Sentences with phrase «women have access to health care»

The proposal was praised by Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts, with the group's CEO saying it would help ensure women have access to health care.
«Beyond affordable birth control, there is a need to invest in family planning programs that promote prevention and reduce the number of unintended pregnancies by ensuring every woman has access to health care and every teen gets the information she needs to make responsible decisions.»

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They have no access to education or health care or, in many cases, equal rights for women
Women who work for them don't have the same rights & access to health care?
«I think it's fair to say that while there are those who take issue with the decision, millions of American women will have access to preventive services, as they should, appropriately, through the health care reform bill,» Carney said.
When I heard Hillary Clinton's statement at the recent 2015 Women in the World Summit that «Deep - seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed» for the sake of giving women access to «reproductive health care and safe childbirth,» at first I was confWomen in the World Summit that «Deep - seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed» for the sake of giving women access to «reproductive health care and safe childbirth,» at first I was confwomen access to «reproductive health care and safe childbirth,» at first I was confused.
The general consensus in this country is that women should have access to proper medical care when deciding (with their doctor) how to maintain their own health.
«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.
Our African woman will use the rhythm method for contraception as she has no access to a health care facility that may provide her with other options.
If all women in the US had access to high quality health care, the maternal death rate in the US would probably be 2/3 or half of what it is today.
It is the vision of PSI that every woman and family worldwide will have access to information, social support, and informed professional care to deal with mental health issues related to childbearing.
Rural women have poor access to health care.
Woman should have free or affordable prenatal care and access to proper health care professionals.
She wants to devote her career to providing care to women who do not always have access to health careto empower and support women who might feel powerless.
Doran also said that she knows that everyone from children to the newly retired should have access to a doctor when they need it and that's why she supports a single - payer health care system, as well as guaranteeing women's reproductive rights.
Under Governor Cuomo's direction, New York State is striving to ensure that all women have access to vital health care services during pregnancy and is undertaking a comprehensive review of clinical and systemic factors leading to maternal mortality.
Collectively, these efforts will strengthen the capacity of providers to address the mental health concerns of their pregnant and postpartum patients, so that women at risk or already suffering from maternal depression will have better health and access to care.
Today, it is estimated that roughly half of all women living in developing countries do not have access to adequate basic maternal health care and that 220 million have an unmet need for family planning.
«Chris Gibson has consistently taken votes to undermine and threaten women's health and to limit access to affordable reproductive health care for low - income women
«New York continues to lead the nation in taking action to ensure that New York women have full access to health care,» Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo said.
President Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress have said they will repeal the health care act as soon as possible, and that is why New York must act fast to ensure women's access to coverage and care, Cuomo said.
«These regulatory actions will help ensure that whatever happens at the federal level, women in our state will have cost - free access to reproductive health care and we hope these actions serve as a model for equality across the nation,» Cuomo said.
Conlin went on to cite Democratic AG contender Eric Schneiderman's record on choice, saying he has «made it clear in word and deed that he supports a woman's right to access reproductive health care
«Strong and united women leaders are a force and together we will bring important pro-women reforms that Senate Republicans have blocked for too long, including protecting women's access to health care and fighting for victims of sexual abuse and harassment.
«The people of District 16 have been fortunate to be represented by Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, who has long been an advocate for access to all reproductive health care and a true champion for women's rights.»
The senator said he has co-sponsored a variety of laws that have improved access to health care for women throughout his career.
Schneiderman said the measure «threatens to slash essential health care services for millions of New Yorkers who need them the most» and would unconstitutionally «deny women access to reproductive health care
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.»
«I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care
Reich's findings suggest women with more time, education, and resources claim greater freedom to reject public health interventions, which potentially carries consequences for undervaccinated children from lower income backgrounds who may not have access to care.
«Research has long suggested people with heart disease in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to access to health care and longevity,» says Dr. Sacha Bhatia, lead author of the study and a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital.
Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.
For more than 45 years, Planned Parenthood Global has been working overseas to ensure that women, men, and young people in some of the world's most neglected areas have access to the health care they need to control their bodies and their futures.
Began work on building a new hospital in Bamyan Province in Afghanistan that will add 86 beds for pediatric, obstetric and gynecologic care in a region where women have had little access to health care
Through the work of our non-profit foundation Planeterra, we have launched and supported 50 projects globally, which are helping give men, women and children greater access to education, health care and sustainable income that honours their traditional way of life.
We won't achieve the sustainable peace we're seeking if women don't have access to basic human rights like health care, food and education.
Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.
As Mexico has been designated as a so - called «safe» country, this woman will not only have no access to any prenatal care, she will also not have health coverage for the delivery of her child, or postnatal care.
She has also been a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she worked on two trials challenging a Texas law limiting women's access to reproductive health care.
Just in the last two months, Arizona has taken two CAP bills all the way to the Supreme Court, where they were refused review: HB 2036, the 20 - week abortion ban, and HB 2800, which attempted to deny women with Medicaid coverage the right to access health care services at a provider of their choosing.
We object to the continued funding of fiscally irresponsible abstinence - only programs that have been proven ineffective, while ignoring calls for increased funding for the programs that have been proven to work and help millions of women across the country get access to basic health care, including affordable birth control.
For too long, women have been denied full access to their right of making their own health care decisions — Planned Parenthood affords them that right.
For instance, a recent analysis of state - published data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drastically.
The Tennessee State Legislature has doubled down on efforts to restrict a woman's right to safe, legal abortion and equal access to affordable reproductive health care.
The Medicaid program would be gutted, which approximately 1 in 4 women of reproductive age rely on to access no - cost, critical reproductive health care such as birth control, lifesaving cancer screenings, and maternity care.
«It's about whether low - income women in Texas have access to the health care that other Texans do.
His budget would protect the essential care provided by Medicaid and lift barriers to access to reproductive health care for women.
Through this one bill, Florida would strip many women of their access to basic health care, such as cancer screenings, birth control, and abortion.
Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) has provided access to sexual and reproductive health care to women, men, and families since 1935.
Without Planned Parenthood health centers, many of these patients may have no other place to turn to access safe and legal abortion — or preventive care like birth control, well - woman exams, and lifesaving cancer and STD screenings.
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