Sentences with phrase «women seeking abortion care»

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

«Our study gives further insight into the ways that the clinic closures due to Texas's restrictive law resulted in an undue burden on women seeking access to abortion care in Texas,» said Daniel Grossman, MD, an investigator with TxPEP and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at UC San Francisco.

Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have forced the closure of abortion clinics that didn't meet strict requirements — requirements the justices decided (by a 5 - to - 3 margin) didn't make women any safer and put an undue burden on their constitutional right to seek safe and legal medical care.

These bills provide a roadmap for state policymakers seeking to fight government interference within the patient - provider relationship, promote women - centered approaches in the provision of abortion and other reproductive health care services, and enact legislation that emphasizes the need to expand access to abortion.

The study also finds that adolescents seeking care for complications from miscarriage or unsafe clandestine abortion experience severe complications at the same rate as older women (one severe complication per every four complications).

At least half of the women in her clinic seeking abortion care had been using contraception when they got pregnant; therefore, she claims, Planned Parenthood may be good at providing birth control «to the masses» but not at providing good contraceptive and related education.

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.

It drives poor women to risk death and injury by seeking unsafe abortion care from unskilled providers.

Subsequent to alerting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Planned Parenthood learned the identify of one of those involved and believes these visits are likely a hoax by opponents of legal abortion seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood, which delivers preventive health care and abortion services to three million women each year.

This bill goes even further, seeking to limit American women's access to abortion and no - cost birth control and blocking implementation of the groundbreaking provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Online Documentary: Fazeelat Aslam, VICE.com, for her piece, «Misconception: The Fake Abortion Clinics of America» on VICE.com, which exposed the false information perpetuated by so - called «crisis pregnancy centers» and the harm they can do to women seeking care and the broader reproductive rights movement as a whole.

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.

The increased number of attacks on access to safe, legal abortion and to care at Planned Parenthood health centers shows that it's not just Donald Trump who's talking about punishing women who seek abortion care.