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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
These laws therefore
restrict the use of telemedicine in the case of
abortion and reduce
access to abortion services in rural areas.
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.