Sentences with phrase «restrictions on abortion»

Advocate public policies which guarantee the right to full and nondiscriminatory access to reproductive health care and defend against restrictions on abortion and health care access;

States continued their assault on abortion in 2017, with 19 states adopting 63 new restrictions on abortion rights and access.

Donovan MK, In real life: federal restrictions on abortion coverage and the women they impact, Guttmacher Policy Review, 2017, 20: 1 — 7, https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/01/real-life-federal-restrictions-abortion-coverage-and-women-they-impact.

Ms. Butler will be squaring off against Mary Hamway and Maria Syms, both of whom support heavy restrictions on abortion.

That «clinic regulation» they speak of is actually called targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP) laws.

Restrictions on abortion and other reproductive health care — including blocking access to preventive health care at Planned Parenthood — have very real consequences for women:

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.

Those provisions are two of the most common types of targeted restrictions on abortion providers (TRAP):

Pence championed tight restrictions on abortion, including an Indiana law that declared «miscarried or aborted fetus must be interred or cremated.»

Annapolis, MD - Monday, April 9, 2012 marked the end of the 430th Maryland Legislative Session, and Planned Parenthood of Maryland (PPM) is celebrating the defeat of four bills that would have added medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion.

The RHRA then focused on ensuring that Kenya's new constitution expanded women's rights and imposed no new restrictions on abortion.

On the same day, the current justice minister introduced legislation to scrub the Criminal Code of the last remnant of Canada's restrictions on abortion.

Federal appeals court rules that Texas can begin enforcing restrictions on abortion clinics, Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court blocks certain restrictions on abortion contained in Texas state law, Reuters

These results suggest that only 9 % of Americans support the existing abortion regime under Roe, which permits essentially no restrictions on abortion even in the third trimester.

Since 2010, the United States has witnessed a dramatic expansion of state - based restrictions on abortion.

The bishops proved their power in the House, when, following direct negotiations with the House Speaker, they forced House Democratic leaders to allow a vote on the Stupak amendment, which introduced firmer restrictions on abortion funding.

Mr. Rosenbaum, who has long represented the more liberal wing of the party, opposes any restrictions on abortion.

And as both federal and state legislators grapple with increased restrictions on abortion, a new national poll indicates Americans have mixed reactions to some of the moves being made right now in state houses and the nation's capital.

The House of Representatives voted to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all of the U.S. states had unconstitutional restrictions on abortion — despite the U.S. Constitution being silent on the subject.

3) In the late 1960s and early 1970s, most U.S. states loosened restrictions on abortion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.

Articulating the conservative transhumanist case for more restrictions on abortion, or conversely why conservatives should defend abortion rights, would be pretty important.

A majority of the states, he noted, have had restrictions on abortion going back a hundred years, all of which suggested powerfully that the Fourteenth Amendment was never understood to entail a right to an abortion.

Despite our shifts away from pro-life and pro-choice labels, many Americans essentially conceptualize the issue the same way, with abortion rights seen as favoring the woman and restrictions on abortion as favoring the baby.

This last claim is the lynchpin on which a host of new, successful state restrictions on abortion hinge.

In the past three years, states passed 205 restrictions on abortion — more than what passed in the entire previous decade.

Strange that Canada has a lower abortion rate than the US when Canada has a lower rate of religion (your post confirms it) and has ZERO restrictions on abortion (unlike the US).

Using this data, the team found that supporters of abortion on demand had, on average, fewer than two kids for every 2.5 born to parents who favored legal restrictions on abortion.

Despite having a higher proportion of atheists and agnostics (and no restrictions on abortion unlike the US), the abortion rate is MUCH LOWER in Canada.

Statistics indicate that Americans, especially younger Americans, favor some restrictions on abortion, and a record number of millennials think abortion should be illegal altogether.

Placing more restrictions on abortion is exactly what anti-choice zealots do to attempt to prevent abortion at all costs.

Since the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Morgentaler (1988) holding even relatively minor criminal code restrictions on abortion contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (on similar» and similarly spurious» grounds as those of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade), Canada has been without restrictions on abortion.

Canada has a much lower abortion rate with a higher atheist / agnostic rate than the US (and there are NO restrictions on abortion in Canada).

So, with those considerations in mind, I think it's safer to say that while legal restrictions on abortion might put a dent in the abortion rate, they won't put an end to abortion as we know it, and, most importantly, they won't do a thing to alter the number of unwanted pregnancies.

Perhaps the most politically volatile coming Supreme Court case is Whole Woman's Health v. Lakey, which will decide whether dozens of abortion clinics throughout Texas can remain open — a decision that probably will affect other conservative states that have in recent years imposed harsh restrictions on abortion clinics.

Earlier this month, the Texas legislature approved a loudly - debated package of restrictions on abortions in the Lone Star State; among other things, requiring abortion clinics to bring their facilities in line with surgical standards and banning abortions after 20 weeks.

Her challenge shakes things up for Democrats who lean pro-life or support certain restrictions on abortions — including her Catholic running mate Tim Kaine.

They have been passing new restrictions on abortions ever since.

They offer nothing but more tax cuts for the wealthy and restrictions on abortions.

(CNN)-- Her quest to stop a bill placing new restrictions on abortions may have been stymied, but Texas Sen. Wendy Davis is seeing an upside: a spike in fundraising.

The law also imposes certain restrictions on abortions and abortion providers.

Six of these states (AL, ID, IN, KS, MO and OK), all of which adopted restrictions on abortions performed later in pregnancy (see above), moved to require abortion providers to report a diagnosis when an abortion is performed at or beyond 20 weeks» gestation.

This is the first time that the Supreme Court has ever upheld a restriction on abortion without a health exception.

President's Final Budget Misses Opportunity to Strike the Hyde Amendment's Restriction on Abortion Coverage, RHTP (Feb. 9, 2016)

Not exact matches

The Afton, Minnesota, resident penned a scathing response to two anti-abortion letters published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune following the Supreme Court ruling on June 27 striking down abortion restrictions in Texas.

It seems to make more sense for Republicans to focus policy proposals on parental rights and restrictions on late - term abortion while noting that - whatever their ultimate beliefs - some abortion restrictions are very unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future while third trimester abortion on - demand is a reality.

The median voter will be somewhere on the spectrum of abortion restrictions.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.