Sentences with phrase «restricts abortion access»
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS), represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and joined by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed suit today in Federal District Court in Sioux Falls, SD, against a new law that severely restricts abortion access.
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Olson, too, wants to restrict abortion access and sponsored a bill to defund Planned Parenthood.
Not exact matches
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.
Still, potential parallels may be emerging as states in the U.S. move to restrict access to abortion.
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.
New state - level laws restricting access to abortion likely have not contributed to the decline.
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.
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.»
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.
Clearly, strict abortion laws do not stop abortions from happening, but can make them less safe by causing delay and restricting access.
Instead of protecting women, the brief states, the law jeopardises women's health by restricting access to abortion providers.
«Official abortion rate declined in Texas after law restricted access to clinics.»
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.
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.
* Work to block legislation that restricts access to sex education, contraceptives and 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.
While we may face renewed attempts to restrict access to abortion in other parts of the country, California has constitutional protections regarding 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.»
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.
One - third of these new provisions, 43 in 19 states, sought to restrict access to abortion services.
«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.»
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.
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.
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.
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 aAbortion 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 abortionabortion.
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.
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.
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.
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.