The Trump Administration is working to roll back protections that have helped 62.4 million
women access birth control by guaranteeing that it is covered in all health insurance plans.
Representative Pence's proposals would bar Planned Parenthood from delivering care through federal programs like Medicaid that help millions of
women access birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, immunizations, HIV testing, and testing and treatment for other STIs.
Not exact matches
She also discussed some of the
women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and
access to
birth control and safe abortion.
It estimates that some 6 million
women in the Philippines — including 2 million who are poor — don't currently have
access to
birth control.
If Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gets his way, some millions of Filipino
women could soon have
access to free
birth control and other reproductive health - related services.
What do the Seer Stones of the Mormon faith say about stem cell research or a
woman's
access to
birth control?
The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting
women's
access to
birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).
Planned Parenthood give
access to
birth control to poor
women.
Conservatives don't want
women to have
access to
birth control... and if they get pregnant, they don't want those
women to have abortions.
No one is saying that
woman should be barred from
access to
birth control.
All
women should have equal
access to
birth control for whatever reason they need it or want it.
In non-western worlds, in 3rd world countries
women are still used as slaves, their property of men,
women do not have
access to contraception, to give
birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouses.
When that happens without
access to
birth control,
women end up pregnant.
In Guttmacher's analysis, they found that the decline of abortions is because of the availability of effective, affordable
birth control and the abortion restrictions that have limited
women's
access.
I try not to put too much pressure on myself to speak up as the token «Christian feminist» on issues like these, but after reading multiple blog posts and articles this week from Christian men about
women and contraception, I decided to add my two cents as a pro-life
woman of faith who supports affordable
access to
birth control for
women.
Honestly, it is surprising that it took insurance companies this long to wake up to the fact that they are paying either way — for the c - sections that don't get done when they should, those that get done poorly (regardless of whether they were necessary) or when a
woman is denied
access to a vaginal
birth after cesarean, which is happening more and more...
Ashley at Let Me Entertain You is concerned about
women's rights and wrote yesterday about a proposed regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services «that could seriously undermine
access to basic reproductive health services, including
birth control and abortion.»
Women need to be allowed to choose how they
birth, we should feel for those who have no choice, but that works both ways, those who have no
access to medical care, and those forced to give
birth in a hospital surrounded by strangers and machines.
Let's just support the right to choose, the right for all
women to be able to
access any medical care she needs to support her choice for
birth — and support
women who are grieving all over the world at home, in hospitals and many other places for their babies who didn't make it.
While not everyone will have
access to a
birth center or a home
birth because of where you live or because of medical conditions, these are potentially safe options for low - risk
women with qualified providers.
Prepare for pregnancy,
birth and parenting: A lot of remote communities in Bangladesh haven't had
access to health workers or authoritative health information to help
women in the community to prepare for pregnancy,
birth and parenting.
«But a lot of the sentiment you're covering with that criticism also sets aside the feelings of many
women that
birth and baby care has become over-medicalized, that their experiences and understandings are routinely swept aside, and that they've been denied
access to, or discouraged from, more traditional ways of doing things in situations where it would harm no one and might have been the better option.»
Men don't owe
women anything in marriage, not refraining from violence, not
access to
birth control, not help with the children, nothing.
Dr. Fisher believes that dispassionate, rigorous study of
birth across all settings is more important than ever given disparities in
women's
access to trained and licensed care providers, current and future physician workforce issues, rising costs of health care, and unacceptably high rates of adverse outcomes for mothers and infants in the U.S. compared to other industrialized countries.
At the first Summit, delegates agreed that healthy
women with healthy pregnancies who desire a planned home
birth should be able to
access a maternity care professional within an organized system that provides transfer to hospital - based services when needed.
The national survey from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of more than 20,000
women, across 133 NHS trusts in England, put the results down to improvement in
access to midwives, choice of where to give
birth and the quality of information given.
For healthy pregnant
women who joyfully anticipate this long awaited event, excited to fully experience it, to actively participate, prepared to be transformed, where can they
access encouragement, guidance and support for this vision of
birth?
The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live
births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live
births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live
births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all
women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that
women need
access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.
I'm here to serve
women who choose nonhospital
birth even though they know that it is not as safe, and my ability to manage complications is very limited compared to what she would have
access to in a hospital.»
We're not saying that
birth is or should be scary to
women who have no extraordinary risk factors and
access to proper care.
Women who choose midwifery - led care and home
birth may have difficulty
accessing these services in the first place, and if they do secure the service face numerous other administrative obstacles that the HSE needs to resolve..
The majority of pregnant
women are able to
access midwifery care in a hospital,
birth center, and / or home environment.
Childbirth in a medical
birth center means that a
woman has
access to pain medication during her labor and delivery if she chooses to avail herself of it, labor will be induced if the doctor doesn't feel it is going along as it should, and the mom will be hooked up to an electronic baby monitor for the entire process.
To make informed decisions,
women need
access to evidence - based information and help navigating their maternity care throughout their pregnancy and
birth journey.
Although uncommon,
access to obstetrician - led care is possible when low - risk
women have a strong preference for giving
birth under the supervision of an obstetrician.
Choices as to whether a
woman wants to move around or whether she prefers to remain in bed during the labor and whether or not she wants
access to a tub or shower are some of the things discussed in a
birth plan.
With the establishment of freestanding
birth centers,
women who opt for home
birth will have
access to certified midwives as well as appropriate medical backup and care should it become necessary.
To help you prepare for the
birth of your baby — and in those first few years — we're making it easy for you to
access The Newborn Channel programs offered at
Women & Infants Hospital.
It is also important for
women thinking about a planned home
birth to consider if they are healthy and considered low - risk and to work with a CNM, certified midwife, or physician who practices in an integrated and regulated health system; have ready
access to consultation; and have a plan for safe and quick transportation to a nearby hospital in the event of an emergency.
Although affluent and urban
women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural
women with limited
access to hospitals and poor
women who couldn't afford to give
birth in the hospitals, continued to give
birth at home.
She set up The Positive
Birth Movement (PBM), a global network of antenatal discussion groups, with the aim of improving childbirth and giving women better access to support and information, not anticipating the huge appetite among women for more positive messages about b
Birth Movement (PBM), a global network of antenatal discussion groups, with the aim of improving childbirth and giving
women better
access to support and information, not anticipating the huge appetite among
women for more positive messages about
birthbirth.
Goer has also written The Thinking
Woman's Guide to a Better
Birth, which gives pregnant
women access to the research evidence, as well as consumer education pamphlets and articles for trade, consumer, and academic periodicals; and she guest posts on Lamaze International's Science & Sensibility.
Increasing
women's
access to nonmedical interventions during labor, such as continuous labor support, also has been shown to reduce cesarean
birth rates.
Firstly all
women irrespective of where they live should have
access to the three pathways of care; supported, assisted and specialised, in the three different settings outlined in the strategy; namely at home, at an alongside
birth centre and at a specialised
birth centre.
The
birth rate drops only when
women are educated and have
access to contraception, and infant and child mortality is reduced to the point that families can expect all their children to live.
Pro-choice agencies that support a
woman's right to choice and
access to all options - while it is not essential for the potential
birth - or adoptive parents to subscribe to a particular value around abortion, it is absolutely essential that the agencies working with pregnant
women and their loved ones not be in a position of coercion based on disapproval of abortion.
Decisions about where and with whom to give
birth are not always simple, but giving
women access to good information to aid in those choices is a huge step in creating a system where all
women are able to choose the care and place of
birth that is right for them.
April 2014 — The US Midwifery Education, Regulation, and Association (US MERA) Workgroup met on April 10 - 13, 2014 to continue discussions on how to expand
access to high quality midwifery care and physiologic
birth for
women in all
birth settings in the US.
The following information has been put together for
women who have contacted AIMS Ireland regarding
accessing personal records (
birth notes), making a complaint, or a query in regards to their maternity experience.
The Buckley report's new information on the hormonal physiology of
birth makes an even clearer case for the importance of
access to culturally competent midwifery care for
women of color as a way to address the disturbing and unacceptable disparity in outcomes for mothers and babies of color.