Sentences with phrase «women access to family planning services»

Some abortion opponents, however, take issue with the argument that the policy denies women access to family planning services.

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«In our experience as a leading provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare in many countries around the world, we know that women not only need but desperately want access to family planning services and information.

Beyond health care, she supports investments in «cradle - to - career» education to ensure the U.S. can compete in a global economy, ensuring women have access to family planning and health services and listening to scientists by recognizing that climate change is a «critical challenge.»

Another part of the goal is to ensure that women everywhere have access to family planning services, as this reduces the number of unplanned and potentially complicated pregnancies — especially in adolescent and older women.

Around 20 million women in the U.S. today lack access to reproductive health and family planning services.

The state is the first to implement such a law, a bold move at a time when many federal and state politicians throughout the country are taking action to restrict women's access to contraception, such as defunding Planned Parenthood — a major provider a family planning health care services in the U.S. — and attempting to block a provision in the Affordable Care Act that mandates health insurance companies cover the cost of contraceptives.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the British government today (World Population Day) have been hosting a London Summit on Family Planning, aimed at expanding access to contraception and related health services for women, particularly in poor urban communities, who want more control over the size of their families.

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that if all women who wanted to avoid pregnancy had access to family planning services, unplanned pregnancies would fall by 71 % from 75 million to 22 million per year.

It also means that we need a crash program to get reproductive health care and birth control services to the more than 200 million women today who want to plan their families but lack access to the means to do so.

Additionally, increasing access to family planning services can help women make decisions that are best for themselves and their families.

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PPFA President Cecile Richards issued the following statement on the news of the resignation — and the interim appointment of Evelyn Kappeler to oversee Title X. «On behalf of the more than 17 million women who need access to publicly funded family planning services, Planned Parenthood calls on the Bush administration to do the right thing and appoint a truly qualified women's health advocate and expert to this critical post.

The measures being pushed by the extreme right in Congress would shatter the nation's family planning infrastructure and take away many women's current access to lifesaving cancer screening, annual exams, STD testing, and other basic health services.

The final budget for Title X, the nation's family planning program, will be $ 299.9 million dollars this year, and will provide millions of women and families access to family planning and prevention services.

«Eliminating vital preventive programs like the national family planning program and attacking women's health providers will mean that millions of women would lose access to basic, preventive health services, and those are economic issues for millions of families.»

On April 11, Texas Planned Parenthood family planning providers who do not perform abortions filed suit against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in federal court in order to protect Texan women's access to basic, preventive health sServices Commission (HHSC) in federal court in order to protect Texan women's access to basic, preventive health servicesservices.

«For many women, Massachusetts» investment in family planning services makes the difference between having access to cancer screenings and birth control and forgoing health care altogether,» Dr. Jennifer Childs - Roshak, president and CEO of PPLM, said.

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This is $ 16.8 million more than the FY2006 — 2007 funding level, and will provide tens of thousands more women and families access to family planning and prevention services.

«Their commitment to providing access to affordable reproductive health care and family planning services demonstrates their sheer dedication to the women, teens and families in their communities across the nation.»

The Prevention First Act will help women and couples plan their families and their futures by expanding access to critically needed affordable family planning education and reproductive health care services.

Indeed, CAI is among 12 women's health contractors operating 22 clinics statewide that have been completely defunded as a result of last year's April Fools» Day slashing by Texas lawmakers of the family - planning budget traditionally used to provide low - income and uninsured women with access to health services.

«During this economic downturn, many women and families are struggling to make ends meet, and are relying on women's health and family planning centers for access to essential health care services such as breast exams, other cancer and disease screenings, contraception and more.

«As essential community providers, we understand firsthand what happens when patients can not access the preventive services they need,» said Lynda Sampson, chair of the MA Family Planning Association and director of Family Planning at Citizens for Citizens, Inc. «Not only do these cuts deprive low - income women the ability to access the basic health care they need and deserve, these cuts are counter to Governor Baker's goal to reduce government spending.»

«As the nation's leading advocate and provider of women's health care, including reproductive health services, we see every day that the best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning programs and ensure more women and families have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education programs,» said Richards.

The independent Guttmacher study assessed each state's commitment to helping women avoid unintended pregnancy by measuring access to contraception; laws and policies that either facilitate or hinder access to birth control and family planning information; and public funding for family planning and services between 1994 and 2001.

We strongly support the continued funding for Planned Parenthood and ensuring access for all women to ongoing well - woman's health care, including family planning services.»

The anniversary of the benefit comes just as the Guttmacher Institute releases new data showing that giving women access to affordable birth control, through publicly funded family planning services, helped prevent 2.2 million unintended pregnancies in 2010, which would have resulted in 1.1 million unplanned births and 760,000 abortions.

■ By providing millions of women with access to contraceptive services they want and need, publicly funded family planning in 2010 helped women to avoid 2.2 million unintended pregnancies.

Preventing women from accessing family planning services doesn't merely deprive them of reproductive agency: Where abortion is illegal or heavily restricted, preventing women from obtaining contraception is potentially life threatening since many women opt to terminate unwanted pregnancies illegally.