• What It Means for Trans Mutual Aid Groups and Abortion Funds to Work Together Rewire News Group, September 25, 2023 Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, 15 states have banned abortion outright (others restrict abortion after six weeks, before. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Furthermore, of the 7,058 women entering Texas prisons in 2022 alone, 98 were pregnant . (thenation.com)
  • 2022-05-19T10:00:17-04:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvNzc3XC8yMDIyMDUxOTEwMjQxMTAxNF9oZC5qcGciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJyZXNpemUiOnsiZml0IjoiY292ZXIiLCJoZWlnaHQiOjUwNn19fQ== Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY), Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) held a news conference with reporters about abortion rights. (c-span.org)
  • Once again, conservative Kansas lawmakers made the state a battleground for abortion rights, by proposing a constitutional amendment in 2022 that would effectively negate the court's decision by explicitly amending the constitution to assert that nothing in the document guaranteed abortion rights. (motherjones.com)
  • On Friday June 24, 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned , restricting abortion access across the country . (refinery29.com)
  • But the price is still 15,000 Afghani (US$150) higher than the average price of an abortion in the United States, where before June 24 2022 abortions were legal and generally publicly accepted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Supporters of abortion rights believe that pro-life legislators in Virginia and elsewhere around the country are using retroactive regulations to get around constitutional guarantees to abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy. (reason.com)
  • Women in the study whose partners were not involved in the decision-making process reported being more confident that their decision to abort was right, compared with women whose partners were unsure about or opposed to terminating the pregnancy. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Abortion was illegal in Ireland under all circumstances until 2013, when the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act allowed for the procedure when a pregnancy posed a risk to the woman's life or when the mother was a suicide risk. (newsweek.com)
  • For those who cannot afford to travel outside the country, pregnancy carries further risk to health and the possibility of criminal penalties for getting an illegal abortion in Ireland, Amnesty said. (newsweek.com)
  • Lawsuits have been waged and courts have adjudicated, and still we seem no closer to consensus on when, where, how, and if a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy. (nymag.com)
  • A majority of Americans agree that a woman enrolled in Medicaid should have all her pregnancy-related healthcare covered by her insurance, including abortion services. (prweb.com)
  • Specifically, the bill ensures that every woman who receives her health care or insurance through the federal government will be covered for all pregnancy related services, including abortion. (prweb.com)
  • Restricting Medicaid coverage of abortion forces one in four poor women seeking abortion to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. (prweb.com)
  • A majority of Americans agree that a woman enrolled in Medicaid should have all her pregnancy-related healthcare covered by her insurance, including abortion services," said Jessica González-Rojas, Executive Director, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, referring to a new poll released by Hart Research Associates. (prweb.com)
  • Pregnant teens in Kenya face a double bind: They can be kicked out of school for getting pregnant, 13,000 are expelled every year for pregnancy-but they can also get expelled if they get caught trying to get an abortion. (bigthink.com)
  • Abortions are also a very expensive and energy consuming procedures so it's not like women are voluntarily getting abortions every other week for the mere fact to avoid their pregnancy. (bartleby.com)
  • Today, abortion is available on demand up to 12 weeks, until 18 weeks if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest and any time, with a doctor's consent, if the women's health is in danger or the foetus is severely deformed. (ipsnews.net)
  • At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can't afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America. (wmm.com)
  • In the meantime, the right to abortion will continue until 24 weeks of pregnancy, beginning on July 8th. (womensenews.org)
  • According to the Prosecutor's Office, the young woman, who lived in a rural area in the east of the country, hid her pregnancy from her relatives and had an out-of-hospital delivery in which she gave birth to a girl who was born alive and who, through the forensic examination, was estimated to be between 37 and 40 weeks of gestation. (mercopress.com)
  • Translation: To avoid pregnancy, a woman should have anal sex before vaginal sex. (thenation.com)
  • One woman experienced a pregnancy that had gone horribly wrong, and if she hadn't had an abortion, she most likely would have died. (now.org)
  • Today, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation that would make abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy illegal, with the exception of cases where the mother's life is at risk or those involving incest or rape. (forbes.com)
  • It is illegal in Northern Ireland to end a pregnancy unless it endangers the mother's life, though 65% of Northern Ireland's population supports abortion . (salon.com)
  • In Oklahoma, a complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after Jaci Statton said she was denied an abortion despite having a life-threatening pregnancy. (kfor.com)
  • There was no chance of a healthy baby, and the pregnancy was life-threatening," said Jaci Statton, an Oklahoman denied an abortion. (kfor.com)
  • During Satton's pregnancy, she said doctors at OU Health agreed she would need an abortion and should receive care, since her health was at risk. (kfor.com)
  • It furthermore calls on the authorities to present their assessment of the impact of the Constitutional Court's judgment of 22 October 2020 on the availability of pre-natal examination, in particular as it is not strictly linked to the access to lawful abortion, but also helps to make informed decisions during pregnancy related to pre-natal treatment or preparation for birth, and to ensure that it is not limited. (coe.int)
  • For women on Centrelink benefits with a healthcare card, the out-of-pocket cost of a surgical abortion starts at about $340 under 12 weeks' pregnancy and rises with each week to about $610 at 14 weeks and $1365 at 19 weeks. (smh.com.au)
  • How to end a pregnancy with abortion pills? (womenonweb.org)
  • After having had the abortion, he then forced her to take another pregnancy test to confirm she was not pregnant. (lifenews.com)
  • A year and a half after Abkhazia banned abortion, reportedly to increase the number of births, reports of women's deaths and pregnancy complications have became more numerous, while the number of babies being born has not increased. (civil.ge)
  • To decriminalise abortion in Queensland would be to make it clear once and for all that women who terminate unwanted, unplanned pregnancy are not criminals. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Women are able to get an abortion when their life is endangered by the pregnancy, or if the baby will be born with severe deformities or disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Abortion surveillance in the United States continues to provide the data necessary for examining trends in numbers and characteristics of women who obtain legal induced abortions and to increase understanding of this pregnancy outcome. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 40% of all women will end a pregnancy by abortion at some time in their reproductive lives. (medscape.com)
  • The pregnancy-associated mortality rate in the United States from 1998-2005 among women who delivered live neonates was 8.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. (medscape.com)
  • While women of every social class seek terminations, the typical woman who terminates her pregnancy is young, white, unmarried, and poor. (medscape.com)
  • Women were able to end a pregnancy prior to viability with the assistance of some medical personnel. (medscape.com)
  • Induced abortion is the intentional ending of a pregnancy by surgery or medications. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Pregnancy is confirmed before an abortion is started. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Contraception can be started immediately after an abortion done before 28 weeks of pregnancy. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For abortions done early in the pregnancy, only a local anesthetic may be needed. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Different types of dilators may be used, depending on how long the pregnancy has lasted and how many children the woman has had. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The finding, therefore, highlights the need for concerted efforts from all stakeholders to address the unmet need for contraception among women living with HIV to prevent unintended pregnancy . (bvsalud.org)
  • Estimated pregnancy, birth, abortion, and fetal loss rates among non-Hispanic white women aged 15--19 years during 2005 were substantially lower than among their non-Hispanic black and Hispanic counterparts. (cdc.gov)
  • LCMV infection during pregnancy can result in severe birth defects or even spontaneous abortion. (cdc.gov)
  • Today, a hearing was held by the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Women's Health Protection Act, that, if passed, will ensure equal opportunity for abortions and other reproductive healthcare, no matter the state the woman lives in. (marieclaire.com)
  • It is for this reason why Alabama doctor, Willie J. Parker, a panelist in favor of the Women's Health Protection Act, travels to Mississippi to perform abortions for women who would otherwise have no access to them. (marieclaire.com)
  • The Malta Women's Lobby on Wednesday urged political leaders to adopt a more sensitive approach on the issue of abortion. (timesofmalta.com)
  • Too often low-income women and young women's basic health care is traded away for political expediency. (prweb.com)
  • It's unconscionable that we have allowed politicians to take away some women's decisions just because of where they live or their income level," said Vicki Saporta, President, National Abortion Federation. (prweb.com)
  • In short, abortion is fundamental to women's equality and to people's ability to live their lives to their fullest potential. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is a monumental step backwards in the movement not only for abortion access but for women's equality. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • This act was passed in 2014 but has not taken effect due to litigation from the opposition, who are claiming that such a safety regulation would cause an "undue burden" to women's abortion access and would violate precedent set in the Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt case that struck down a similar bill in Texas (HB 2). (frc.org)
  • The day before the Supreme Court of the United States heard Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization -the case that, if it doesn't overturn Roe v. Wade (1973), will begin the unraveling of abortion as a human right-I was in the archives. (hnn.us)
  • All governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations are urged to strengthen their commitment to women's health, to deal with the health impact of unsafe abortion as a major public health concern" and "In circumstances where abortion is not against the law, such abortion should be safe. (womenonwaves.org)
  • In October 2011, Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, submitted a report to the UN General Assembly which stated: "Criminal laws penalizing and restricting induced abortion are the paradigmatic examples of impermissible barriers to the realization of women's right to health and must be eliminated. (womenonwaves.org)
  • These laws infringe women's dignity and autonomy by severely restricting decision-making by women in respect of their sexual and reproductive health" (6). (womenonwaves.org)
  • The Salvadoran state once again continues to be cruel to women who have had neither the right nor the conditions to defend themselves, said Morena Herrera, who heads the collective that defends women's rights in El Salvador, in a press release. (mercopress.com)
  • At the 2010 National NOW Conference, there was a lot of discussion about women's reproductive rights, which reminded me of why I'd decided to support abortion rights. (now.org)
  • Instead of making laws that restrict women's reproductive rights and dictate women's actions regarding unwanted or complicated pregnancies, the state should trust these women to make the right decisions for their own lives and their own bodies. (now.org)
  • I'm very grateful to people like Dr. Carhart, who defend women's right to choose and provide them with the option of having late-term abortions. (now.org)
  • While these laws will likely become less commonplace now that Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has deemed that the Constitution does not grant the right to an abortion, the architectural di-mension of abortion access and reproduc-tive healthcare remains a serious concern. (archpaper.com)
  • Motivated by the Su-preme Court decision and their larger com-mitments to abortion access and women's rights, Brown at Syracuse, Lindsay Harkema at CCNY, and Bryony Roberts at Columbia GSAPP each taught a studio that dealt with questions of reproductive justice and ar-chitecture. (archpaper.com)
  • With the Senate on track to vote today on the Women's Health Protection Act, a likely doomed bill to codify abortion access into law, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) took to the floor to rail against the legislation with the argument that if eggs belonging to certain animals are protected by law, why can't women be banned from ending unwanted pregnancies, hmm? (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • GROWING numbers of women in desperate financial straits cannot afford abortions, say women's health advocates who are running out of funds to help them. (smh.com.au)
  • Women who are really poor are finding it hard to get bulk-billed abortion services,'' said Denele Crozier, the executive officer of Women's Health NSW, the peak body for women's community health centres. (smh.com.au)
  • A women's service at Mount Druitt has twice written to the Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner, in the past 10 months, alerting her to an increased number of requests for financial aid for abortions from all over the state. (smh.com.au)
  • Some women's health centres have struck memorandums of understanding with Marie Stopes for significantly reduced rates for women in severe financial hardship. (smh.com.au)
  • Even big reductions, say to $450, is a mountain for a woman on a Centrelink benefit,'' said Margaret Kirkby, spokeswoman for the Women's Abortion Action Campaign. (smh.com.au)
  • At a women's rights conference in 1994, Democratic leadership admitted to capitulating to the Republican Party by deprioritizing abortion as part of the Clinton administration's Health Security Act . (refinery29.com)
  • Green Left Weekly's Angela Walker spoke with Anna McCormack from the Women's Abortion Rights Campaign (WARC) about the situation in Queensland. (greenleft.org.au)
  • This leads women to having to fund the abortion themselves, which can be difficult because of the social norm that it is women's job to have children and thus they do not have jobs outside of taking care of the house and the family. (wikipedia.org)
  • FCHC has had no deaths since opening in 2002, an outcome that is similar to the generally low rate of complications related to abortions performed in clinics. (reason.com)
  • Women have died , and many others have experienced life-altering complications as a result of the failure of these clinics to adhere to basic health care standards. (frc.org)
  • At least 2,600 women die from complications of unsafe abortions every year and another 21,000 are hospitalized at great cost to Kenya's cash-strapped health system. (bigthink.com)
  • In all cases, women should have access to quality services for the management of complications arising from abortion" (4). (womenonwaves.org)
  • CREHPA's study found that of 1,560 cases treated at the post-abortion care unit at Maternity Hospital from April 2004 to April 2005, 138 were for complications caused by induced abortion. (ipsnews.net)
  • However parliament dismissed the approach as discriminatory, deciding to ban abortion altogether, even in the event of serious medical complications. (civil.ge)
  • When pursuing abortions, they many times need to use uneducated midwives who do not know how to properly perform the procedure or deal with complications. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2003 (the most recent years for which data are available), 10 women died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortion. (cdc.gov)
  • Illegal abortions are unsafe and account for 13% of all maternal mortality and serious complications. (medscape.com)
  • Complications are uncommon when an abortion is done by a trained health care professional in a hospital or clinic. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In countries where abortion is legal, complications are rare. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Due to delays, women fail to access appropriate care when complications arise. (who.int)
  • Women of WEBA claim that their distress is as a result of the procedure and the lack of information presented to them regarding "post abortion syndrome" by abortion clinics and practitioners who perform these abortions. (wikipedia.org)
  • WEBA supports these women by giving them a platform of which to speak their "silenced" truths on and in many cases, helps these women attack abortion clinics and practitioners through litigation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Abortion clinics throughout the state have said compliance costs will force many of them to close and two out of 20 abortion clinics have already shut down, citing financial burdens related to the new regs. (reason.com)
  • Quigley and other supporters point to the deplorable conditions in abortion clinics such as the one run by Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia. (reason.com)
  • A total of 30 abortion clinics across several states were involved in the study, and the researchers spoke to almost 1,000 women who attended these clinics between January 2008 and December 2010. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Of these women, 667 women - who had abortions either within the first trimester or within 2 weeks under the clinics' gestational age limits - were followed for 3 years, completing semiannual phone surveys on their thoughts and feelings about their abortions. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The Supreme Court has heard arguments last week in the June Medical Services vs. Russo case on whether or not to uphold Louisiana's Unsafe Abortion Protection Act , Act 620 , which requires abortion clinics to have admitting privileges with a local hospital. (frc.org)
  • Louisiana Act 620 is not like the Texas regulation HB 2, which placed building requirements on surgical abortion clinics for the sake of emergency preparedness and included hospital admitting privileges. (frc.org)
  • Louisiana's law includes abortion clinics under the same standard as any other ambulatory surgical center in having hospital admitting privileges. (frc.org)
  • Sadly, Act 620 "was passed in 2014 in response to the extensive health and safety violations found in Louisiana abortion clinics. (frc.org)
  • With such "deficiencies" that have been ongoing for decades , emergency cases in these abortion clinics were inevitable. (frc.org)
  • To read more about the inability of these clinics to care for women, see Americans United for Life's amicus brief in the June Medical Services vs. Russo (formerly Gee ) case. (frc.org)
  • Act 620 only requires abortion clinics to have admitting privileges with a local hospital, which, according to the Louisiana Attorney General's office, three abortion clinics already have (currently there are only four abortion clinics in Louisiana). (frc.org)
  • The fact that these abortion clinics cannot comply with established health and safety standards proves that Act 620 was a necessity. (frc.org)
  • That's according to the first study to unveil disparities in distance to abortion clinics across the US, published today in The Lancet Public Health . (forbes.com)
  • Disparities in distance to abortion clinics across the US. (forbes.com)
  • The clinics included in the study performed 95% of all abortions in the US in 2014. (forbes.com)
  • While many women had abortion clinics in easy reach, those in less densely populated areas, such as Montana, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, would have to travel more than 180 miles on average. (forbes.com)
  • He told me that the results reinforced what they had anticipated - that clinics are concentrated in urban areas, but one in five women would need to travel at least 43 miles. (forbes.com)
  • Distance to clinics is not the only hurdle women face in accessing healthcare, Bearak adds. (forbes.com)
  • Let's start with the obvious: Abortions, both surgical and medical, have historically happened primarily at dedicated clinics , separate-ly from other procedures. (archpaper.com)
  • Clinics be-came the primary place for abortions after Roe v. Wade because they didn't pose the same challenges as hospi-tals, which, in addition to burdensome maintenance costs and code requirements, are often religiously affiliated and can refuse to provide abortions. (archpaper.com)
  • Additionally, and crucially, clinics can hire exclusively pro-abortion staff, mak-ing the experience more comfortable for patients and the internal working dynamics more manageable. (archpaper.com)
  • In 2013, via House Bill 2 ( HB2 ), the State of Texas passed a set of laws that increased restrictions on abortion clinics. (archpaper.com)
  • The bill also man-dated that clinics have hospital affiliation, required that medical abortions follow out-dated FDA labeling, and banned abortions after 20 weeks. (archpaper.com)
  • Five months after the law was passed, the number of abortion clinics in Texas dropped from 41 to 22 . (archpaper.com)
  • The nascent network seeks to help clinics expand in states where abortion remains legal, anticipating increased de-mand, as well as build new clinics near the border in states that have legal abortion and sit adjacent to states that don't. (archpaper.com)
  • They say women on Centrelink benefits cannot afford fees at private abortion clinics, and public hospitals must play a bigger role in providing a free service. (smh.com.au)
  • Either public hospitals must provide an abortion service or governments must further subsidise poor women to use the free-standing clinics. (smh.com.au)
  • Political leaders would have better funded and disbursed abortion clinics while Roe v. Wade was in place as opposed to leaving people in rural communities out to dry. (refinery29.com)
  • Earlier this year, Parliament passed the final part of the Government's abortion law reform programme, banning protesting outside abortion clinics. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • NSW Greens MLC Dr Mehreen Faruqi has drafted the Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2016, which will repeal all criminal offences relating to abortion, introduce rules that clarify conscientious objection and provide for the introduction of exclusion or safe access zones for women entering clinics. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Most women have to go to private abortion clinics that are located only along Queensland's east coast so, for rural and regional women, travel is an additional burden both in time and cost. (greenleft.org.au)
  • While the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade gives constitutional protection to a woman's right to an abortion, opponents are still trying to eliminate choice through multi-faceted anti-abortion legislation with unnecessary provisions. (marieclaire.com)
  • Roe v. Wade provided an essential, if not aspirational foundation - securing access to abortion as a constitutionally protected legal right rooted in the right to privacy - but even that never ensured meaningful access, especially for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, as well as people from other historically marginalized communities. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • A strong majority of Americans still support the parameters for abortion established under Roe v. Wade. (bartleby.com)
  • In 1976, only three years after Roe v. Wade became the law of the land, the Hyde Amendment was enacted with the explicit intention of denying poor individuals-those receiving Medicaid-access to abortion. (wmm.com)
  • If there had been a real commitment to the protection of women and gender marginalized people, Roe v. Wade would have been codified years ago rather than left vulnerable to the whims of the Supreme Court (Democrats have been running on the promise of codifying Roe v. Wade for decades). (refinery29.com)
  • The US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v Wade last week ended the constitutional right to abortion for women in the US. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Also essential medicines should be available, including a wide range of contraceptive methods, such as condoms and emergency contraception, medicines for abortion and for post-abortion care, and medicines, including generic medicines, for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Shaw D. Abortion and Post-abortion Care - Volume II Abortion and human rights. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Postabortion trauma syndrome" is described by anti-abortion campaigners as a common mental health problem experienced by women who choose to terminate their pregnancies. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Furthermore, comparing the mental health outcomes of women in the study who had abortions and those who carried unwanted pregnancies to term, the authors found that both groups reported similar levels of anxiety and depression, leading ANSIRH to conclude that "there do not appear to be mental health problems caused by abortion. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Lack of awareness, uneven supply of services, poverty and social taboos are just some of the barriers that women with unwanted pregnancies face. (ipsnews.net)
  • Alarmed at the egregiously wrong advice, she went to her door to make sure that the women were armed with facts rather than myths that would lead to unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. (thenation.com)
  • While most manage to access a wanted abortion , research shows, some poor American women end up carrying unwanted pregnancies to term against their will. (salon.com)
  • In 2019, the state supreme court heard a related case on abortion, ruling that the Kansas constitution provides women the right to make decisions about their bodies, including whether or not to continue their pregnancies. (motherjones.com)
  • three women with unplanned pregnancies sought urgent help from Blacktown Hospital in one week. (smh.com.au)
  • Even there she encountered difficulties, as a number of Russian doctors were refusing to terminate the pregnancies of Abkhazian women. (civil.ge)
  • Based on estimated lifetime risk, each American woman is expected to have 3.2 pregnancies, of which 2 will be a live birth, 0.7 will be an induced abortion, and 0.5 will be a miscarriage. (medscape.com)
  • In spite of the introduction of newer, more effective, and more widely available contraceptive methods, more than half of the 6 million pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are considered unplanned by the women who are pregnant. (medscape.com)
  • Each year in the United States, almost 3% of all reproductive-aged women terminate their pregnancies. (medscape.com)
  • Induced abortion does not increase risks for the fetus or woman during subsequent pregnancies. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Surgical abortion can be used for most pregnancies up to 24 weeks. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Medication abortion can be used for pregnancies that are less than 11 weeks or that are more than 15 weeks. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Results: Among 2273 women interviewed, 840 pregnancies among 673 women met inclusion criteria. (cdc.gov)
  • As we're resisting, let us also call out the complicity of the white women who made this awful moment possible, and which - make no mistake - WILL lead to the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of women, a disproportionate number of whom will be poor and/or black," she wrote. (yahoo.com)
  • Indeed, since 1974 state data show only three deaths during legal abortions. (reason.com)
  • CRR investigators found that a staggering 35% of all maternal deaths in Kenya are due to unsafe abortions. (bigthink.com)
  • The rights violations documented in this report make clear that the lack of access tosafe abortion is responsible for the deaths and health burdens of thousands of women and seriouslyundermines the quality of care both provided and received in Kenyan healthcare facilities. (bigthink.com)
  • KATHMANDU, Sep 9 2006 (IPS) - As the 21st century began, more women were dying during childbirth in Nepal than in almost any other country and it was estimated that half of maternal deaths in hospitals were caused by unsafe abortions. (ipsnews.net)
  • She also responded to claims that President Trump's Mexico City Policy - which denies federal funding to non-governmental organisations which perform abortions - will lead to the deaths of African women. (christian.org.uk)
  • In 2003, as in the previous years, deaths related to legal induced abortions occurred rarely. (cdc.gov)
  • The mortality rate related to induced abortion was 0.6 deaths per 100,000 abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Worldwide, about 13% of deaths in pregnant women are due to unsafe abortion. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Most of these deaths occur in countries where abortion is highly restricted or illegal. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 600 000 women in the developing world.1 Nearly half of these deaths occur in the African Region, a region that constitutes only 12% of the world's population and only 17% of the world's annual births. (who.int)
  • The landscape is difficult, and the challenges are dire - but this is also a time full of potential and opportunity, as people and institutions awaken to the harms of denying abortion rights. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws are under fire after an Indian woman living there died after being refused an abortion last month. (cnn.com)
  • Gerry Adams, leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein political party, said it's time for the government to legislate for abortion in certain medical cases. (cnn.com)
  • A woman holds a poster during a vigil in memory of Savita Halappanavar and in support of changes to Ireland's abortion law, in Dublin on November 17, 2012. (newsweek.com)
  • The risk to a woman's health isn't considered a risk to her life unless a health condition becomes grave, which Cathleen Shiels, co-convenor of Ireland's Abortion Rights Campaign , calls an "impossible distinction for medical practitioners to make. (newsweek.com)
  • Dr. Peter Boylan, an obstetrician, gynecologist and former clinical director of Ireland's National Maternity Hospital, told Amnesty that "under the [current law] we must wait until women become sick enough before we can intervene. (newsweek.com)
  • Her case spurred the government to adopt the 2013 act, under which Ireland's first legal abortion was performed, in Dublin in August 2013. (newsweek.com)
  • Over in Dublin, thousands have marched this week calling for an end to Ireland's strict abortion laws. (forbes.com)
  • Senate Bill 924 reclassifies any health clinic that provides five or more first trimester abortions a month as an outpatient surgical center rather than a physician's office, which is the current classification. (reason.com)
  • Women will be able to make an appointment with a community-based physician for an abortion using pills, or schedule a surgical abortion at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. (cbc.ca)
  • You have had a surgical abortion. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Before a surgical abortion, women are given antibiotics that are effective against infections in the reproductive tract. (msdmanuals.com)
  • After any abortion (surgical or medication), women with Rh-negative blood are given injection of Rh antibodies called Rho(D) immune globulin. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Queensland Independent MP Rob Pyne introduced the Abortion Law Reform (Woman's Right to Choose) Amendment Bill to parliament in May 2016. (greenleft.org.au)
  • In her testimony published in the book Aborted Women, Silent No More in 1987, she tells the story of her decision to have an abortion as one she regrets deeply. (wikipedia.org)
  • The pain that she experienced before, during and after her abortion inspired her to create an outreach to women that have been in her same position, and are grieving with their decision to have an abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • More than half of the participants said that the decision to have an abortion had been difficult or very difficult. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Even chart-topping rapper Nicki Minaj admitted the decision to have an abortion has "haunted her" the rest of her life. (newsbusters.org)
  • As their stories show, the experience of abortion in the United States in 2013 is vastly uneven. (nymag.com)
  • TV personality Brodie Kane is sharing her experience of abortion in the hope it makes others feel less stigmatised. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • From the hermeneutic phenomenology, results revealed that the experience of abortion is seen as a choice. (bvsalud.org)
  • ABORTION HELPLINE, THIS IS LISA, shortlisted for Oscars 2021 for Best Documentary Short Subject and winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Shorts at AFI Docs 2020, is a powerful short documentary that exposes how economic stigma and cruel legislation determines who in America has access to abortion. (wmm.com)
  • Since December 2021, the Salvadoran government has commuted the sentences of nine women who suffered obstetric emergencies and were prosecuted for abortion. (mercopress.com)
  • Six years later, Kansas became the first state to ban abortion done through dilation-and-evacuation, a method that is the standard of care after the first trimester, though the ban was later overturned by the state supreme court in 2021. (motherjones.com)
  • Materials and methods: A multi-centre cross-sectional survey among abortion-seeking women (n = 623;14-47y) in Sweden, 2021. (lu.se)
  • For first-trimester abortions, the complication rate is 0.3 percent , throwing doubt on the safety argument. (reason.com)
  • The study reports no significant differences in emotional response between women who had abortions in the first trimester and those who had abortions later. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Another woman, who had just started college, did not learn that she was pregnant until she was at the end of her second trimester. (now.org)
  • 90% of abortions are done during the 1st trimester. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Founder Nancy Jo Mann received an abortion in 1973. (wikipedia.org)
  • Abortion has been a constitutionally protected right and that has remained the case since the court said it in 1973 and opponents are trying to regulate it out of existence," Gonen says. (marieclaire.com)
  • [ 1 ] Accurate statistics have been kept since the enactment of the 1973 US Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortions. (medscape.com)
  • Since the 1973 decision, approximately 1.3-1.4 million abortions have been performed annually in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)
  • Shetty's comments echoed those made last year by Nigel Rodley, the United Nations Human Rights Committee chairman, who said pregnant women in Ireland, specifically women who are pregnant as a result of a rape, are "clearly treated like a vessel and nothing more. (newsweek.com)
  • In Ireland, abortion is legal if the mother's life is at risk, which is different from her health being at risk, Holland said. (cnn.com)
  • An abortion to save the life of the mother is legal here, but the lack of clear guidelines has created such uncertainties and confusion amongst medical staff that such an occurrence could happen again," Anna Lo said. (cnn.com)
  • In September, Prime Minister Robert Abela had said that the debate on whether Malta should make abortion legal should continue but the "rights of the unborn" should be voiced. (timesofmalta.com)
  • While abortion is still a legal right in this country, abortion coverage for low-income women remains one of the leading barriers to reproductive health care in the United States. (prweb.com)
  • Excessive restrictions stigmatize women seeking abortions and discriminate against those who lack the knowledge and understanding of legal grounds for abortion and vulnerable groups, such as poor and rural women and girls" (Finer). (bartleby.com)
  • The teens not only have one abortion, like it could have just been a poor decision or malfunction, they have several all becaus eit is legal. (bartleby.com)
  • Misoprostol was registered only in countries where abortion was legal. (womenonwaves.org)
  • If you live in a country where there is no access to safe and legal abortion. (womenonwaves.org)
  • In some countries where there is no access to safe and legal abortion, the medicine Misoprostol is easy to get and might be a cheaper option than Women on Web. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Such a practice has deprived clients of their rights to safe and legal abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation from any government approved facility of her choice," says the 'National Facility-based Abortion Baseline Study' by the Centre for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA). (ipsnews.net)
  • The research also revealed that only 50 percent of CAC clients were aware that abortion is now legal. (ipsnews.net)
  • Many people don't know that abortion services are legal," confirmed Kasturi Malla, director of Kathmandu's Maternity Hospital, at Thursday's meeting. (ipsnews.net)
  • While there is much ongoing confusion about the states where abortion is legal, where it is illegal, and where it has been further restricted, there is one thing we can be absolutely sure of: The status of abortion isn't settled! (womensenews.org)
  • While there is much ongoing confusion about the states where abortion is legal, where it is illegal, and where it has been further restricted, there is one thing we can be absolutely sure of: The status of abortion isn't settled -while some lawmakers are expected to propose new laws to restrict abortion access, others are moving to expand access. (womensenews.org)
  • Midwest Access Coalition (MAC) envisions a world in which all people have access to safe, free, legal abortions wherever they live. (womensenews.org)
  • The groups assure that the legal process against the young woman was biased and that the judge did not admit evidence that proved her innocence, also casting aside the gender violence to which Lesly had been subjected, or the psychological expertise that suggested a psychiatric study. (mercopress.com)
  • As a result, women who seek abortions typically go to England, where abortion is legal. (salon.com)
  • In the U.S., abortion is legal nationally but highly restricted in some states . (salon.com)
  • The new rule is part of an old American effort, promoted by Christian activists and lawmakers , to make legal abortions as difficult as possible to obtain. (salon.com)
  • The 48-hour waiting period likely puts legal abortion out of reach for some. (salon.com)
  • OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok ( KFOR ) - The Center for Reproductive Rights filed legal action in Tennessee, Idaho, and Oklahoma, where abortion is banned. (kfor.com)
  • The Interim Resolution relates to Poland's implementation of three judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerning legal abortions (P. and S. and Tysiac and R.R.), which pre-date restrictions of the laws on legal abortion in Poland resulting from a judgment of the Constitutional Court of 22 October 2020. (coe.int)
  • They don't have legal abortion not because they cannot legalise abortion. (christian.org.uk)
  • Most of the African nations do not have legal abortion because they don't want legal abortion. (christian.org.uk)
  • Few legal cases allow women to seek abortion care. (wikipedia.org)
  • CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. (cdc.gov)
  • This report summarizes and describes data voluntarily reported to CDC regarding legal induced abortions obtained in the United States in 2004. (cdc.gov)
  • A total of 839,226 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC for 2004 from 49 reporting areas, representing a 1.1% decline from the 848,163 legal induced abortions reported by 49 reporting areas for 2003. (cdc.gov)
  • During 1990--1997, the number of legal induced abortions gradually declined. (cdc.gov)
  • Worldwide, some 20-30 million legal abortions are performed annually, with another 10-20 million abortions performed illegally (see The Alan Guttmacher Institute ). (medscape.com)
  • It added that If political leaders want fewer women to have an abortion they should offer them more support, introduce free contraception and make the morning after pill more freely available. (timesofmalta.com)
  • Because it's not just that random rapists-and family members who sexually assault their daughters , sisters, and nieces-don't give women the option of using contraception. (hnn.us)
  • When I was young and knew a lot of heterosexually active women, I observed that contraception failed with regularity. (hnn.us)
  • Three out of my four college roommates, all of whom used contraception, needed abortions somewhere along the line. (hnn.us)
  • Women, especailly teenagers have began ot use abortiona s a form of contraception, because they feel they are not ready to have a baby. (bartleby.com)
  • Contraception and abortion. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Blacktown Hospital provides a limited number of so-called medical abortions using mifespristone (commonly known as the abortion pill RU-486) to women less than 10 weeks' pregnant. (smh.com.au)
  • The abortion rate was 16 per 1,000 women aged 15--44 years for 2004, the same since 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • The report urges the Government of Kenya to publicly acknowledge the importance of reducing unsafe abortions as part of its commitment to reducing maternal mortality, one of the United Nations' eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (bigthink.com)
  • But "it's going to take 20 years to end unsafe abortions", she added in an interview Thursday after a meeting to review the work of the growing number of facilities providing comprehensive abortion care (CAC). (ipsnews.net)
  • This report is based on abortion data for 2004, provided voluntarily to CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Division of Reproductive Health. (cdc.gov)
  • About one in five women living with HIV had ever induced abortion in the study settings, indicating that abortion service is one of the main reproductive health services needed by women living with HIV in South Africa . (bvsalud.org)
  • Harder abortion laws will push women to the edge to make the harsh decision of getting an illegal abortion which may lead to her death. (bartleby.com)
  • The act additionally looks to remove unnecessary standards put in place by recent legislation that make abortions needlessly more difficult for women to obtain, according to Julie Gonen, Director of Government Relations for the Center for Reproductive Rights. (marieclaire.com)
  • Using 1996 data, this translates into 3.89 million live births, 1.37 million abortions, and 0.98 million miscarriages. (medscape.com)
  • A new wave of anti-abortion legislation has prompted outcry from several celebrities, with Alyssa Milano calling for a sex strike in protest and even Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren decrying Alabama's new near total ban as being "too restrictive. (yahoo.com)
  • While stars like Pink have lashed out at the white male Alabama state senators who passed a bill making it illegal to get an abortion after 6 weeks, even in cases of rape or incest, Anne Hathaway is reminding her fans that two white women also helped usher in the controversial legislation. (yahoo.com)
  • Mariel Whelan, an activist with Galway Pro-Choice , an abortion rights group located in that western Irish city, says many pro-choice activists in Ireland were unsure of how to respond to the legislation. (newsweek.com)
  • When it comes to abortion legislation, it seems all news coming out of various state capitals is negative. (marieclaire.com)
  • Politicians in 40 states have either presented, supported, or voted in favor of legislation that serves to block a woman's access to abortion. (marieclaire.com)
  • And their efforts are wide: these politicians have introduced over 250 pieces of legislation that could restrict abortion rights. (marieclaire.com)
  • Regardless of the limitations, the idea that politicians could be limited in their power to protect the rights of unborn children, or restrict a woman's constitutionally protected right to an abortion, depending on your beliefs, is one that could change the shape of anti-abortion legislation today. (marieclaire.com)
  • In Texas, the state where the single, pregnant woman who became Jane Roe sued for access to an abortion 41 years ago, Wendy Davis became a national hero for filibustering abortion legislation, as did her governor for signing it into law. (nymag.com)
  • This legislation would ensure that every woman can access ALL of her healthcare options, regardless of how much money she earns or where she lives," said Congresswoman Barbara Lee. (prweb.com)
  • They were fighting legislation criminalizing what anti-abortion activists call 'dismemberment abortion. (cbc.ca)
  • By giving voice to those affected by discriminatory policies, the film exposes how legislation like the Hyde Amendment ties access to abortion to economic status and denies reproductive justice. (wmm.com)
  • needs update] In turn, legislation on abortion is influenced by Islamic law. (wikipedia.org)
  • Afghan legislation is based heavily on Islamic views on abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In one 2017 study , I examined data of over 2,300 patients in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Isle of Man who had received financial assistance from abortion funds , charitable organizations that help people access abortions they can't afford. (salon.com)
  • Having an illegal abortion in Ireland, or assisting someone with an illegal abortion, could lead to 14 years in prison. (newsweek.com)
  • Botched illegal abortions kill thousands of Kenyan women every year, according to a report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights , a New York-based NGO dedicated to advancing reproductive freedom through U.S. and international law. (bigthink.com)
  • Elective abortion is illegal in Kenya. (bigthink.com)
  • If abortion is made illegal, some women may still find a way to have an abortion. (bartleby.com)
  • and Motherless: A Legacy of Loss from Illegal Abortion (1992) about children orphaned when their mothers died after back-alley abortions before Roe. (wmm.com)
  • The penalty for illegal abortion in Ireland is 14 years in prison. (forbes.com)
  • Though the Republic of Ireland legalized abortion in May 2018 , leaving Northern Ireland as the only nation on the British Isles with an abortion ban, our research took place when abortion was illegal in both nations. (salon.com)
  • Obianuju Ekeocha, writer and presenter of Strings Attached, exposed how the UK, Canada and other European nations are funding abortion giant Marie Stopes International (MSI), which uses the money to perform illegal abortions in Africa. (christian.org.uk)
  • Abortion is illegal in Kenya, where the right to life is enshrined in the country's constitution. (christian.org.uk)
  • Abortion in Afghanistan is illegal unless the life of the mother is at risk or the baby's life is endangered, interpreted as the baby having a severe disability or low quality of life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Women often pursue abortions through illegal means because of the few cases that allow abortions legally. (wikipedia.org)
  • No death was associated with known illegal abortion. (cdc.gov)
  • In California, a trained nurse practitioner can now perform an abortion, but in Mississippi, a provider must be an obstetrician with admitting privileges at a local hospital, a rule that could shut down the state's last remaining clinic. (nymag.com)
  • As recently as March 15, 2019, Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge botched a woman's abortion, which caused her to bleed so profusely that she was at the point of hemorrhaging. (frc.org)
  • When I called the NAF member clinic in Florida and found out how much the abortion was going to cost, I panicked. (prochoice.org)
  • One-quarter of those clients had sought an abortion from a private unlisted clinic, about one-sixth from an unskilled provider and one in eight tried to abort using unapproved drugs. (ipsnews.net)
  • That includes women in the United States, where restrictive abortion laws mean the nearest clinic may be many miles away. (salon.com)
  • But the funds, derived from the sale of an abortion clinic, ran out at the end of 2007. (smh.com.au)
  • Jacqueline Gandi worked at a Marie Stopes clinic in Kenya taking calls from women requesting abortions and referring them to doctors. (christian.org.uk)
  • Akech Aimba, who had an abortion at a Marie Stopes clinic aged 18, added: "Organisations like Marie Stopes should be defunded because they are causing more harm than good. (christian.org.uk)
  • I was told at a clinic in Adler [district of Sochi] that women with Abkhazian passports can't be given abortions. (civil.ge)
  • Halappanavar died at the hospital, leading lawmakers to call for an investigation into what role abortion laws may have played in her death. (cnn.com)
  • In neighboring Northern Ireland, a lawmaker called for a review of abortion laws there, as well. (cnn.com)
  • The notion that many women regret their abortions is also used to justify passing of state laws mandating waiting periods and state-scripted counseling before abortion. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Ireland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, and pregnant women and girls are at risk if they remain in the country, according to a new report. (newsweek.com)
  • Of all the battles in our half-century culture war, perhaps none seems further from being resolved, in our laws and in our consciences, than abortion. (nymag.com)
  • Successive court rulings have granted even more latitude in writing abortion laws, and legislators have responded by creating a patchwork of regulations: Arkansas has banned abortion after twelve weeks, while in Louisiana, a woman is shown her ultrasound before having an abortion. (nymag.com)
  • If abortion laws become harder women will still seek dangerous methods to obtain an abortion. (bartleby.com)
  • Motivated by their anguish and personal stories, these five women call for clarification on the state's anti-abortion laws. (bust.com)
  • Texas has been no stranger to having some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country, but after the lawsuit was successfully filed on March 6th , it is clear that the abortion laws are also among some of the most confusing ones as well. (bust.com)
  • Laws like HB2 have become known as targeted restrictions on abortion provid-ers, or TRAP laws, and they often have a sig-nificant spatial and architectural compo-nent. (archpaper.com)
  • The heavy influence of religious beliefs on the law leads to strict laws surrounding abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before the 19th century, most US states had no specific abortion laws. (medscape.com)
  • In Mississippi, women in 85 percent of the state's counties have no access to an abortion facility. (marieclaire.com)
  • Savita Halappanavar died from an infection in 2012 at University Hospital Galway when doctors refused to perform an abortion because her fetus had a heartbeat, Amnesty said. (newsweek.com)
  • Kansas was an unlikely place for a resounding affirmation of the right to an abortion. (motherjones.com)
  • Courts, including the Supreme Court, have based their decisions to restrict abortion rights on assumptions that women suffer poor mental health as a consequence of abortion and that women having later abortions are more likely to regret their decision than women having earlier abortions. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Extreme proposals would slash hundreds of millions of dollars from programs and services for women and families - must be nonstarter for negotiations WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 19, 2023 - Today, the National Partnership for Women & Families. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • New analysis of Census Bureau data shows largest wage gap in Utah, lowest in District of Columbia WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 19, 2023 - In case you missed it, the National Partnership for Women & Families released updated state-by-state analysis of. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Then Texas governor Rick Perry claimed that HB2 would help " support the health of Texas women ," furnishing a higher standard of care, but in practice, it dramatically reduced abortion access across the state. (archpaper.com)
  • Sure I can understand that in the districts, where they are alone and have to treat everything from broken legs to internal injuries, but not in the cities," added the former manager of the Ministry of Health's Technical Committee for the Implementation of Comprehensive Abortion Care (TCIC). (ipsnews.net)
  • The Mississippi Attorney General's vague arguments about how his government would support women in bearing children fly in the face of that state's history of actively keeping resources from the poor. (hnn.us)
  • Nebraska GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, who's been accused of groping eight women, lost to Jim Pillen, a rival endorsed by incumbent Gov. Pete Ricketts (R), in the state's primary race on Tuesday, per the Associated Press . (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • In 2014, 10 women a day legally traveled from Ireland to the U.K. to get an abortion, a 7.6 percent drop from 2013, which activists attribute to more women acquiring the abortion pill online. (newsweek.com)
  • The government decriminalised abortion in 2002 after years of a sustained campaign by activists and researchers. (ipsnews.net)
  • Local activists have called on parliament to change the law, which they say discriminates against women. (civil.ge)
  • We're also keen to involve more activists, especially young women, in the campaign from November onwards. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Each and every day, the rights of women are under attack in America - today, we push back because every person has a right to healthcare. (prweb.com)
  • Regardless of how someone personally feels about abortion, none of us, especially elected officials, should be interfering with a woman's right to make her own healthcare decision just because she is poor. (prweb.com)
  • The average distance that women would have to travel to access healthcare services ranged from 3.2 miles in New York to 168.5 miles in Wyoming and more than 330 miles in South Dakota. (forbes.com)
  • Though mainstream white feminists would begin co-opting the terminology, the RJ framework would remain overlooked in larger conversations about the human right to safe, quality, and affirming healthcare, which includes abortion. (refinery29.com)
  • The amendment to the Law on Healthcare passed in early 2016 banned abortions in Abkhazia in almost all circumstances. (civil.ge)
  • Abortion is commonly known as a murderous crime in which a mother chooses to terminate her child, but I do not view abortion that way. (bartleby.com)
  • National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) works with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. (womensenews.org)
  • The changes came after The Canadian Press revealed in a series of stories that women in the province faced significant barriers and delays to the procedure. (cbc.ca)
  • It would improve access to abortion services, especially for particular groups of women: young women, poor women, women from rural and regional areas, women who have barriers in getting accurate, up-to-date information about abortion provision in Queensland. (greenleft.org.au)
  • abortus also causes zoonotic infection in humans, which in pregnant women, can result in spontaneous abortion ( 2 , 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Spontaneous abortion in flight attendants. (cdc.gov)
  • Objectives: Flight attendant occupational exposures include cosmic ionising radiation and circadian disruption.We wanted to determine whether these and other occupational exposures were associated with spontaneous abortion among female flight attendants. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: Spontaneous abortion was associated with several flight attendant occupational exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • The abortion ratio, defined as the number of abortions per 1,000 live births, was 238 in 2004, a decrease from the 241 in 2003. (cdc.gov)
  • Both immediately following the procedure and over 3 years later, 95% of women who had abortions maintained that having an abortion had been the right decision for them. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • More than a dozen women have staged a protest against a proposed ban on Ohio's most common abortion procedure while dressed in character from the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. (cbc.ca)
  • Sarah's abortion was performed by a friend of a friend because the hospital refused to perform the procedure. (bigthink.com)
  • And can we talk about the " Mississippi appendectomy, " in which Black women went in for a minor medical procedure and left the hospital involuntarily sterilized? (hnn.us)
  • Abortion is a very delicate procedure which should be performed by a skilled professional. (bartleby.com)
  • The average abortion expense for our sample was US$585, while patients had on average just $307 at their disposal to pay for the procedure. (salon.com)
  • These American low-income abortion-seekers traveled, on average, 140 miles for their procedure. (salon.com)
  • Abortion was the only medical procedure considered a crime in New Zealand before it was officially decriminalised in 2020, allowing for terminations of up to 20 weeks. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • No other medical procedure is criminalised and nor should abortion be. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The provincial government announced last fall that it would no longer require a physician's referral to obtain an abortion and that the abortion pill, called Mifegymiso, would be available for free. (cbc.ca)
  • The divisive issue of abortion is on the agenda across the world this week. (forbes.com)
  • According to the 2011 census , more than 80 percent of Irish identify as Catholic, a faith that opposes all forms of abortion. (newsweek.com)
  • Salvadoran law criminalizes all forms of abortion, including therapeutic abortion, and punishes both the women and the doctors who perform them. (mercopress.com)
  • Several recent high-profile cases have drawn international attention to the state of abortion in Ireland. (newsweek.com)
  • His contribution to a political operation run by abortion foes raises questions about whether his personal views on abortion pose a conflict of interest in the case. (now.org)
  • Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), one of the very few anti-choice Democrats left in Congress, came out in support of the bill on Tuesday, saying that "the circumstances around the entire debate on abortion have changed. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • In the last four years, anti-choice politicians have passed a record-breaking number of restrictions on abortion with the sole intent of pushing it out of reach. (prweb.com)
  • Death from abortion is almost unknown in the United States or in other countries where abortion is legally available. (medscape.com)
  • This is really necessary to ensure that woman are treated with care consistent with their human dignity," says Mallory Quigley of the Susan B. Anthony List (SBL), a pro-life organization. (reason.com)
  • Only to the extent that they prohibited me from providing care to women. (marieclaire.com)
  • In addition, it prohibits political interference with decisions by private health insurance companies to offer coverage for abortion care. (prweb.com)
  • Every day, we talk to women on our Hotline who face decisions about selling personal items or not paying their rent or utility bills so they can access this basic health care. (prweb.com)
  • Abortion is both an essential part of health care and a basic human right. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • Access to abortion care facilitates people's freedom, autonomy, dignity and ability to make decisions about their bodies, their lives and their futures. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • As lawmakers at state and federal levels continue their onslaught of attacks against abortion rights, we are working to protect and expand reproductive care, and to lift up the ways abortion access is, more than ever, closely interconnected with economic security, maternal health, and health equity. (nationalpartnership.org)
  • The report is based on interviews with dozens of Kenyan women, policy-makers, and health care providers. (bigthink.com)
  • Kenyan health care providers told CRR the true numbers are probably much higher because so many women never seek medical attention. (bigthink.com)
  • the self righteousness and callousness of so-called "prolife" politicians from the infamous Henry Hyde down to the present: and the main message - American society does not suffiently care about poor women or the children they already have. (wmm.com)
  • NAF provide callers with accurate information, confidential consultation, options counseling, and referrals to providers of quality abortion care. (womensenews.org)
  • Although many of the women who cycled through the segregation unit where Harris has spent the past seven years are in their 20s, many had grown up in foster care. (thenation.com)
  • By providing these women with abortion care, Dr. Carhart effectively saved their lives. (now.org)
  • Attacks on abortion care keep coming. (now.org)
  • But by eliminating funding for facilities that offer abortions in addition to other reproductive services, the Trump administration rule may leave millions of low-income Planned Parenthood patients without family planning care. (salon.com)
  • In Tennessee, where there is a 48-hour abortion waiting period, my recent research found that abortion-seekers from the mountainous Appalachian region reported financial and personal strain, as well as problems arranging child care and transportation. (salon.com)
  • Our physicians and staff remain steadfast and committed to providing the highest quality and compassionate care for women of all ages and stages of life. (kfor.com)
  • I just know lots of people who have had abortions, and I love and care about them. (motherjones.com)
  • The general manager of Blacktown/Mount Druitt Hospital, Andrew Newton, said: ''Any woman requiring medical termination in NSW receives care according to clinical needs. (smh.com.au)
  • A social care worker from Scotland has been struck off from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) register and permanently banned from care work after he began a sexual relationship with a vulnerable woman and pressured her into aborting their child. (lifenews.com)
  • The SSSC has taken action against social worker David Phillips after an investigation that found he had started a sexual relationship with a vulnerable woman in Glasgow while she was in the care of his employer. (lifenews.com)
  • Black-led organizations like SisterSong , Midwest Access Coalition , Shero Mississippi , New Orleans Abortion Fund , and ARC Southeast have always showed up in the spirit of achieving true justice and care. (refinery29.com)
  • Regarding the care provided by the health professionals at the time of the abortion, the research revealed the need for some restructuring of SUS in order to better assist these women. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of the MPS initiative is to ensure that women and their newborns have access to the care they need and deserve through strengthened health systems and appropriate community level action. (who.int)
  • 11. In spite of the global and regional initiatives, access to emergency obstetric care remains geographically, financially and culturally elusive to the majority of women in African countries, specifically the poorest of the poor. (who.int)
  • These procedures should ensure that no unnecessary requirements are imposed on pregnant women seeking lawful abortion by hospitals beforehand and cover abortion refusals on grounds of conscience. (coe.int)
  • It rarely poses a threat to healthy people, but in immunocompromised people or pregnant women, it can cause serious infections or death. (cdc.gov)
  • Brian Amman] LCMV poses the greatest threat to pregnant women and people with immune system problems, so they should avoid contact with the rodents altogether, including pets, and should stay away from rodent-infested areas. (cdc.gov)
  • I don't think abortion is killing, but I'd always been against it. (nymag.com)
  • These young women think abortion is woinderful being that they wont have to aassume the role of mom but what they don't realize is that it can be more harmful ot them than they think. (bartleby.com)