• Expanding access to, and improving the quality of, fertility regulation services will reduce the numbers of unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions and associated maternal deaths. (who.int)
  • Spontaneous abortion, which is the loss of a pregnancy without outside intervention before 20 weeks' gestation, affects up to 20 percent of recognized pregnancies. (pdffox.com)
  • Methods We examined singleton pregnancies during 2000-2008 among women with a BMI (bvsalud.org)
  • The case and the overturning of most anti-abortion laws spurred the growth of a largely religious-based anti-abortion political and social movement, even as Americans were becoming, in the 1970s and 1980s, increasingly pro-choice. (wikipedia.org)
  • We already know that anti-abortion laws are deeply unpopular among Americans. (counterpunch.org)
  • The term pro-life was adopted instead of anti-abortion to highlight their proponents' belief that abortion is the taking of a human life, rather than an issue concerning the restriction of women's reproductive rights, as the pro-choice movement would say. (wikipedia.org)
  • The recently enacted Texas law banning abortion after 6 weeks gestation, even in cases of rape and incest, represents the latest battle in the long war on women being waged by conservative Republicans in this country against women's reproductive rights. (counterpunch.org)
  • Indeed, many positive trends in the health of women the world over, from North to South, East to West, have been reversed over the past decade, while reproductive health and rights remain threatened, particularly for poorer women, migrant women and women of colour. (thecornerhouse.org.uk)
  • Women made the right to abortion a central demand of their movement because they understood that women could never be equal with men without control over their reproductive lives. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League of Pennsylvania is seeking mandatory insurance coverage for contraceptive chemicals and devices. (consciencelaws.org)
  • Before the Supreme Court 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, anti-abortion views predominated and found expression in state laws which prohibited or restricted abortions in a variety of ways. (wikipedia.org)
  • The anti-abortion movement became politically active and dedicated to the reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision, which struck down most state laws restricting abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. (wikipedia.org)
  • The movement has campaigned to reverse Roe v. Wade and to promote legislative changes or constitutional amendments, such as the Human Life Amendment, that prohibit or at least broadly restrict abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, ending federal abortion rights and allowing individual states to regulate their own abortion laws. (wikipedia.org)
  • Roe v. Wade was considered a major setback by anti-abortion campaigners. (wikipedia.org)
  • The women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s reached its peak when women won the right to choose an abortion and the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. (socialistalternative.org)
  • When abortions were outlawed before Roe v. Wade , it did not stop them from happening. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Founded in New York City in 1973, shortly after Roe v. Wade was imposed on the nation, Catholics for Choice (originally known as Catholics for a Free Choice) struggled in the seventies and stayed alive only through support from other pro-abortion organizations and a Unitarian-Universalist group in New York City. (catholicvote.org)
  • The anti-abortion movement includes a variety of organizations, with no single centralized decision-making body. (wikipedia.org)
  • The movement is also supported by secular organizations (such as Secular Pro-Life) and non-mainstream anti-abortion feminists. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the late 1960s, in response to nationwide abortion-rights efforts, a number of organizations were formed to mobilize opinion against the legalization of abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2017, soon after entering office, former President Trump issued a global gag rule prohibiting international organizations from receiving U. S. family planning funding if they provide, counsel, refer or lobby for abortion services. (counterpunch.org)
  • In October 2021, the Biden administration reversed Trump's contentious policy that barred organizations that provide abortion referrals from receiving federal family planning money. (counterpunch.org)
  • Kennedy flourished as a lecturer, cable TV host-"The Flo Kennedy Show" ran from 1978 to 1995-and director of consumer rights organizations before her health declined. (thehumanist.com)
  • When Catholics for Choice projected pro-abortion messages onto the walls of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception while Catholics were praying inside in January 2022, it was the most sacrilegious stunt they had pulled since their founder stood on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral and declared herself "Her Holiness Pope Patricia the First" in 1973. (catholicvote.org)
  • She even challenged the Roman Catholic Church's campaign against abortion, insisting the church had violated the Constitution's separation of church and state. (thehumanist.com)
  • The second child of Lilly Marguerite Stehli and Paul Bonner, John Tyler was born 12 May 1920 in New York City and spent his early years in Locust Valley, Long Island (late 1920s), France (1930), and London (1932). (asu.edu)
  • Some anti-abortion activists allow for some permissible abortions, including therapeutic abortions, in exceptional circumstances such as incest, rape, severe fetal defects, or when the woman's health is at risk. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the '60s, an underground network of activists, doctors, ministers, lawyers, and welfare rights groups had already been risking arrest and skirting the law to direct pregnant women to competent physicians who would perform abortions. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The first organized action was initiated by U.S. Catholic bishops who recommended in 1973 that the U.S. Constitution should be amended to ban abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is estimated that approximately one million women had illegal abortions annually before the procedure was legalized in 1973, which directly resulted in the deaths of some 5,000 women every year. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The homes of Supreme Court justices are the newest site for protests over abortion access in the United States. (truthorfiction.com)
  • An issue that illuminates this imperative in sharp relief is residential picketing - protests against the actions or decisions of public officials at their homes, such as the recent noisy abortion rights demonstrations at the Montgomery County dwellings of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. (truthorfiction.com)
  • NEW YORK (IDN) - The United States Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, as a Justice of the Supreme Court. (indepthnews.net)
  • States could restrict or prohibit abortion after that time, but exceptions must be made to preserve "the life or health of the woman. (counterpunch.org)
  • Suddenly, instead of mere millions, there were hundreds of millions and eventually billions of dollars available to fund global campaigns of mass abortion and forced sterilization. (thenewatlantis.com)
  • Last Thursday, the New York Appellate Division, First Department - the intermediate appellate court in Manhattan - upheld, against constitutional challenge, the New York Domestic Relations Law's extension of marriage only to opposite-sex couples . (baseballcrank.com)
  • In 1982, a former abortion clinic operator named Frances Kissling, who had washed out of a convent as a teenager, was named the organization's president. (catholicvote.org)
  • In a 2002 interview, she said the best way to start an illegal abortion clinic was to find a desperate doctor who was in some kind of trouble and to bribe the authorities to look the other way. (catholicvote.org)
  • In about 5% of cases life-threatening complications develop. (who.int)
  • According to the latest available figures, more than half a million women are estimated to have died in 1995 from complications during pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period. (who.int)
  • The initiative supported evidence-based practices and contributed to the Joint WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF/World Bank Statement on Reduction of Maternal Mortality in 1999, which summarized the consensus on necessary actions, namely, prevention and management of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion, provision of skilled care in pregnancy and childbirth, and access to referral care when complications arise. (who.int)
  • Approximately a third of the million women having illegal abortions each year had to be hospitalized for complications. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Susie Hoffman was with the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY. (aphapublications.org)
  • The result was the play "Necessary Targets," which was staged in 1995 as a benefit performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright "sobbing in the front aisle," says Boric. (womensenews.org)
  • The 2 targets set for this goal are to "reduce in 2000 and the United Nations General by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, Assembly Special Session on Children in the maternal mortality ratio" and "achieve, 2002 [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • 2000. Acute dapsone exposure and methemoglobinemia in children: treatment with multiple doses of activated charcoal with or without the administration of methylene blue. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1984, Catholics for Choice gained new notoriety when it took out a full-page ad in the New York Times in support of abortion in response to bishops' criticism of vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, a self-identified Catholic. (catholicvote.org)
  • S pontaneous abortion refers to pregnancy loss at less than 20 weeks' gestation in the absence of elective medical or surgical measures to terminate the pregnancy. (pdffox.com)
  • The first major U.S. organization in the modern anti-abortion movement, the National Right to Life Committee, was formed out of the United States Catholic Conference in 1967. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1995, one of Catholics for Choice's founding members, Marjorie Reiley Maguire, wrote a letter to the editor of the National Catholic Reporter saying Catholics for Choice had become "an anti-woman organization" whose sole agenda was "the promotion of abortion, the defense of every abortion decision as a good, moral choice, and the related agenda of persuading society to cast off any moral constraints about sexual behavior. (catholicvote.org)
  • 2 At the state level, Texas closed most of its abortion clinics and ended Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood. (counterpunch.org)
  • 8 She had spent the years prior setting up illegal abortion clinics in countries like Mexico. (catholicvote.org)
  • The United States anti-abortion movement (also called the pro-life movement or right-to-life movement) contains elements opposing induced abortion on both moral and religious grounds and supports its legal prohibition or restriction. (wikipedia.org)
  • A May 2021 Pew Research Center poll found that 59 percent of U. S. adults think that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 39 percent think it should be illegal in all or most cases. (counterpunch.org)
  • Rich women, though, could afford safe abortions by paying a private doctor exorbitant fees or traveling to a country where abortion was legal. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The British Pregnancy Advisory Service plans to make legal abortions available within three weeks by 2005, and is planning a "radical overhaul of abortion methods" to achieve this goal. (consciencelaws.org)
  • 2000). The contributing authors examine various aspects of the right to privacy and its role in moral philosophy, legal theory, and public policy. (stanford.edu)
  • OBJECTIVE: To examine characteristics and causes of legal induced abortion-related deaths in the United States between 1998 and 2010. (bvsalud.org)
  • The first major anti-abortion success since Roe's case came in 1976 with the passing of the Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of certain federal funds for abortions. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Harris v. McRae, anti-abortion advocates won a 1980 challenge to the Hyde Amendment. (wikipedia.org)
  • That same year, anti-abortion politicians gained control of the Republican Party's platform committee, adding anti-abortion planks to the Republican position, and calling for a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, banning abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Hyde amendment, passed in 1977, banned federal funding from covering abortion services, and has been a budget rider on federal spending bills since then. (counterpunch.org)
  • Texas women managing to get to neighboring states for the procedure have flooded abortion facilities in neighboring states. (counterpunch.org)
  • They are being targeted by the pro-abortion and birth control lobby as never before, not least at school . (blogspot.com)
  • Human epidemics are sometimes preceded by an increase in RVF virus (RVFV) prevalence in domestic ruminants, which manifests as increased abortions and high neonatal deaths ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Owners did not report high levels of abortion or high neonatal deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: Abortion-related deaths were identified through the national Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System with enhanced case-finding. (bvsalud.org)
  • The new deputy prime minister for economic affairs is Oleksandr Sych of Svoboda, a member of parliament infamous for his attempts to ban all abortions, including in the event of rape. (icl-fi.org)
  • Visit the website of the New York State Catholic Conference to see an example of a campaign being waged against laws that would suppress freedom of conscience in health care. (consciencelaws.org)
  • The group expanded internationally in the 1990s, founding a Latin American arm called Catholics for the Right to Decide with the mission of encouraging abortions of Hispanic babies in heavily-Catholic countries like Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. (catholicvote.org)
  • In 2000, the USCCB said Catholics for Choice's claims to speak as an authentic Catholic voice were false. (catholicvote.org)
  • Women who made the agonizing decision to have an illegal abortion were desperate, often because they simply could not afford to raise a child. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Ultrasonography is helpful in the diagnosis of spontaneous abortion, but other testing may be needed if an ectopic pregnancy cannot be ruled out. (pdffox.com)
  • Spontaneous pregnancy loss" has been recommended to avoid the term "abortion" and acknowledge the emotional aspects of losing a pregnancy.1 Another emotionally neutral term is "early pregnancy failure. (pdffox.com)
  • She spent her later years in a wheelchair and, on December 22, 2000, she died in her Manhattan apartment at the age of eighty-four. (thehumanist.com)
  • Dellinger believes, for instance, that it may have been the Waco experience that led Reno to go personally to Miami in April 2000 to see if there was a way to avoid a forcible removal of 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elián González from the home of a great-uncle so the boy could be returned to his only living parent, in Cuba. (wgbh.org)
  • Women are at increased risk for significant depression and anxiety for up to one year after spontaneous abortion. (pdffox.com)
  • Prosecutors had sought a thirty-year sentence, but Stewart was sentenced to two-and-a-half years after the judge rejected the prosecutors' argument that she threatened national security and ruled there was no evidence her actions caused any harm. (notmytribe.com)
  • CBS News unveiled the story of a seventeen year old girl, who was originally from Mexico, who had been in the United States for three years, seeking medical treatment for a life threatening heart condition. (caringlawyers.com)
  • Scared and ashamed, women often self-induced abortions with coat hangers or other sharp objects or sought out a "back alley" abortionist. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Ms. Williams sought to have an abortion, which was to be performed at the A Gyn Diagnostic Center. (caringlawyers.com)
  • The council, known by the acronym PACHA, has advised the White House on HIV/AIDS policies since its founding in 1995…" (Guarino, 12/29). (kff.org)
  • and MDG 6 focuses on combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases that underlie and threaten the nation's achievement of the other three goals. (who.int)
  • Abortion rights supporters had been persistently lobbying the government to legalize abortion under certain conditions but made very little progress until the mass women's liberation movement exploded onto the streets in the late '60s and early '70s. (socialistalternative.org)
  • In addition, infection with S pyogenes has reemerged as an important cause of toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and of life-threatening skin and soft-tissue infections, especially necrotizing fasciitis. (medscape.com)
  • Ludwig angina and Lemierre syndrome are life-threatening deep neck infections. (medscape.com)
  • Rada Boric, director of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, Croatia, and now "almost a sister" to Ensler, remembers that the playwright, on assignment in a refugee camp for The New York Times, ended up staying for weeks, "making coffee and crying. (womensenews.org)
  • The policy has been credited with preventing 400 million births and keeping China's population down to its current 1.4 billion by cutting the birth rate per family from 2.9 children in 1979 to 1.6 in 1995 but to achieve that goal heavy fines and forced abortions and sterilizations were employed. (factsanddetails.com)
  • Population Distribution by Age and Sex in Population 65 and Over, 2000 and 2025 the United States, 1880 and 2080 TODAY 1880 TOMORROW 2080 Source: Committee for Economic Development (1999). (nih.gov)
  • Expectant management of missed spontaneous abortion has variable success rates, but medical therapy with intravaginal misoprostol has an 80 percent success rate. (pdffox.com)
  • 2 In 2000, 12 percent of the U.S. population was age 65 or FIGURE 2. (nih.gov)
  • The recent passage of the Texas law banning abortion as early as 6 weeks, or just 14 days after a missed period when most women don't even know they are pregnant, has precipitated a crisis for many women in that state and neighboring states in helping them to gain access to urgently needed abortion services. (counterpunch.org)
  • Is the all-things-pink breast cancer impresario bowing to Right-wing anti-abortion pressure in pulling their financial support for low-income breast exams provided by Planned Parenthood? (notmytribe.com)
  • AMANPOUR: -- as world leaders gather in New York for their annual U.N. summit. (cnn.com)
  • The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000). (thenation.com)
  • During the decade, a radical Muslim group bombed the World Trade Center in New York, killing six. (course-notes.org)
  • Jill Stanek, a pro-life nurse who exposed the "live birth abortion" policy at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, Illinois, has been fired. (consciencelaws.org)
  • In Leslie Reagan's 1997 book, When Abortion Was a Crime , a women recounts a story of a college classmate who had an illegal abortion: "She was too frightened to tell anyone what she had done. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Texas has been enforcing its new 2021 law, which also empowers anyone-friends, neighbors, even family members- to report instances of a woman having an abortion and be rewarded by a $10,000 finding fee-a kind of unconstitutional vigilante law. (counterpunch.org)
  • In particular, our democratic polity has a rational basis for preferentially allocating scarce resources to benefit opposite-sex rather than same-sex married couples to promote two vital interests: promoting the population growth needed to sustain a healthy society and discouraging illegitimacy and abortion. (baseballcrank.com)
  • The right to abortion is especially necessary in a society that ultimately expects women to bear the financial and emotional responsibilities of raising children, but pays women much lower wages than men. (socialistalternative.org)
  • On the other side of the abortion debate in the United States is the abortion-rights movement (also called the pro-choice movement), which argues that pregnant women should have the right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper was born on June 22, 1953 to Fred and Catrine Lauper in Ozone Park, in the borough of Queens within the city of New York, New York, and was raised there. (blogspot.com)
  • After her mother died from cancer in 1942, Kennedy moved with her sister Grayce to New York City and enrolled in the pre-law program at Columbia University in 1944, graduating with honors four years later. (thehumanist.com)
  • Rather than having the prescribed abortion, an unlicensed doctor was permitted to give Ms. Williams a medication that caused her to deliver a baby girl, who was extremely pre term. (caringlawyers.com)
  • For women with incomplete spontaneous abortion, expectant management for up to two weeks usually is successful, and medical therapy provides little additional benefit. (pdffox.com)
  • In 2000 the Government of Namibia adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). (who.int)
  • Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a movement to liberalize abortion laws gained momentum due in part to the second-wave feminist movement and to a number of high-profile therapeutic abortion cases, such as that of Sherri Finkbine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Updated with numbers from 2000 Census. (nih.gov)
  • 1 Former Vice President Pence vowed his intention to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers. (counterpunch.org)
  • To be sure, such tactics have a longer history: One of the ugliest manifestations was the antiabortion movement's widespread deployment of pickets at the homes of abortion providers. (truthorfiction.com)
  • The criminalization of abortion disproportionately forced lower-income women and women of color into these terrifying, dangerous situations. (socialistalternative.org)
  • most evangelical Christian groups did not see abortion as a clear-cut or priority issue at the time. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the United States barreled across the Florida peninsula overnight Wednesday, threatening catastrophic flooding inland, the National Hurricane Center warned. (politico.com)
  • The Cats Claw Club of California (CCC of C), a sub-group of the Wobblies, threatened and bombed a number of wealthy and prominent people from 19161918. (issuu.com)
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared that Russia would pay "a huge price" for its incursion, threatening Russia's removal from the imperialist Group of 8 and the freezing of Russian assets abroad. (icl-fi.org)