It will ensure that a woman serving in the Peace Corps has
the same access to abortion if she is the victim of rape or incest, or when her life is endangered, as women in the armed services and many other women covered by federal health programs,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
You have the exact
same access to abortion today as you did on Election Day.
Not exact matches
The response of the last government was essentially more of the
same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier
access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
maintained that the law is at odds with developmental science in treating adolescent abilities as developing in the
same way for cognitive and social abilities, particularly with regard
to access to abortion and the juvenile death penalty for murder.
It takes a key step
to ensure that a woman serving in the Peace Corps has the
same rights and
access to abortion in cases when she is the victim of rape or when her life is endangered as are afforded women in the armed services and many other women covered by federal health programs.
Because of an increasingly restrictive legal environment and clinic closures across the country,
abortion patients are facing new barriers
to care, including the need
to travel greater distances
to access services.2, 20 Overcoming these challenges can be difficult or impossible, especially given that 75 % of
abortion patients are low - income, and 59 % have already had a child and may have other family obligations.21 Whether a provider offers
same - day contraceptive services is irrelevant if a patient can not
access abortion care in the first place.