Sentences with phrase «safety nets for women»

With government trying to control reproductive rights, taking away safety nets for women and families, and even some of the rhetoric on women's ability to vote.

But all too often we hear nice words from the government at the same time as their actions slash the safety net for women affected by gender - based violence.

Anita R. McFarlane, MPH, Komen's Greater NYC Director of Grants & Public Policy stated, «Sisters United in Health, is a vital safety net for women who may otherwise slip through the medical cracks.

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Only a self - destructive person would vote for someone who plans to remove the safety net, legislate against women, and whose party has done everything it could to suppress the vote.

Prepared for the New York Women's Foundation, this brief finds that three years of state budget cuts have frayed the safety net during a time of growing need, making it harder for low - income women to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a fuWomen's Foundation, this brief finds that three years of state budget cuts have frayed the safety net during a time of growing need, making it harder for low - income women to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a fuwomen to access income and job supports as well as vital supportive services, and to secure jobs with a future.

From 6 to 8 p.m. at Fordham Law School, The Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center and the Women's City Club of New York will host «This Bridge Called My Back: Women of Color and the Fight for Economic Security», on «how gender intersects with economic and racial inequality in New York City.»

I sense this is more common now, certainly for my daughters, but I wonder how true it is for women in poverty or with less education, in America at least where there is no social safety net compared to Europe.

Many low — income women obtain reproductive care at safety - net clinics that receive public funds to pay for the care they provide.

In reality, although they have become increasingly important sources of publicly funded contraceptive care, FQHCs could not readily serve all the women who rely on Planned Parenthood (see «Federally Qualified Health Centers: Vital Sources of Care, No Substitute for the Family Planning Safety Net,» 2017).

An abundance of evidence demonstrates how important Planned Parenthood health centers are for a large proportion of women who need publicly funded family planning services (see «Understanding Planned Parenthood's Critical Role in the Nation's Family Planning Safety Net,» 2017).

Proponents of such restrictions are ultimately seeking to make abortion inaccessible for U.S. women, and so are seeking to shutter Planned Parenthood health centers and any safety - net health center providing publicly funded family planning services that additionally offers abortions (using other funds), or is affiliated with an abortion provider.

Policies excluding Planned Parenthood from the family planning safety net disregard the facts and would have negative consequences for women nationwide.

We are writing in response to your inquiry for updated data on the availability of contraceptive care from safety - net family planning centers in the United States, particularly the role of Planned Parenthood in meeting women's need for publicly funded contraceptive care.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), praised Senator Barack Obama (D - IL) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D - MO) for introducing The Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, which would fix the affordable birth control crisis affecting college health clinics and safety - net providers and restore affordable birth control pricing for college students and low - income women.

Studies show that Planned Parenthood health centers are critical to the health care safety net, delivering irreplaceable high - quality contraceptive care to a majority of women who rely on public funds for health care.

After shredding the health care safety net for low - income and uninsured women in 2011, it's outrageous that far - right politicians are working to virtually ban access to safe, legal medical care in Texas.»

Although proponents of defunding Planned Parenthood argue that other providers — namely health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs)-- would easily be able to fill the overwhelming hole torn in the safety net, evidence suggests otherwise.1 Planned Parenthood health centers consistently perform better than other types of publicly funded family planning providers on key indicators of accessibility and quality of contraceptive care.2 Plus, Planned Parenthood serves a greater share of women who obtain contraceptive care from safety - net health centers.3 And in some communities and for many women, Planned Parenthood is the predominant source of publicly funded contraceptive care.4 It is simply unrealistic to expect other providers to readily step up and restore the gravely diminished capacity of the family planning safety net were Planned Parenthood defunded.

The program builds and reinforces key service partnerships between health professionals around the care of perinatal women, including creating a safety net for vulnerable pregnant women.

In 332 counties across the country, Planned Parenthood served at least half of the women who rely on safety net programs like Medicaid and Title X for their birth control.

The Title X national family planning program's ability to yield significant health and economic benefits for women, families and society relies on a diverse network of safety - net providers — a network that should include, but can not be limited to, FQHC sites.

In order to respond, we have expanded upon the analysis that we conducted in response to your April 7, 2017 request for information concerning the availability of publicly funded contraceptive care to U.S. women, particularly from sites operated by Planned Parenthood and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs).1 In this analysis, we assume that all the clients seeking contraceptive care who are currently served by Planned Parenthood health centers in each state would be distributed to other types of safety - net family planning centers in the same proportions that contraceptive clients are currently served by each of these other types of centers.

Principle seven: Mainstream law as a safety net HREOC considers that the need to ensure women's safety and freedom from violence must be a priority for any system of recognition of Aboriginal customary law.