Sentences with phrase «similar abortion restrictions»
States across the country have moved toward similar abortion restrictions in recent years, with Texas upholding its own «fetal pain» law despite state senator Wendy Davis's filibuster making national news in 2013.
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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.
As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»
A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.
In a rare victory for supporters of abortion rights in 2011, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) vetoed a similar restriction in April.
Similar restrictions on medication abortion passed but have been blocked by court order in Arizona, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.