Sentences with phrase «woman seeking an abortion»

In fact, banning abortion may actually have an adverse effect on reducing the number of women seeking abortions.

A law requiring women seeking an abortion to make three visits to the doctor over two days.

We, as a society, must take away as many of the reasons women seek abortions as possible.

Women seeking abortions do so under a regime written and enforced by the courts.

The law signed today creates several new, onerous obstacles for women seeking abortion care that have no basis in medicine.

Tallahassee, FL — Today on behalf of four women's health care centers and two individual physicians, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood Federation of America asked a federal court to strike down a new law that will endanger the health and lives of young women seeking abortions in Florida.

It also affirmed that states can not pass sham restrictions on abortion: Less than one day after issuing the Whole Woman's Health ruling, the Supreme Court refused to review similar clinic shutdown laws from Mississippi and Wisconsin that imposed an undue burden on women seeking abortions.

He signed legislation this spring making Indiana only the second state in the nation to ban abortions in cases where women seek the abortion after learning the fetus has a disability.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (PPMNS) applaud today's decision by the U.S. District Court in South Dakota striking down major portions of a South Dakota law that required doctors to give ideologically charged and misleading information to women seeking abortion care.

Texas lawmakers hope so with the new Sonogram Law which outlines how doctors must deal with woman seeking abortions.

Any attempt to pursue the doctors prescribing the «cocktail» would likely result merely in the emergence of a black market or of a charade in which women seeking abortions would report the symptoms of the diseases for which the ingredients are currently and legally prescribed.

Given that 70 + % of all abortions in the USA are had by believers, it is obvious that religion is failing miserably at eliminating the reasons why women seek abortions.

Essentially, according to the researchers, making abortion illegal does not make it less prevalent in many parts of the world, meaning women seeking abortions will have them performed illegally if they want the procedure.

Pro-lifers do realize that many women seek abortion due to economic hardship.

For far too long, the United States has penalized low - income women seeking abortion — forcing those already struggling to make ends meet to pay the biggest proportion of her income for safe, legal care.

The June Coleman Fund is available for women seeking abortion services with a household income less than 250 % of the Federal Poverty Index, but not on a Maryland Medicaid plan.

Meanwhile, the White House has set up a government office with the intent to allow discrimination against women seeking abortion.

«Their crusades to shut down reproductive health centers and to mandate costly and invasive medical procedures for women seeking abortions have embarrassed the Commonwealth, and have inserted government between doctors and their patients.»

«Kentucky faces a perfect storm of attacks: A legislature that continues to pass ever more onerous restrictions on women seeking a abortion, a governor with a personal personal crusade to shut down every clinic in the state, and escalating protests that recently culminated in a blockade that prevented patients from entering the front door.

«The mortality rate decreases radically when abortion is legalized, because women seek abortions in a safe, medical environment,» said Barroso.

This is pretty surprising, since most often we think of women seeking abortions as single, scared and coerced by some withdrawn male.

The law, recently enacted in Texas, where women seeking an abortion are required to be raped, is one example of these «abortion prevention» measures.

But should a pro-lifer raise her voice, use vivid language, or, heck, even pray in front of an abortion clinic, she will often be accused of intimidation and of posing a threat to the safety of women seeking abortions and those who provide them.

President Obama believes we should be working together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.

In his 2009 Notre Dame address, Obama called upon abortion rights supporters and opponents to «work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions.»

Since taking office in 2000, Perry has signed laws mandating parental consent for minor girls who want an abortion, slashing state funds for Planned Parenthood and requiring a woman seeking an abortion to first view a sonogram of her fetus.

«So let's work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term,» Obama said to applause.

Yet DFS offers no estimate of how much, nor does it document how much of an obstacle copayments have been for women seeking abortions.

Ann Winterton put forward a bill to introduce a mandatory seven - day «cooling off» period for any woman seeking an abortion.

Currently most NHS abortions are carried out by two charities BPAS and Marie Stopes International who also provide counselling to women seeking an abortion.

This week, MPs will vote on an amendment tabled by Dorries and Field that would give the NHS a duty to provide independent counselling to women seeking an abortion, from organisations that do not themselves provide abortions.

The most common of these are informed consent statutes, which require that a woman seeking an abortion receive a state - authored informational packet before the abortion procedure can be performed.

Women seeking an abortion in Virginia may soon have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound scan beforehand — is the intention to inform or stigmatise them?

In the abortion context, for example, the Court has allowed state and federal governments to provide money to poor women who carry their pregnancies to term but to deny it to women seeking an abortion.

Walker will review a bill in the next two weeks that would require a woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound.

«He said it happened in the first year he was on the bench, and he said it was a tough decision to write because he had to decide what was an «undue burden» on a woman seeking an abortion,» Mr. Durbin said.

According to the Court, unnecessary health regulations that have the purpose or effect of presenting a substantial obstacle to a woman seeking an abortion impose an undue burden.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds Florida Governor Charlie Crist for putting common sense ahead of ideology and vetoing HB 1143, which would have mandated that every woman seeking an abortion in Florida undergo an ultrasound of her fetus.

This is true for STIs, but it's also true for women seeking abortion.

The new provisions in South Dakota and Arizona also require abortion providers to assess whether women seeking an abortion have been subject to coercion.