
restrict access to abortion and stigmatize reproductive health aim to keep those seeking to advance reproductive health and rights on the defensive.
Planned Parenthood learned last fall that anti-choice groups had begun circulating a petition to seat a grand jury in an effort to
restrict access to abortion in Kansas.
Fully 68 % of these new provisions, 92 provisions in 24 states,
restrict access to abortion services, a striking increase from last year, when 26 % of new provisions restricted abortion.
One - third of these new provisions, 43 in 19 states, sought to
restrict access to abortion services.
We're facing a powerful and well - funded opposition who have proven they will do almost anything to
restrict access to abortion and affordable birth control.
While we may face renewed attempts to
restrict access to abortion in other parts of the country, California has constitutional protections regarding abortion.
«Defunding»: Who's Behind It and What It Really Means Politicians who want to
restrict access to abortion are the biggest pushers of «defunding» Planned Parenthood.
The last election made clear that Americans reject government interference into their personal health care decisions and Planned Parenthood Action Fund continues to oppose the continuation of several deeply unpopular policy riders that
restrict access to abortion.
He also said that any effort by a Trump administration or a Trump - stacked Supreme Court to
restrict access to abortion would «create an extraordinary upheaval» and that «we have to organize people to fight back.»
Still, potential parallels may be emerging as states in the U.S. move to
restrict access to abortion.
The combination of
restricted access to abortion and increased Internet access has led to the rise of Do - It - Yourself abortions in the U.S., many of which look remarkably like the illegal abortions taking place in Brazil.
New state - level laws
restricting access to abortion likely have not contributed to the decline.
The governor says the plan is a «direct assault on New York values» because it defunds Planned Parenthood and
restricts access to abortion and reproductive health services.
Instead of protecting women, the brief states, the law jeopardises women's health by
restricting access to abortion providers.
«In the past five years, states nationwide have passed an unprecedented number of laws
restricting access to abortion — shuttering hundreds of clinics and shrinking the ranks of doctors who provide abortion care... [W] e travel to the Midwest with a physician whose ability to practice is in peril.»
Not exact matches
Republicans are about
to nominate a truly dangerous man
to lead their fight
to restrict women's
access to abortion.»
We can ban
abortion,
restrict access to birth control but we can not help the babies live past one year old.
Because research looked at the years of 2008 - 2011, the Institute says that the falling numbers were not the result of recent
abortion -
restricting legislative measures; instead, they pointed
to the overall falling birth rate and greater
access to contraception.
«Official
abortion rate declined in Texas after law
restricted access to clinics.»
Olson, too, wants
to restrict abortion access and sponsored a bill
to defund Planned Parenthood.
These laws therefore
restrict the use of telemedicine in the case of
abortion and reduce
access to abortion services in rural areas.
The Tennessee State Legislature has doubled down on efforts
to restrict a woman's right
to safe, legal
abortion and equal
access to affordable reproductive health care.
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to block legislation that
restricts access to sex education, contraceptives and
abortion.
Along with an exponential increase in efforts
to defund Planned Parenthood, over the past 9 months there came an increased number of dangerous bills
to restrict access to safe, legal
abortion.
Meanwhile, Vice President - Elect Mike Pence is about the worst of any governor when it comes
to restricting access to safe, legal
abortion.
About the only bright spot for reproductive rights supporters was the defeat in Mississippi of a ballot initiative that would have sharply
restricted women's
access not only
to abortion but also
to various contraceptive methods by defining a person under state law as «a human being from the moment of fertilization.»
In addition, the president's budget excludes the DC
abortion ban, a policy rider
restricting the District of Columbia from deciding whether
to use locally raised revenue
to help low - income women
access safe
abortion care.
The Tennessee General Assembly has doubled down on efforts
to restrict a woman's right
to safe, legal
abortion guaranteed by the U.S. Supreme in Roe v. Wade and equal
access to affordable reproductive and sexual healthcare.
1979 In Bellotti v. Baird, the U.S. Supreme Court finds that the Massachusetts statute
restricting minors
access to abortion is unconstitutional as interpreted by the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
As legislators in several states are launching all - out attacks on women's health by
restricting access to birth control, medically accurate sex education, and
abortion, FOCA is needed now more than ever.
Austin, TX — Despite the fact that
abortion is one of the safest medical procedures performed in the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today ruled that medically unnecessary restrictions that could severely
restrict Texas women's
access to safe, legal
abortion are constitutional.
This is yet another attempt
to restrict access to safe, legal
abortion.
Nonprofits ask the court
to block Senate Bill 5, which severely
restricts access to safe, legal
abortion for Missourians
Ultimately, the legislature passed an omnibus TRAP (Targeted Regulations on
Abortion Providers) bill (SB 1722 / HB 1411) that lists over 10 medically unnecessary and burdensome government regulations and mandatory reporting to restrict women's access to safe and legal a
Abortion Providers) bill (SB 1722 / HB 1411) that lists over 10 medically unnecessary and burdensome government regulations and mandatory reporting
to restrict women's
access to safe and legal
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His plan (which mentions
restricting access to «
abortion» nine times) includes an expansion of the harmful Hyde Amendment.
She has tirelessly challenged attempts
to restrict abortion care
access and
to strip Medicaid from patients.
Nine states currently ban or
restrict abortion providers or affiliated organizations like Planned Parenthood from receiving public funds, and thirteen states
restrict access to emergency contraception.
In contrast
to New York, the US Congress has singled out certain classes of women (low - income women, federal employees, military personnel serving overseas, residents of the District of Columbia, and women in federal prisons) and
restricted their
access to legal
abortions because their health care is funded in part by the federal government.
that severely compromises women's health by
restricting access to family planning, cancer screenings, preventive care, and safe and legal
abortion.
Preventing women from
accessing family planning services doesn't merely deprive them of reproductive agency: Where
abortion is illegal or heavily
restricted, preventing women from obtaining contraception is potentially life threatening since many women opt
to terminate unwanted pregnancies illegally.
Today, we're asking a federal court
to prevent the state from this plainly political attempt
to restrict women's
access to safe and legal
abortion,» said Stephanie Kight, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.
Politicians in Washington and across the country have made it clear that they are willing
to sacrifice women's health in order
to restrict women's
access to contraception and
abortion.