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

Not exact matches

Even in situations where abortion is legal, the process of finding a legitimate provider is time - consuming and difficult, forcing many women — particularly those who are young, poor, and uneducated — to seek out illegal options.

As Barroso explained, the black market nature of abortions in Brazil has attracted scam artists who exploit the vulnerability of women seeking to end their pregnancies.

In addition to the health threats, women who seek an illegal abortion in Brazil are under the constant threat of criminal actioIn addition to the health threats, women who seek an illegal abortion in Brazil are under the constant threat of criminal actioin Brazil are under the constant threat of criminal action.

A disproportionate number of women who seek illegal abortions in Brazil are poor, young, and uneducated.

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

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.

But how can we end abortion if we don't examine why women seek out abortions in the first place?

Furthermore, as I became more involved in the feminist conversation (some feminists are pro-life, of course, but many are pro-choice), I began to understand some of the arguments against the criminalization of abortion, like that banning abortion does not necessarily reduce the abortion rate, that enforcing a ban on all abortions would be impossible, and that women would likely seek out abortions through unsafe, illegal procedures anyway.

Norma McCorvey, left, was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time when in 1969 she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life.

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.»

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

And several thousand women receive assistance each year to seek abortions overseas in Great Britain, though the proportion of Irish women who receive abortions is dwarfed by the abortion rate in the United Kingdom and the Unites States.

Women in these 16 states would still be able to travel to seek an abortion in another state, or seek an illegal abortion, making the impact likely less than a 10 % reduction in abortions nation - wide.

In 2007 it urged Poland «to ensure that women seeking legal abortion have access to it, and that their access is not limited by the use of the conscientious objection clause.»

Most Americans probably support the implicit moral position of mainstream Protestantism and perhaps of America's religious traditions in general: permit as few legal abortions as possible without damaging women's rights and without making it necessary for women to perform abortions on themselves or seek clandestine and possibly dangerous abortions.

In Bray v. Alexandria Women's Clinic (1993), the Court examined whether anti-abortion demonstrators could be held liable — under the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 (amended in 1985)-- of conspiring to deprive women of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate traveIn Bray v. Alexandria Women's Clinic (1993), the Court examined whether anti-abortion demonstrators could be held liable — under the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 (amended in 1985)-- of conspiring to deprive women of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate trWomen's Clinic (1993), the Court examined whether anti-abortion demonstrators could be held liable — under the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 (amended in 1985)-- of conspiring to deprive women of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate travein 1985)-- of conspiring to deprive women of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate trwomen of the equal protection of the laws by depriving women seeking abortions of their right to interstate trwomen seeking abortions of their right to interstate travel.

This means that women seeking a late term abortion in Scotland are forced to travel to England, in much the same way as their Northern Irish sisters.

Team Cuomo has been pushing the Women's Equality Party and Women's Equality Plan in an effort to highlight Astorino's opposition to allowing abortions, and Quinn sought a face to face moment Tuesday.

Seeking to join them are the Women's Equality Party started by Cuomo's campaign, the Stop Common Core Party announced by Astorino and the Life and Justice Party, a group started by Michael Carey, its gubernatorial candidate, to oppose abortion rights and advocate for disabled people in state facilities....

They also blasted his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who once signed legislation that prohibits abortion in instances where women seek to have one after discovering the fetus has a disability.

The amendment's aim is to break the stranglehold on abortion counselling of certain groups which Dorries and Field say have a financial conflict of interest in advising women seeking terminations, and open up counselling to independent counsellers.

«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.

The decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.

Upholding Texas's HB2 could have bolstered similar efforts in other states, making it much harder for women across the country to seek an abortion.

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.

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

It is of particular relevance to women's equality and access to justice for a variety of reasons, including the fear that an ICBC adjuster can read about a woman's therapeutic abortion or sexual assault history, which may in turn prevent women from seeking damages in personal injury matters.

«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.

In addition to prohibiting sexual intimacy outside of marriage between a man and a woman, TWU indicates an expectation that female students and staff will not seek abortion services while attending or working at TWU.

On Jan. 1, the Liberal government of New Brunswick eliminated a requirement that women seeking fully funded abortions in that province have the approval of two doctors (to certify that the procedure was «medically necessary»).

The proposal sought to tamper with privacy rights in order to allow more legislative restrictions on Florida women's access a safe and legal abortion.

Including the new requirements in South Dakota and Arizona, 18 states require that women seeking an abortion be given misleading information (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for Ababortion be given misleading information (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for AbortionAbortion).

Planned Parenthood Center for Choice, Inc. in Houston provides compassionate abortion services for women seeking to end a pregnancy.

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.

In Senegal, abortion is a crime, and women who seek an abortion can be imprisoned for up to five years.

We at Planned Parenthood Action Fund are all about putting Trump in his place, but the backlash against the concept of punishing abortion - seeking women is incomplete without acknowledging two points:

Women in South Dakota and any other state seeking abortion services can call 1 -800-230-PLAN to be connected to the nearest Planned Parenthood health center.

With the addition of the new requirements in Texas and North Carolina, 26 states mandate that a woman seeking an abortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that requires the woman to make two trips to the facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for Ababortion must wait a prescribed period of time between the counseling and the procedure; nine of these states require that the counseling be provided in person, a provision that requires the woman to make two trips to the facility (see Counseling and Waiting Periods for AbortionAbortion).

In June, the United States Supreme Court clearly ruled in Whole Woman's Health v Hellerstedt that the same medically unnecessary restrictions in Texas created an undue burden, which violated the constitutional rights of a patient seeking safe and legal abortioIn June, the United States Supreme Court clearly ruled in Whole Woman's Health v Hellerstedt that the same medically unnecessary restrictions in Texas created an undue burden, which violated the constitutional rights of a patient seeking safe and legal abortioin Whole Woman's Health v Hellerstedt that the same medically unnecessary restrictions in Texas created an undue burden, which violated the constitutional rights of a patient seeking safe and legal abortioin Texas created an undue burden, which violated the constitutional rights of a patient seeking safe and legal abortion.

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.

«This ordinance would have done nothing to improve the health and safety of women in St. Joseph County — instead, it would have created barriers for local women seeking safe, legal abortions,» said PPINK Vice President for Public Policy Patti Stauffer.

«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.