As abortion opponents back increasingly restrictive laws at the state level, abortion-rights advocates have been supporting legislation to loosen abortion restrictions and shore up abortion access.
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RE: ABORTION PILL Ruth Graham wrote about the anti-abortion movement's campaign to elevate ''abortion-pill reversal.
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It touches on Trump's abortion comments, which it says angered both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights groups.
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Abortion rights advocates say "TRAP" laws -- or targeted regulation of abortion providers -- have resulted in fewer abortion clinics.
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I'm pro-choice — often called pro-abortion by the anti-abortion crusaders, although no one is pro-abortion.
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Abortion Mr. Trump, who supported the right to abortion as recently as 1999, opposed abortion during the campaign.
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That means Clinton supports partial-birth abortion, sex-selection abortion, abortion for unborn babies diagnosed with genetic diseases, and opposes protections for infants born alive after a "failed" abortion.
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Abortion is inevitable — there will always be abortion. . . .
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ABORTION: Abortion clinics in Texas are challenging a state law that imposes tough restrictions on doctors and abortion facilities.
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"Anti-abortion advocates had apparently succeeded by conflating one kind of late-term abortion with all abortion," Bazelon wrote.
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Many anti-abortion activists deny that women who lack access to a safe, legal abortion would choose an unsafe abortion.
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" Thill focused some of the night's discussion on language: Instead of calling aspiration abortion and other abortion procedures performed later in pregnancy "surgical abortion," she advised people use the term "procedural abortion.
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Anti–abortion rights advocates had championed Kavanaugh's nomination, while abortion rights groups warned Kavanaugh would restrict abortion as a conservative vote.
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Abortion opponents argue that one abortion is one too many.
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She blamed abortion rights advocates for violence at abortion clinics.
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Wade legalized abortion nationwide, to be without an abortion provider.
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Fox News, unsurprisingly, had the most dramatically skewed ideological ratios against abortion — both in terms of anti-abortion speakers and abortion misinformation.
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Abortion Reality Check: Hogue on abortion By Sonam Vashi, CNN Activist Ilyse Hogue addressed abortion and women's reproductive health in her speech.
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The Abortion Care Network is another organization working to ensure meaningful access to abortion care across the US through independent abortion providers.
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In 14 states, women must physically come to the abortion clinic for both the pre-abortion counseling session and the abortion procedure.
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From the Hyde Amendment to this latest string of abortion restrictions, politicians who cannot make abortion illegal decide to make abortion inaccessible.
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One common form was so-called "abortion reversal" bills, which require abortion providers to tell patients that medication abortion could be reversed.
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Some abortion rights supporters worry that establishing abortion rights as a Democratic litmus test is too inflexible for Americans conflicted over abortion.
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Pioneered by an anti-abortion doctor in California, abortion "reversal" involves taking the hormone progesterone after the first dose of abortion medication.
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And when anti-abortion Republicans swept state legislatures in 2010, they started passing an avalanche of abortion restrictions that forced many abortion clinics to close, often citing the erroneous idea that abortion is generally dangerous.
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In fact, in 28503 we saw the lowest rates of abortion since 22019, the year abortion was legalized in the US. Anti-abortion advocates argue that the decline has been secondary to increased abortion restrictions.
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While these 6-week abortion bans may not ever take effect, anti-abortion advocates believe they can use them to ban abortion nationwide.
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She never had the abortion, but was an outspoken advocate of abortion rights until the 1990s, when she became an anti-abortion activist.
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" Another reason for the rise in self-induced abortion arrests is increased awareness and availability of medical abortion, also known as "abortion pills.
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They tend to believe either that most voters oppose abortion or that the anti-abortion base is larger than the abortion rights base.
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"It's illegal to talk about abortion, it's practically illegal to have an abortion, now it's illegal to even joke about abortion," says Veronica.
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Abortion rights groups say anti-abortion organizations could use the case to test limits on abortion all the way to the Supreme Court.
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But in an effort to portray the procedure as risky or illicit, abortion foes sometimes refer to medication abortion as "chemical abortion" instead.
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Julie Daniels, who sponsored a law requiring abortion clinics post a sign about abortion reversal, with contact details for an anti-abortion group.
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Kavanaugh's views on abortion Opponents of abortion rights have Roe v.
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Planned Parenthood engages in partial birth abortion, in late-term abortion.
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Alabama's abortion ban, as introduced, also equates abortion with the Holocaust.
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Abortion Three measures in three states concerned abortion access and funding.
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The abortion rate and the abortion ratio tell us different things.
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It supports abortion rights; it is not an anti-abortion group.
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In seven states, the materials imply or reference a link between abortion and breast cancer; three imply a link between abortion and PTSD or "post-abortion" syndrome; four imply a link between abortion and possible infertility.
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"Safe, legal abortion will end, but abortion will not end," she said, adding that women will be forced to turn to unsafe abortion methods.
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Lloyd is a longtime opponent of abortion: He's worked for anti-abortion organizations and written articles arguing that contraception access leads to increased abortion.
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Anti-abortion activists say that a suspension of abortion services at the clinic would not mean an end to abortion access in the area.
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An abortion with pills, or a medication abortion, costs an average of $535 in a clinic, similar to the cost of an aspiration abortion.
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We'll start with abortion... Supreme Court to hear Louisiana abortion case Get ready for an election year showdown over abortion in the Supreme Court.
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Anti-abortion activists founded ''abortion recovery'' organizations and advanced the idea of ''post-abortion syndrome,'' a relative, they claimed, of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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But now, abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists disagree on the basic facts about abortion — and who has the scientific authority to determine them.
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"The weaponizing of inspections processes in the provision of abortion care has escalated as an anti-abortion tactic by anti-abortion politicians, to find ways of effectively banning abortion in states, without overturning Roe," Lee-Gilmore said.
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Abortion is legal in every state Abortion is legal under Roe v.
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The National Abortion Federation has a list of abortion providers in Florida.
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America's abortion war has curtailed access to abortion in other ways, too.
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The Boston-area pastor had come to talk about abortion -- her abortion.
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Lamb has said he is personally against abortion, but supports abortion rights.
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Abortion differences Abortion, though, remains a point of difference between the pair.
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But this hasn't stopped anti-abortion activists from championing "abortion reversal" anyway.
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The pro-abortion rights Abortion Access Front runs an initiative called exposefakeclinics.
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And many abortion opponents sincerely believe that women are victims of abortion.
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The National Abortion Federation has a list of abortion providers in Maine.
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Kemp support anti-abortion measures, while Abrams wants to protect abortion rights.
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After all, abortion opponents have been backing restrictions on abortion for decades.
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But abortion rights supporters said the requirement was intended to stigmatize abortion.
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Abortion rights groups say anti-abortion organizations could use the legal case to test the limits of abortion all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Total bans on abortion and certain abortion methods are in the pipeline, as well as bans on abortion after a pregnancy reaches a certain point.
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The fallacy of the Global Gag Rule is that by banning abortion or even mention of abortion as an option, this will actually stop abortion.
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Historically, anti-abortion groups have supported allowing abortion in the case of ectopic pregnancy, arguing that it is morally distinct from abortion in other cases.
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While anti-abortion activism has attempted to link abortion to racism for decades, the argument that abortion poses a unique threat to black lives has seen an increase in attention in recent years, the result of a collaboration between the conservative black church, black anti-abortion activists, and some white anti-abortion organizations.
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No study has found evidence that restricting women's access to abortion has a measurable impact on reducing abortion rates, nor is there a systematic relationship between the restrictiveness of abortion legislation and the odds of women seeking an abortion.
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Abortion: The House's version banned federally-subsidized health plans from covering abortion care, a move critics said would essentially end private health insurance coverage of abortion.
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As the debate over abortion rights rages on across the country, the National Abortion Federation released its 2018 statistics on violence and disruption against abortion providers.
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The proposed links between abortion and mental health issues, abortion and future infertility, and abortion and breast cancer are all wildly unsubstantiated, if not debunked entirely.
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Abortion The draft does not diverge strongly, however, from the 2012 position on abortion, saying that unborn children are protected by the Constitution and decrying abortion.
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Medication abortion doesn't require additional medical training beyond what primary care providers already have (as opposed to aspiration abortion, the other common first-trimester abortion procedure).
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In at least eight previous cases, the Supreme Court has allowed an abortion clinic or an abortion provider to bring a lawsuit challenging an abortion restriction.
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It's very common for anti-abortion state legislatures to pass extreme abortion bans.
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Abortion providers can't escape the nonstop the hateful, violent rhetoric from abortion opponents.
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Abortion Price is anti-abortion and has voted against funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Abortion laws The raging abortion debate continues to play out across the country.
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Abortion providers across the country have noticed the uptick in anti-abortion harassment.
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Kasich's decisions quickly drew criticism from both anti-abortion and abortion rights organizations.
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Early in pregnancy, you generally have two options: medication abortion or aspiration abortion.
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Abortion Alabama and West Virginia voted measures into their constitutions that restrict abortion.
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We don't know women who demand abortion or use abortion as birth control.
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"Banning abortion is not going to stop abortion," Whitford says in the spot.
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On abortion: Yang supports the right to choose abortion and affordable contraception access.
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While other Catholics protested abortion, I worked for abortion rights and distributed condoms.
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Title X doesn't actually cover abortion, due to the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment.
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The Northwest Abortion Access Fund has a list of abortion providers in Idaho.
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The abortion rate, like everything else about abortion in America, often gets politicized.
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We say anti-abortion, and what is the impact of being anti-abortion?
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Abortion is not legal in my country, so the abortion was in secret.
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" On the walls, signs read " ABORTION, YOU DO YOU " and " ABORTION: NO SHAME .
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He defended anti-abortion Operation Rescue activists who confronted women entering abortion clinics.
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Nevada decriminalized self-managed abortion, while Maine expanded Medicaid coverage for abortion care.
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Trump also made anti-abortion rights statements without specifically mentioning abortion or policies.
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In order to make abortion illegal, abortion opponents have to change our minds.
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"To be pro-choice in 2018 means that you are for sex-selection abortion, that you are for late-term abortion, taxpayer-funded abortion, abortion after the heartbeat or after nonpartisan scientists say the baby can feel pain," Conway said.
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On navigating the abortion debate As mayor of South Bend, Buttigieg was embroiled in the abortion debate when he vetoed a rezoning request by an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center that wanted to establish itself adjacent to an abortion clinic.
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Those who support abortion rights were sure Exhale was secretly anti-abortion, while opponents were equally convinced it was an undercover organization for the abortion rights movement.
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In Latin America, which has restrictive abortion laws and the highest abortion rates, one in three pregnancies ended in abortion in 2014, higher than any other region.
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The case focuses on Texas "TRAP" (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider) laws that further restrict access to abortion in a state that has been eliminating abortion clinics.
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As governor of Virginia, Mr. Kaine supported some restrictions on abortion and said as a "traditional Catholic" that he was personally against abortion but supported abortion rights.
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The report urged governments to ensure women have access to contraceptive services, to ease abortion laws and to expand access to abortion services and post-abortion care.
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Abortion is a safe, common, procedure and government-sanctioned barriers to abortion care like withholding taxpayer funding for abortion only serve to jeopardize women's health and wellbeing.
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Anti-abortion activists worry that the ERA, if ratified, would be used by abortion-rights supporters to quash abortion restrictions on grounds they specifically discriminate against women.
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Abortion bills Kentucky's the latest red state to pass tough, new restrictions on abortion.
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A non-therapeutic abortion is any abortion that is not considered a medical necessity.
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" She added: "I think that restricting the access to abortion does not reduce abortion.
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Abortion rights advocates call such restrictions "targeted regulation of abortion providers," or "TRAP" laws.
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Since 2013, anti-abortion lawmakers have passed nearly 300 laws restricting access to abortion.
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Research shows that preventing women from accessing abortion does not stop abortion from occurring.
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After a flurry of anti-abortion legislation, Planned Parenthood built the Abortion Care Finder.
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Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, to have zero abortion clinics.
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Abortion Iowa lawmakers have passed what could be the nation's most restrictive abortion ban.
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We must find real healthcare solutions that exclude abortion, because abortion is not healthcare.
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For years, abortion advocates have equated improving women's health with increasing access to abortion.
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An abortion rights group is suing the state of Mississippi over its abortion laws.
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Wade, dramatically increasing abortion funding by allowing subsidies for plans that cover elective abortion.
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Restrictive and deterring abortion laws do not help make the practice of abortion safer.
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Ireland repealed its abortion ban, votes are being taken in Argentina to decriminalize abortion.
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Razafinirinasoa: In other countries where abortion is legal, Marie Stopes is providing abortion services.
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So, if abortion rights supporters lose the case, legal abortion could vanish in Louisiana.
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Abortion rights supporters attacked the bills as thinly veiled attempts to curtail abortion access.
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A law requiring ultrasounds for abortion already exists for Indiana's few remaining abortion clinics.
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The Trump administration has openly opposed abortion and shown support for anti-abortion causes.
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Though some anti-abortion lawmakers, notably in Texas, have recently called for criminal prosecution of women seeking abortion, most anti-abortion groups have historically been against the idea.
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The Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization that supports abortion rights and tracks abortion legislation, said it would be one of the most restrictive abortion laws if enacted.
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Hodges, which legalized the practice, and has stated opposition to abortion rights (though some anti-abortion activists believe she hasn't expressed enough public support for restrictive abortion regulations).
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Studies have shown that restriction abortion does not make it any less frequent—the world's lowest abortion rates are in Europe, where abortion is legal and widely available.
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"Anytime there's an attack [on abortion rights], it hurts all clinics," said Jay Thibodeau, communications director for the Abortion Care Network, a membership organization for independent abortion providers.
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The idea that in undergoing abortion women experience something tragic and specific called "post-abortion syndrome" has been a linchpin of the anti-abortion movement in recent years.
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They tended to defer to the moral sensibilities of abortion opponents by arguing that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare" — even though abortion is very common (about a quarter to a third of women will have an abortion in their lifetime).
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For instance, on abortion access, 31 states now require waiting periods, restrict insurance coverage for abortion, ban abortion after 20 weeks, require clinics to meet ambulatory surgical center standards (causing many to close), and require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals.
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And while abortion opponents once favored an incremental approach to restricting abortion, many have adopted a far more aggressive strategy in hopes of rolling back protections for abortion nationwide.
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Because of these characteristics, abortion rights advocates have long argued that the centers' tactics are to "pose" as abortion clinics in order to "trick" women seeking out abortion clinics.
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Luckily, Brittany was able to afford an abortion with help from the Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF), a nonprofit organization which provides financial assistance to those seeking safe abortion care.
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They could pass "indirect" abortion funding bans — not just refusing to fund abortion services directly, but refusing to fund any other services at an organization that also provides abortion.
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The Abortion Care Finder shows the nearest Planned Parenthood abortion clinics and explains any relevant state laws and abortion methods, as well as clinic-specific services and financial assistance.
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In the mid-1990s, the term "partial-birth abortion," originated by the anti-abortion group National Right to Life, helped rally public opinion against a late-term abortion procedure.
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TRAP laws are abortion restrictions that superficially appear designed to make abortion safer for patients but actually do little more than make it harder for abortion clinics to operate.
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" She stressed that the state would tackle late-term abortion and sex-selection abortion, and "look at abortion after nonpartisan scientists and doctors say a fetus can feel pain.
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"The Eighth Amendment doesn't work as a means of regulating abortion, whether you are coming from the anti-abortion or abortion rights perspective," he said in a phone interview.
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However, Lila Rose redefines the meaning of abortion to exclude the cases when abortion is medically necessary in order to bolster her claim that "abortion is never medically necessary".
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However fiercely abortion advocates may cling to the claim that abortion is "safe," the truth is that surgical abortion is a procedure that can put women's lives in jeopardy.
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For instance, abortion providers often intentionally keep the price of medication abortion and procedural abortion the same, even though the cost of providing those services can be quite different.
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Casey have made it easier for anti-abortion lawmakers to limit abortion in some ways.
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Abortion rights activists praised the decision as a statement against attempts to limit abortion elsewhere.
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Journalists Defend Abortion, Again: Abortion is one of the most sacred "rights" for the media.
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The new law decriminalizes certain actions related to performing abortions, abortion drugs and abortion prosecution.
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Abortion stigma doesn't just impact people who have abortions; abortion providers can feel it, too.
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Abortion Alabama's abortion bill, the most restrictive in the nation, has been signed into law.
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The bill also decriminalizes certain actions related to performing abortions, abortion drugs, and abortion prosecution.
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Even anti-abortion rights groups were quick to distance themselves from his hardline abortion comments.
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In fact, studies have shown that banning abortion doesn't actually reduce abortion rates at all.
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"Abortion greys", as they are sometimes called, have for decades thought abortion should be legal.
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Kaine is personally opposed to abortion, though he has largely favored pro-abortion rights policies.
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Mississippi, with only one abortion clinic, had the highest rate of searches for DIY abortion.
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Democrats said we mustn't restrict abortion rights, yet the bill places zero restrictions on abortion.
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Later abortion is something that some people find problematic — even those who support early abortion.
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"Abortion is not healthcare and the government should not be subsidizing elective abortion," he added.
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They can't make referrals to local abortion providers or run public information campaigns on abortion.
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Supporters of abortion rights argue the proposal would facilitate discrimination against women seeking abortion care.
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It's as though Donald Trump was pro-abortion rights and his party opposed abortion rights.
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Abortion rights advocates have been critical of her previous statements about abortion and birth control.
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Abortion Access Abortion remains one of the top hot-button moral issues of our time.
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My abortion saved my life, my doctor didn't know that though - my abortion was illegal.
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The president made abortion and appointing anti-abortion justices a signature campaign promise in 2016.
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Abortion Alabama, Oregon and West Virginia have measures that are aimed at restricting abortion access.
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He's pro-gun and says he personally opposes to abortion (though he supports abortion rights).
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The high court legalized abortion in 1973, but abortion remains a contentious issue among Americans.
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John Kasich, an abortion opponent who has already signed several anti-abortion restrictions into law.
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A government that can deny you an abortion can force you to get an abortion.
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All of a sudden, abortion opponents have abandoned rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans.
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They can publicly appear anti-abortion but privately know that abortion is available to them.
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Since 1976, the Court has allowed abortion providers to challenge abortion laws under this doctrine.
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Upholding needless restrictions on abortion can make safe and legal abortion unavailable to women, too.
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What's more, abortion providers don't need privileges because abortion is an extremely safe medical procedure.
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Further, the importance of the abortion issue has gone up among pro-abortion-rights Americans.
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Anti-abortion activists say the restrictive abortion laws are designed to be challenged in court.
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"Because over half the abortion clinics had already closed, abortion care in Texas is still not accessible," said Aimee Arrambide of Fund Texas Choice, another abortion fund in the state.
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Early trimester abortion helped put me back on track with my life goals, and that was only possible thanks to the Arkansas Abortion Support Network and [the National Abortion Fund].
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READ: 'I'm an abortion travel agent' and other tales from Texas' new desert Kennedy's history with abortion challenges Kennedy has been key to the legal case concerning abortion for years.
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But abortion rights advocates are reasonable to be skeptical of these claims: Abortion access is in crisis, and American women can ill afford opposition to abortion from the Democratic Party.
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Looking ahead: Abortion rights groups fear they can already see the sprouts of a sustained movement to overturn legal abortion, including the establishment this month of an anti-abortion party.
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Or an effort to establish that almost no abortion regulations (or literally no abortion regulations) create an undue burden — the standard now used to measure the constitutionality of abortion restrictions.
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The national fight over abortion has been revived in recent months after several conservative states passed abortion restrictions, many of which have drawn swift court challenges from abortion-rights groups.
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Biden, who is Catholic, has long said he personally opposes abortion, but has supported abortion rights.
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Supporters of abortion rights are constantly playing catch-up in ways that leave abortion access restricted.
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The same attack also targeted the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Abortion Care Network.
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The number of abortion providers is decreasing, as is the number of clinics providing abortion services.
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" Six states require that abortion patients be told that a medication-induced abortion can be "reversed.
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There would be no punishment for the woman receiving the abortion, only for the abortion provider.
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Phil Bryant signed a 15-week abortion ban, the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
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Reproductive justice advocates say these 15-week-abortion bans represent a new trend in abortion restrictions.
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Misinformation about abortion is rampant; it's a significant part of the political war on safe abortion.
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Abortion fights While controversy over birth control has hardly subsided, the abortion debate has only intensified.
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Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, many Republicans pushed to liberalize abortion laws.
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In the early 2000s, abortion opponents backed incremental restrictions on abortion clinics at the state level.
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Medicaid and Title X already do not cover abortion services, much to abortion-rights advocates' dismay.
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Abortion rights advocates contend such laws are designed to frighten and shame those seeking an abortion.
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In past abortion cases, he has backed a fundamental right to abortion while supporting some restrictions.
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Some abortion opponents want to see new laws that test the limits of current abortion laws.
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Abortion proponents said the provision was a back-door attempt to legalize "personhood" and restrict abortion.
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Williamson isn't the first abortion opponent to argue that women should face legal consequences for abortion.
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The partial birth abortion ban as well as the twenty-week abortion ban both began there.
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Trump's comments sparked backlash from his rivals and both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights groups.
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"Outing" abortion-care providers has played a deadly role in anti-abortion terrorism for two decades.
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To listen to the full version of these and other abortion stories, visit The Abortion Diary.
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She also advocates for abortion funds as a way to fight socioeconomic barriers to abortion access.
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It provides a lot more than abortion; indeed, many health centers don't offer abortion at all.
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National Abortion Federation President Vicki Saporta said the video campaign has put abortion providers at risk.
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Casey, for instance, made it easier for anti-abortion lawmakers to limit abortion in some ways.
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Abortion The Supreme Court heard the first major abortion case brought before its new conservative majority.
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But while making it easier to pass restrictions on abortion, the court ultimately preserved abortion rights.
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The state's abortion law was updated, formally protecting the right to abortion in case Roe v.
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Obria's CEO, Kathleen Eaton Bravo, says she became an anti-abortion advocate after having an abortion.
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Wade, which abortion opponents have been gunning to overturn since it legalized abortion nationwide in 1973.
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And we easily refuted the erroneous anti-abortion view that Ireland has a low abortion rate.
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Because there's an abortion scene, and the three women then represent the abortion by painting it.
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Abortion proponents deride much of this legislation as "targeted restrictions on abortion providers," or "TRAP" laws.
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He said he supports abortion rights but personally opposes abortion -- a position that matches Virginia Sen.
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" Abortion: "The Senate will vote on two abortion-related measures by the end of the week.
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Trump's campaign manager also attacked Clinton on abortion, saying the Dem nominee supports partial-birth abortion.
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Mr. Trump's victory has changed the political winds around abortion politics, emboldening the anti-abortion movement.
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One struck down restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas and reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion.
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Making women scramble to find abortion services has become an increasingly common tactic by abortion opponents.
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Many abortion clinics, for example, only offer medication abortions — a non-surgical abortion induced by pills.
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It's connected to a larger anti-abortion argument "that abortion is never medically necessarily," Grossman said.
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This is about enshrining unrestricted abortion in the Constitution and allowing full taxpayer funding for abortion.
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Mainstream anti-abortion advocates tend to avoid demonizing the women who have abortions, but they do tend to demonize abortion providers and push abortion restrictions that threaten doctors with criminal penalties.
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Hargan, which concerned a 20143-year-old unauthorized immigrant's attempt to secure an abortion while in government custody has given abortion rights advocates (and some more extreme anti-abortion advocates) pause.
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Aside from the abortion ban, parliament will also discuss draft legislation that would severely restrict rules on IVF, as well as an easing of abortion rules introduced by abortion rights campaigners.
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Because of the stigma surrounding the idea of abortion, I didn't actually realize that there were other ways to access abortion; that a medication abortion could be something I could utilize.
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This week, the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life released a report alleging a "public health crisis in America's abortion clinics," part of its national campaign for more abortion restrictions.
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In the first half of this decade, the anti-abortion movement strengthened and honed its chief strategy: passing "targeted restrictions on abortion providers," known by abortion rights advocates as TRAP laws.
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In the case of abortion, Trump isn't native to anti-abortion right & doesn't know lingo devised to hide horrifying implications of policy Just FYI on Trump comments & the claim prolifers don't want women to go to jail for abortion: Women already are going to jail for abortion.
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Access to abortion ... in other states The state argued throughout the trial that a woman's right to abortion would not be infringed upon if all of the abortion clinics in Kentucky closed, because women could access abortion clinics in a number of cities in neighboring states.
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Bolstered by Ireland's referendum in May, which removed one of Europe's last abortion bans, pro-abortion rights activists were hoping they could turn the tide on abortion law in Latin America, where more than 97% of women of reproductive age live in countries with restrictive abortion laws.
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They offer two different methods—a medication abortion and a suction abortion, but the medication abortion can only be done up to a certain point, and with how long I was going to have to wait, I was going to have to do the in-clinic abortion.
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The extension requires all health organisations receiving U.S. aid to guarantee they do not provide abortion services or discuss abortion policy, even if the abortion-related activities are funded by non-U.
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The extension requires all health organizations receiving U.S. aid to guarantee they do not provide abortion services or discuss abortion policy, even if the abortion-related activities are funded by non-U.
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The court has already limited abortion rights by approving a federal government ban on abortion in the final stage of pregnancy in 2007 and later allowing protests near abortion clinics in 2014.
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Because dilation and evacuates are generally the safest way to perform a second-trimester abortion, abortion rights groups argue that banning them essentially amounts to banning all abortion past the first trimester.
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" Abortion opponents have long stressed what they believe is the humanity of a fetus, protesting at rallies and in front of abortion clinics with signs that read "Abortion Stops a Beating Heart.
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Its "Abortion Pill Reversal Information Act" expresses concern that the increase in medical abortion represents a "willful disregard of women's health and safety" and has become a "cash cow" for abortion providers.
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Eventually, these burdens would become so great that no abortion clinic could afford to operate, and the right to an abortion would cease to exist in states led by anti-abortion lawmakers.
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And in a move that was heralded by anti-abortion activists, Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch, an anti-abortion jurist, to the Supreme Court and has filled lower courts with anti-abortion judges.
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"Without independent providers, abortion access in these four states would be limited to medication abortion within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy," said Nikki Madsen, executive director of the Abortion Care Network.
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"This is the year when we aren't discussing abortion yes or abortion no but rather what type of bill will be approved," said Celeste Mac Dougall, a strong advocate of abortion rights.
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In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
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In Argentina, despite a surging feminist and abortion movement, lawmakers rejected a bill to legalise abortion in 2018, while Ecuador voted down a law allowing abortion in cases of rape last year.
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A federal appeals court blocked Mississippi's 15 week abortion ban on Friday, simultaneously affirming abortion access in the state, and paving the way for further legal challenges to current federal abortion regulations.
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This gap explains why anti-abortion advocates often point to Gallup, which portrays a nation that leans slightly against abortion, while abortion-rights advocates often point to Pew, which shows the reverse.
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Abortion opponents aim to land abortion questions back in front of the nation's top court, where they believe the 5-4 conservative majority could sharply curtail abortion access or ban it outright.
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Wade is exactly what some anti-abortion lawmakers are trying to do when they pass abortion bans.
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On abortion: Ryan previously was pro-life, but changed his position to support legal access to abortion.
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Robin Marty is a freelance writer focused on abortion legislation, clinic access, and anti-abortion movement history.
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Abortion advocates say this support makes it clear that the election was not a referendum on abortion.
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People inclined to support abortion rights thought the protesters were more disruptive in the abortion clinic condition.
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Help work to dispel myths around abortion: For example, abortion is still legal in Alabama and Georgia.
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Sarah Roberts (left), an abortion doula, relaxes as A. (partially seen at right) recovers from an abortion.
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He says he is personally anti–abortion rights, though he would oppose 20-week abortion ban legislation.
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But anti-abortion groups have labeled the method as "dismemberment abortion" and campaigned to make it illegal.
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However, nine states have pro–abortion rights "trigger laws," which would automatically protect the right to abortion.
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Like abortion access, there is absolutely no evidence that access to abortion or choice makes women unhappy.
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And both anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights advocates and politicians want to make sure they're prepared.
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Study after study has shown denying women abortion access doesn't end abortion: It drives the practice underground.
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With legal abortion hanging by a thread, it's time to show that same leadership on abortion rights.
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The top 10 issues, abortion, I don&apost think abortion is in the top 10, is it.
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Anti-abortion groups pushed back against critics who said Kavanaugh's comment signaled his personal views on abortion.
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At the time, abortion rights advocates accused Raimondo of passing what amounted to restrictions on abortion access.
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It's tough for abortion opponents to convince these people to share their outrage that abortion is legal.
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Scott DesJarlais, a Republican opponent of abortion rights, had urged his pregnant mistress to get an abortion.
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He has repeatedly argued he became anti-abortion late in life after having previously defended abortion rights.
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Abortion rights advocates said the measure targeted the state's only abortion provider, the Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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"The abortion industry is trying to make it sound like abortion is a joyful experience," he said.
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Anti-abortion advocates want to repeal Roe v Wade, the 1972 Supreme Court decision making abortion legal.
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Research shows that restricting abortion access doesn't make abortion less common—it just makes it less safe.
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Abortion rights advocates pushed back on the claims, stressing that abortion care is essential and time-sensitive.
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Abortion rights activists have also long criticized Google for doing business with anti-abortion centers at all.
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For abortion foes, there may be two victims of abortion, but some are more innocent than others.
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Some doctors and abortion rights advocates see a link between harassment and anti-abortion rhetoric from politicians.
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Likewise female health, since abortion restrictions are said to lead inexorably to countless illegal-abortion-related deaths.
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ENDANGERS ABORTION COVERAGE The bill bars anyone from using federal subsidies to buy insurance that covers abortion.
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Mr. Frelinghuysen once supported abortion rights but in recent years has voted to limit access to abortion.
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The abortion rights movement — made up of abortion providers, advocates, researchers, activists and patients — is not fractured.
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If abortion were criminalized, Elizabeth Warren said, that would not stop wealthy women from getting an abortion.
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John Bel Edwards in Louisiana is an anti-abortion governor who has signed abortion restrictions in Louisiana.
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The impact of restrictive anti-abortion laws and the shuttering of clinics on abortion rates was unclear.
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In the midwestern state of Missouri, which has strict abortion regulations, one licensed abortion provider remains open.
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That strategy, which abortion opponents countered with their own anecdotes, helped illustrate the stakes of abortion access.
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Hypocrisy that deep can't be excused by Trump's convenient switch from supporting abortion rights to opposing abortion.
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The anti-abortion movement has spent decades trying to make abortion seem separate from "regular" health care.
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Anti-abortion activists hope the high court will be more receptive to abortion restrictions following Kennedy's departure.
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An anti-abortion advocate explains why even the staunchest of abortion foes shouldn't vote for Roy Moore.
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Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists have targeted more than simply the restriction of abortion or its funding.
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Consider a promising recent development in abortion care: inserting an IUD (intrauterine device) immediately after an abortion.
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Several men saw the proliferation of anti-abortion provisions as pointless, especially since abortion, overall, remains legal.
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Anti-abortion groups aren't interested in waiting to learn more about Garland's unknown views on abortion rights.
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Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers are already barred from receiving federal funds to pay for abortion.
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While Planned Parenthood provides crucial women's healthcare well beyond abortion (only 22016% of Planned Parenthood's services are abortion services), abortion is a sticking point for many pro-lifers wishing to defund the organization, and the Hyde Amendment already ensures that federal funds cannot be used for abortion care.
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The abortion extremist rhetoric that celebrates abortion even post-birth, infanticide for babies born during an abortion, appeals to almost no one, despite the cheers in New York for abortion through all 9 months or the platitudes of Virginia's Governor who wants babies to be comfortable as they die.
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Instead of imposing medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion care, government officials should work to ensure that once a woman has made the decision to have an abortion, she has access to the care options that work for her — whether it's medication abortion or another form of abortion care.
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Mallory Quigley, the vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, said that bills limiting abortion introduced in states this year far outnumbered abortion rights measures, and noted that Democratic efforts to pass laws strengthening abortion rights had failed or stalled in some places.
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As Vox's Jane Coaston reported earlier this week, many anti-abortion conservatives believe Alabama's law may end up hurting the anti-abortion movement: [M]ost Republicans oppose legal abortion, though the majority support limitations on abortion that would still permit the procedure in the case of rape or incest.
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"Not until 21965, at about the same time that abortion became politicized in this country, did the church condemn abortion; in 21973, it condemned therapeutic abortion," meaning procedures to save a woman's life.
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The laws recently adopted to restrict abortion are about keeping women from having access to abortion, though often it is claimed, like in Texas, that they are about the safety of abortion procedures.
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Anti-abortion advocates have restricted women's access to safe and legal abortion under the guise of women's safety, including requiring abortion clinics to have admitting privileges to hospitals or be ambulatory surgical centers.
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The fund provides money, lodging, childcare, and transportation (even across state lines) for women who need help accessing abortion in a state with strict abortion laws and only one overwhelmed, underfunded abortion clinic.
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Do they oppose aborting viable babies, infants targeted because of their sex or genetics, infanticide for babies born during abortion, full-taxpayer funding of abortion, or forcing abortion into citizen's health-care policies?
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Zika and abortion Even so, abortion has remained a hot-button issue in the US -- which is why the question of abortion gets raised in Zika-related conversations with staunch conservatives like Rubio.
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"Abortion is a constitutional right, abortion is health care and abortion is my decision," Halsey says in the video, adding that access to reproductive care continues to be legal in all 50 sates.
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If this happens, 2240 states could criminalize abortion immediately, and only nine states have included the right to abortion in their respective state constitutions to protect abortion access in the absence of Roe.
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As extreme abortion bans emerge from conservative states, pro-choice advocates and providers have emphasized that no six-week abortion ban has ever gone into effect—and neither has an outright abortion ban.
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The Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion policy and supports abortion rights, said five other states have laws requiring abortion clinics to meet the ambulatory surgical center requirements: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Utah.
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But they're receiving more attention now as a wave of restrictive anti-abortion laws sweep the country and abortion opponents seek to overturn the Supreme Court's landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade.
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Mallory Quigley, a spokeswoman for the anti-abortion rights Susan B. Anthony List, said it was notable that pro-abortion rights legislators were suddenly worried about the fate of abortion laws in court.
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HB 1510 will make abortion completely illegal at 15 weeks gestation, a full seven weeks earlier than the federal 20-week abortion ban that the anti-abortion movement is focused on passing nationally.
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Twenty-eight states require abortion clinics to carry written informed consent brochures containing information about alternatives to abortion, the risks associated with abortion, and fetal development stages—all information selected, again, by legislators.
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New Mexico, already referred to by many anti-abortion advocates as the "late-term abortion capital" of the country, recently passed a bill in the House that decriminalizes abortion at the state level.
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Risks from the abortion pills include possible heavy bleeding and, in rare cases, the abortion may fail, requiring follow up with surgical abortion, according to the Mayo Clinic, a prominent U.S. hospital system.
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Abortion rights advocates are also concerned that the lack of Supreme Court protection for abortion laws could also facilitate increased restrictions, including bans on insurance that covers abortion, restrictions on access to the abortion pill, the "morning-after pill," or long-acting contraceptive methods considered by some anti-abortion groups to be "abortifacients," a claim that many medical groups and professionals say is inaccurate.
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But before and after Casey, Kennedy consistently voted to uphold state regulations of abortion including requirements that women undergo a waiting period before obtaining an abortion, that minors notify or obtain the consent of parents before obtaining an abortion, that doctors provide women information about abortion before performing the procedure, and that state funds and state personnel could be prohibited from providing abortions or counseling about abortion.
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The letter contains five specific demands for HHS during the pandemic: ensuring that emergency response funds are not given to abortion providers, urging abortion providers to cease operations in order to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE) for treating Covid-19 patients, not expanding telemedicine for medication abortion access, continuing actions to stop mail-order abortion prescriptions, and promoting "medically accurate" information to abortion care patients.
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If even one or two members of either House take Stupak's position, Democrats could be forced to choose between single-payer with no abortion coverage (which would greatly restrict abortion access and enrage abortion rights groups) and a system in which literally every abortion is paid for by the federal government, enraging anti-abortion groups and likely greatly increasing the number of abortions performed.
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Abortion: Stories Women Tell is a feature-length film that explores abortion from the perspectives of real women.
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Alabama joins other states' crackdown on abortion rights Other states have also enacted controversial laws to restrict abortion.
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Anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers redoubled their efforts to cast adoption as the pro-life alternative to abortion.
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Since January, 250 abortion restrictions have been introduced, all with the intent on limiting access to abortion care.
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New law says abortion is illegal after 8 weeks The abortion debate in Missouri heated up after Gov.
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These data points might suggest Democrats and abortion rights activists have the upper hand in the abortion debate.
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States adding abortion protections At the same time, states controlled by Democrats have moved to add abortion protections.
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Washington (CNN)Abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit Friday challenging that Georgia's controversial ban on abortion is unconstitutional.
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Because of Kayla's experience having an abortion at 15, she now works as an abortion doula to teenagers.
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Read these stories next: Iowa Bans Abortion At 6 Weeks How Do Pro-Life Latinas Feel About Abortion?
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Thomas acknowledged Sanger wasn't talking about abortion, but he wrote that her arguments could also apply to abortion.
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The fact that abortion is currently illegal in Ireland does not mean that abortion does not happen there.
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Abortion -- TBD On Friday, the justices announced they were adding the explosive issue of abortion to the docket.
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The media has not asked them a single question on abortion and on abortion, the Democrats are extremists.
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Only MSNBC featured more pro-choice speakers than abortion opponents, or more accurate than inaccurate statements about abortion.
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The bill also banned abortion in cases of "disability," which meant outlawing abortion in case of fetal anomaly.
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States with multiple abortion restrictions place abortion out of reach, particularly for women struggling to make ends meet.
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Abortion opponents allege the federal family planning program in effect cross-subsidizes abortion services provided by Planned Parenthood.
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This Humans Of New York Story Makes A Powerful Point About Abortion The Last Abortion Clinic In Mississippi
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Today, a woman who has decided to manage her own abortion may choose to buy abortion pills online.
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The problem with trying to pass laws to make abortion safer is that abortion is already very safe.
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A second-trimester abortion may cost more than twice as much as a first-trimester abortion, or more.
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That included parenting, adoption, and abortion — including, if the patient wanted one, a referral to an abortion provider.
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Under Nigerian law, it's legal to provide information on post-abortion care, but not to abortion services themselves.
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WATCH: 'The Abortion Pill,' our documentary about how non-surgical, medical abortion is harder to access than ever.
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They are the latest step in a campaign by anti-abortion extremists who want to outlaw abortion altogether.
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The trend was seen whether or not they received a conventional aspiration abortion or a drug-induced abortion.
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One, being positive about abortion, and the other being almost like a check mark — 'I've had an abortion.
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Some of the biggest drivers of abortion clinic closures are targeted regulation of abortion providers, or TRAP, laws.
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It only applies in cases where an abortion has already been completed, the right to abortion already exercised.
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Abortion has been legal in Nepal since 2002, and post-abortion care has been successfully integrated into hospitals.
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Still, the Trump administration and anti-abortion groups argue that abortion providers should not receive any federal funding.
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Abortion is also common — one in four women in this country will have an abortion in her lifetime.
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While these types of laws aren't currently able to criminalize abortion, they would ban abortion if Roe v.
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The abortion debate has intensified following a series of new abortion restrictions in a number of U.S. states.
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Guttmacher defines abortion clinics as facilities where half or more of the patient visits are for abortion services.
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States are working overtime to cut off abortion access, quietly passing more than 400 abortion restrictions since 2011.
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Some abortion rights advocates say there should not be room in the party for candidates opposed to abortion.
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Restrictive abortion laws do not prevent abortion; by the same token, liberal laws do not increase its incidence.
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But changes in abortion rates didn't directly correlate with state restrictions on abortion, or the number of clinics.
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In short: Contrary to a key message in the anti-abortion movement, abortion does not harm people's health.
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We will show their 'consumer client' [women accessing abortion care] what they would never dare to— abortion reality.
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But anti-abortion groups' optimism — and abortion-rights advocates' fears — go far beyond June Medical Services v. Russo.
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Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), has opposed abortion in the past, though she now says she supports abortion rights.
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Abortion opponents often focus on the lurid details of certain abortion procedures in an attempt to outlaw them.
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Countries with restrictive national legislation have higher rates of unsafe abortion and more need for post-abortion care.
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All four have publicly shared their abortion stories before in order to push back against anti-abortion laws.
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Flynn co-authored HB2, the omnibus anti-abortion bill that has closed about half of Texas's abortion clinics.
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Again, anti-abortion advocates don't typically argue that we should throw women in jail for getting an abortion.
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Abortion foes and Republican politicians consciously tried to redefine Roe, equating the decision with abortion and judicial activism.
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Wade legalized abortion in the United States, politicians have been relentless in attacking the constitutional right to abortion.
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Under English law, women must take the first of two pills required for abortion in an abortion clinic.
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South Korea's high court overturned a ban on abortion in April, while Ireland legalized abortion in a referendum.
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The demand for "therapeutic abortion" for pregnant women afflicted with rubella led California to legalize abortion in 1967.
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She went to her school's health center, was referred to an abortion clinic, and got a medication abortion.
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South Korea's high court overturned a ban on abortion in April, while Ireland legalized abortion in a referendum.
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Fear of anti-abortion violence and harassment has led to many hospitals denying admitting privileges to abortion providers.
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Abortion Mississippi's just a step away from having one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation.
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Wade, which could shutter abortion clinics in hostile states, Virginia will now be a sanctuary for abortion access.
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Luft reacted negatively, so Garland felt pressured into getting an abortion — her second abortion forced by a lover.
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No women are currently serving time for abortion prosecuted at the federal level, according to abortion-rights activists.
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Trump, who years earlier had supported abortion rights, cast himself as a committed abortion opponent on religious grounds.
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Wade, the 21 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, misattributed a passage about abortion.
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Anti-abortion demonstrations in some cities this month were met with much larger crowds of abortion rights supporters.
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Wade, which legalized abortion, to be overturned, and few Republican election officials support abortion rights in all cases.
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Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, misattributed a passage about abortion.
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Anti-abortion activists nationwide still believe they have their best chance in years to aggressively curb abortion access.
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Starting in the 1990s, abortion foes increasingly stressed arguments that abortion caused breast cancer and damaged women's psyches.
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But because abortion is so safe, abortion providers almost never have to admit their patients to a hospital.
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He's voted to uphold abortion rights in the past, more or less, but he also really hates abortion.
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Some anti-abortion bills passed recently, such as a ban on abortion at any stage of pregnancy in Alabama, contain language that ensures pregnant people themselves will not face criminal penalties for seeking abortion.
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For the past few decades, abortion funds have been vital for women seeking abortions in states with few abortion clinics and highly restrictive anti-abortion laws, especially low-income women and women of color.
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Delgado, who opposes abortion and who has championed abortion reversal for years, claims the abortion will stop midway if a woman doesn't take the misoprostol and instead takes several doses of the hormone progesterone.
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Those numbers align closely with the country's ideological split on abortion: In a Gallup poll conducted that March, 47 percent of Americans said they supported abortion rights, while 453 percent said they opposed abortion.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, ambulatory surgery centers typically perform riskier procedures than abortion clinics, and laws applying ASC standards to abortion facilities are generally aimed at reducing abortion access, not improving patient care.
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The leadership shakeup comes as the reproductive rights organization leads multiple court fights against various state laws restricting abortion, including Alabama's near-total abortion ban and six-week abortion bans in Georgia and Ohio.
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Abortion access doesn't seem to be getting any easier, but this study may help make abortion by mail an alternative for women who may be unable to travel long distances to get abortion care.
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In a major ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court struck down parts of a Texas law that could have led to the closure of many abortion facilities, setting a precedent for abortion access nationwide.
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"It took a while to see the impact" of state laws imposing regulations on abortion providers, said Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion policy and supports abortion rights.
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If you went around telling abortion opponents that you would ban abortion and abortion-rights advocates that you would give abortions out free, the two sides might notice you were promising two incompatible policies.
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The clash over abortion materialized at the protest as slogans of "My body, my choice" from Kavanaugh dissenters were met with chants of "Abortion is murder" from a handful of anti-abortion rights counterprotesters.
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Shout Your Abortion, a coalition that advocates for abortion rights, on Saturday projected messages such as "Abortion is Freedom" and "F--- your wall" onto Trump Tower and the Union Square building in New York.
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Access to abortion, which includes medication abortion and surgical procedures, has shrunk in the U.S., with 03% of all counties lacking an abortion provider as of 20, the study team notes in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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But if you're searching Google Maps, the only so-called "abortion clinic" in town is Arkansas Right to Life, an anti-abortion organization that lobbies the state Legislature and supports anti-abortion political candidates.
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Senate Republicans recently attempted to turn anti-abortion propaganda into law with the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which mandated medical care for infants born after a botched abortion, an extraordinarily rare occurrence.
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Abortion rights groups say that method is the country's safest abortion procedure in the second trimester, and even some anti-abortion groups have opposed prohibiting it, fearing that doing so will prompt legal challenges.
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Recent data from the non-profit National Abortion Federation (NAF) shows a considerable uptick in anti-abortion activity in 2018 — including everything from internet harassment and hate mail to picketing and obstructing abortion clinics.
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As of March 2016, eight states ban abortion for reasons of sex selection, one state prohibits abortion for reasons of race, and one state prohibits abortion when the fetus may have a genetic anomaly.
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According to the Abortion Care Network report, more than 82 percent of indie clinics offer both medication abortion and in-clinic abortion care, whereas just 44 percent of non-indie clinics offer both options.
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According to the latest report from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) there were 18 plotlines where a character has an abortion, discloses a past abortion, or considers getting an abortion this year.
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Often in TV and film, the person getting an abortion is childless — this includes both anti-abortion films like the 2019 biopic Unplanned, and TV shows with pro-abortion rights views like Hulu's Shrill.
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But the decision — which is technically about free speech, not abortion — suggests that state regulations on abortion providers' speech — which anti-abortion groups have long championed — may soon be in the Supreme Court's crosshairs.
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In an event organized by ROSA and supported by the Dutch-based Women on Web, an organization that supplies abortion pills to women in countries where abortion is banned, activists swallowed abortion pills in Belfast to protest Northern Ireland's abortion laws, before traveling across Northern Ireland on the aptly named Bus4Choice.
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"Requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital ignores the fact that abortion is very safe and patients rarely require emergency care, and that admitting privileges can sometimes be impossible for abortion providers to obtain," according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, a nonprofit abortion-rights organization.
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Many believe the passing of Alabama's abortion law is a deliberate ploy by abortion opponents to allow for an abortion case to reach the now conservative-leaning Supreme Court and potentially overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Indiana: Bill would criminalize abortion A legislator says he will file a bill that will outlaw all forms of abortion and allow criminal charges to be filed against people who participate in an abortion procedure.
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Abortion opponents hope such a lawsuit could bring the divisive abortion issue back before the U.S. Supreme Court in the belief that the 5-4 conservative majority could curtail abortion access or ban it outright.
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And on the issue of abortion, Kasich's loyalties are unequivocal: He signed no fewer than 16 new anti-abortion provisions into Ohio law, including one barring abortion providers from seeking admitting privileges with public hospitals.
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Kentucky's Republican governor, Matt Bevin, has effectively shut down abortion clinics and kept an existing Planned Parenthood from providing abortion procedures, leaving the E.M.W. Women's Surgical Center as the only abortion provider in the state.
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Abortion coverage has always been a sticking point in any debate over the Affordable Care Act — anti-abortion Democrats frustration with abortion provisions in the original text nearly sunk the law altogether, back in 2010.
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" Anti-abortion groups like Susan B. Anthony List also defended HHS's decision not to enable the teenager to get an abortion, saying that any other decision would turn Texas into a "sanctuary state for abortion.
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The Guttmacher Institute, a research organisation that supports abortion rights, notes that 15 years ago only 13 states had four or five abortion restrictions on the books, enough to be considered "hostile" toward abortion rights.
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Restricting Medicaid coverage of abortion forces one in four poor women seeking an abortion to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, and women who are denied abortion access are more likely to fall into poverty.
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The Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH Woman) Act would restore Medicaid abortion coverage so that our country's poorest women no longer face a financial barrier to safe and legal abortion care.
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Pro-life or pro-choice Another way to frame the abortion debate is whether people self-identify as "pro-life" -- people who don't support abortion rights -- or "pro-choice" -- people who do support abortion rights.
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These extraordinary tensions in the always-tense abortion debate may help explain why a Trump official who helped craft anti-abortion policy found her confirmation jeopardized by critics who worried she wasn't anti-abortion enough.
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Abortion rights supporters called it the earliest abortion ban in the country, and said it was an unconstitutional restriction that defied years of federal court precedent over the limits states may impose on abortion providers.
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If the landmark abortion decision is overturned or substantially weakened, states will be able to enforce abortion restrictions that would have been blocked by courts in the past, including bans on abortion before fetal viability.
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Today, as more and more states work to roll back abortion rights, over 2129 episodes of TV portraying a character either getting an abortion, or disclosing a past abortion, have aired so far in 212019.
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" The amendment also says the constitution "does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.
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Comparing abortion to slavery, which Ben Carson also did, has been a meme in anti-abortion activism for decades.
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Two, the Church's anti-abortion directives can have troubling health consequences for women who don't even want an abortion.
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I usually say, look we're an abortion group, I don't know if you want to be the 'abortion hotel.
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Broadly, many Republicans seek to restrict abortion or make it illegal while Democrats have fought to keep abortion legal.
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Abortion Restrictions State By State Learn more about the abortion services and the specific restrictions available state by state.
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Donate To Abortion Funds & Clinics These reproductive rights organizations help make abortion more accessible, especially for lower-income women.
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Murphy had co-sponsored a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks and had a staunch anti-abortion voting record.
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Pro–abortion rights and anti-abortion campaigners had already begun battling it out over Lucía's case on social media.
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Conflating Plan B with abortion is an anti-abortion talking point that medical groups are continuously working to debunk.
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Anti-abortion protesters rally against a proposed law to legalize abortion in Argentina, in Buenos Aires on June 13.
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The restrictive abortion law comes after Missouri's eight-week abortion ban was blocked by a federal judge last year.
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Now, abortion rights activists believe they have a unique chance to wrest back those state legislatures from abortion opponents.
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READ: 'I am honestly scared to death': Small abortion clinics are fighting for survival over Trump's new abortion rules.
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This amounts to an abortion gag rule, restricting what Title X recipients can say about abortion to their patients.
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Religion and abortion are two topics that have had a complicated relationship with each other — particularly Christianity and abortion.
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Formerly pro-choice, Trump said his thinking on abortion has evolved over the years and he's now anti-abortion.
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She also resisted using the word "abortion" as a stand-alone term, preferring "abortion care" or other phrases entirely.
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This is called a "missed abortion" or an "incomplete abortion" if only part of the tissue leaves the uterus.
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Blackburn has a 0% rating from abortion rights groups, and she frequently introduced or cosponsored strict anti-abortion legislation.
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"There is a misperception that women are uncertain about their abortion decisions," said Saporta, of the National Abortion Federation.
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According to Vice, Lloyd (a longtime anti-abortion advocate), reportedly suggested a controversial treatment to reverse Doe's medication abortion.
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In Texas and elsewhere, anti-abortion activists have recently ramped up efforts to close abortion clinics across the country.
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While she spoke out in support of abortion rights in the 1980s, she later became an opponent of abortion.
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Historically, restrictions on legal abortion have resulted in maternal death due to increases in the frequency of unsafe abortion.
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Go deeper: Where 2020 Democrats stand on abortion policy Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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The 1967 Abortion Act doesn't mean guarantee abortion on demand, though that's how the general public often interprets it.
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Abortion opponents maintain that laws like the ones in Texas were necessary because they made abortion safer for women.
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"There are abortion clinics that solely provide abortion services, but Planned Parenthood is not one of them," she said.
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"You're here to pray for at abortion clinic, or you're here to go to the abortion clinic?" he asks.
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Abortion in the South Alabama and Georgia recently passed some of the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country.
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She's even volunteered as an abortion doula to fight abortion stigma and offer support for women undergoing the procedure.
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Abortion rights groups say that has reduced access to abortion, particularly in rural areas of the South and Midwest.
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CPCs also intentionally open near real abortion clinics, and even open up in spaces formerly occupied by abortion clinics.
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WATCH: Full interview with Jane Doe on her abortion battle Ultimately, however, Poe decided she did want an abortion.
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Wade, hospitals shied away from providing abortion services due to intense stigma and political maneuvering by anti-abortion activists.
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Wade, hospitals shied away from providing abortion services due to intense stigma and political maneuvering by anti-abortion activists.
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Planned Parenthood urged abortion-rights supporters to call on the Senate to reject any anti-abortion nominee Trump selects.
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It is very difficult to accurately measure abortion and abortion-related mortality, especially in countries where it is illegal.
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Texas is an abortion wasteland—and not in the cool way, because absent context "Abortion Wasteland" sounds pretty cool.
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Anti-abortion Republicans act like abortion is so morally toxic that any money flowing anywhere near it becomes tainted.
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Anti-abortion groups have supported Lloyd's approach, arguing that the U.S. should not be a "sanctuary nation" for abortion.
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In 1993, Operation Rescue ("If you believe abortion is murder, act like it's murder") was protesting outside abortion clinics.
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The rules extend to practices that refer women to abortion facilities or promote abortion as a family planning method.
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Google Maps is still pointing people who search for abortion clinics to anti-abortion groups, a new report found.
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It is a smokescreen behind which abortion extremists continue to distort the abortion debate and twist the judicial system.
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It is also sure to energize anti-abortion forces and make abortion a central issue in the presidential campaign.
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The legislation would repeal both the state's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Illinois Abortion Act of 1975.
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And he's criticized the National Right to Life, a powerful anti-abortion organization, for supporting more moderate abortion legislation.
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I participated in a pro-life rally where I held signs saying 'Abortion Kills Babies' and 'Abortion Hurts Women.
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To find a list of abortion funds by state, check out the National Network of Abortion Fund's interactive map.
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Opponents to abortion, who often call the D&E procedure a "dismemberment abortion," celebrated news of the law's progression.
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An increasing number of young women have had an abortion, or have a friend who has had an abortion.
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Omaha mayoral candidate Heath Mello, who opposes abortion rights, caused controversy among Democrats and abortion-rights groups when Sen.
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And delays in accessing abortion service can put pregnant people outside the time limits imposed by restrictive abortion laws.
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Evidence shows that this policy denies access to safe abortion but it does not decrease the prevalence of abortion.
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Sanders's statement is misleading at best, and pushes extreme rhetoric about abortion that has motivated violence against abortion providers.
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More abortion opponents should be willing to acknowledge that treating abortion as murder necessarily means treating women as murderers.
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The ruling on Friday drew outrage from opponents of abortion and words of caution from supporters of abortion rights.
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Threats and other harassment against abortion providers have been rising for several years, according to the National Abortion Federation.
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The anti-abortion cause didn't promote itself as "pro-life" until the more punitive-sounding "anti-abortion" label failed.
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People who have questions about accessing an abortion in their state should contact their local abortion fund, she said.
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Mor, California: The most outrageous of these abortion laws is the one from Indiana, outlawing abortion of defective fetuses.
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In 2010, he spoke against legalizing abortion for victims of rape, saying it would lead to abortion on demand.
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It could have strengthened abortion rights, moving toward viewing abortion rights as a matter of equal protection for women.
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It's a fair prediction; women died before Roe, and where abortion is illegal, unsafe abortion leads to maternal death.
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While multiple states tightened the restrictions on abortion, other states, like New York, Virginia and Maine, expanded abortion access.
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We cannot allow the real, complex needs of abortion-seeking women to get lost in today's polarized abortion debate.
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" Ms. Warren has proposed an "aggressive" abortion rights platform and said on Twitter that "abortion rights are human rights.
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Many of those laws were immediately challenged in federal court by abortion rights advocates — challenges abortion rights opponents welcome.
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Even in states that passed abortion bans, there has been and continues to be widespread opposition to banning abortion.
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That's especially the case with abortion, where being against abortion rights seems like a nonstarter in the Democratic Party.
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Abortion restrictions were on the rise; in 2011, 36 states enacted new laws restricting access to safe, legal abortion.
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Pence touted President Trump's commitment to promoting an anti-abortion agenda and nominating an anti-abortion Supreme Court justice.
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A few years ago, Carter said, most abortion opponents accepted the idea that abortion restrictions should include such exceptions.
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Wade legalized abortion nationwide, only 12 percent of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs at the time included abortion training.
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Additionally, many women will be too far along for a medication abortion or might prefer a non-medication abortion.
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States are also supposed to cover the pill that induces abortion, Mifeprex, when an abortion is available under Medicaid.
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Anti-abortion lobbyists keep helping them come up with new ways to restrict abortion, or to expand existing restrictions.
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Briefs filed by 207 members of Congress and Louisiana legislators paint a horrific picture of the reality of abortion in that state: "Immediate jeopardy" situations in several abortion facilities; women so horrifically injured that they needed hysterectomies following their abortion; a woman allowed to bleed for eight days following a chemical abortion before an abortion mill staffer picked her up at her home and brought her to the hospital.
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As Vox's Jane Coaston reported, many anti-abortion conservatives think Alabama's abortion law goes too far, and that it may actually damage their cause: To be clear, most Republicans oppose legal abortion, though the majority support limitations on abortion that would still permit the procedure in the case of rape or incest.
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Leslie McGorman, deputy policy director at Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights group, said abortion rights groups likely would mount a court challenge if the Mississippi measure became law, and anti-abortion organizations then could use the case to test the limits of abortion all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Two other abortion-related measures are also still pending in the Texas legislature: One bill would require abortion providers to give the state more information about their patients, while the other would ban government organizations from contracting with clinics affiliated with abortion providers — even if the clinics themselves don't actually perform abortion.
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He also said abortion should be largely banned, that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v Wade legalizing abortion should be overturned and that he would appoint an anti-abortion justice to the nation's highest court.
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"If the legislators who are pushing for [a 20-week abortion ban] were serious about trying to reduce later abortion, they would do more work to improve access to early abortion," he told Refinery29 in January.
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Wen's departure comes in the midst of an intense uptick in the fight over abortion rights, as states have passed restrictive anti-abortion laws in recent months, including one in Alabama that outlaws abortion almost entirely.
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Rick Perry once declared at an anti-abortion rally in Austin that his goal was to "make abortion, at any stage, a thing of the past" and that the ideal world was a world without abortion.
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It's time for the Democratic party to drop the abortion extremism and listen to the American people, who want substantial abortion restrictions, no taxpayer funding of abortion, and inclusivity within their party for pro-life Democrats.
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"I am absolutely appalled by any proposal that would suggest prosecuting a woman for seeking an abortion or obtaining an abortion," Catherine Glenn Foster, president of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life, told Vox.
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Another -- House Bill 1032, known as the Arkansas Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act -- prohibits dismemberment abortion, also known as dilation and evacuation abortion, which is the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.
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The researchers analyzed the requests for abortion medications submitted to Women on Web (WoW), a nonprofit organization that provides abortion medications like mifepristone and misoprostol to women in countries where safe abortion is not universally available.
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As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a new abortion case and Missouri teeters on the brink of losing its last abortion clinic, the U.S. House called a hearing Thursday to learn more about abortion access.
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"To me, these candidates recognize that not only do we need to protect abortion rights, we also need to ensure that women have access to abortion care and abortion coverage through their health insurance," she said.
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As partisans on both sides of the abortion divide contemplate a Supreme Court with two Trump appointees, one thing is certain: America even without legal abortion would be very different from America before abortion was legal.
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The abortion rate is a bigger-picture snapshot of how common abortion is among women every year, while the abortion ratio gives us a sense of how many women who get pregnant decide to stay pregnant.
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"Abortion speakouts" date back to the 1969 Redstockings Abortion Speakout, which sparked a wave of similar events where women spoke out about their then-illegal abortions to show the harms of abortion bans to real women.
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Over the following decades, as abortion became further entrenched in the American culture wars, a handful of anti-abortion lawmakers, like former Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, called for abortion providers to receive the death penalty.
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Many Catholic Democrats in government have cited their faith in explaining their personal opposition to abortion while taking stands to support abortion rights — and, in some cases, also holding positions in favor of some abortion restrictions.
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The Food and Drug Administration's restrictions on mifepristone—one of two drugs involved in the abortion pill regimen—make it illegal to sell abortion pills online, and some states have laws explicitly criminalizing self-managed abortion.
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The biggest takeaway for me from my abortion experience was balancing my past of being such an outspoken reproductive justice and abortion rights activist [in college], with going through the actual process of getting an abortion.
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But, of course, the controversy over abortion didn't end, and anti-abortion groups and legislators embarked on the strategy they still use today: imposing a variety of restrictions on abortion without trying to ban it outright.
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Instead of quietly regulating abortion out of existence using obscure "admitting privileges" or "ambulatory surgical center" laws, anti-abortion activists are shifting back to visceral, often misleading rhetoric that both humanizes the fetus and demonizes abortion.
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But the Court doesn't need a near-total ban on abortion to revisit Roe; nearly any case involving abortion rights could provide an opportunity for the justices to reconsider, and potentially overturn, the landmark abortion decision.
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" The amendment adds that the state constitution "does not protect the right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.
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But Schoen, who supports abortion rights and has written a book called "Abortion after Roe," argues the comparison is invalid.
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The accelerating politics in statehouses reflects Trump's opposition to abortion rights and pledge to appoint justices who oppose abortion rights.
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Anti-abortion Republicans like Trent Franks will talk about how many black or Hispanic babies have been "murdered" by abortion.
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He obviously had the abortion cases he did, but he also voted to uphold the federal partial birth abortion ban.
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LONDON — Abortion rights campaigners plan to fly a drone carrying abortion pills from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland.
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This isn't the first time a drone carrying abortion pills has been flown into a country with restrictive abortion laws.
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After several states passed restrictive abortion legislation, women are bravely sharing their stories, hoping to shed the stigma around abortion.
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Wade legalized abortion nationwide in 1973, but if it's overturned, abortion wouldn't immediately become illegal everywhere in the United States.
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For many pro-life politicians, the answer to high abortion rates is to make abortion illegal or harder to get.
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Many Republicans would like to stop abortion from happening altogether, but they can't do that directly since abortion is legal.
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Fire from anti-abortion groups Throughout his campaign, Trump has faced questions about the authenticity of his position on abortion.
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However, patients should be aware of anti-abortion centers posing as abortion clinics targeting women who are looking for abortions.
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Wade decision that legalized abortion across the country — are anti-abortion organizations that offer varying degrees of reproductive medical care.
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While Orthodox organizations supporting the broad legalization of abortion are less common, they too have been involved in abortion politics.
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The notion that when it comes to restricting abortion, facts shouldn't count, is to give "abortion exceptionalism" a new meaning.
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She contacted an abortion clinic in England, which told her about two drugs available online that would induce an abortion.
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In recent months, abortion opponents have been turning their focus away from near-total abortion bans like the Pennsylvania bill.
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Abortion Trump's response Wednesday on punishments for abortion isn't the first time Trump has changed his tune on the issue.
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Still, abortion rights advocates fear that overturning Roe could lead to a revival of Massachusetts' 19th century law against abortion.
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Certain states restrict private insurers from covering abortion, while other states require women to undergo counseling before having an abortion.
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The group National Research on Abortion (PNA) shows that at least one in five women has already had an abortion.
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Abortion: Proposed a plan to require states that restrict abortion access to clear new reproductive health laws with the DOJ.
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Jameela Jamil disclosed she had an abortion after last week's signing of a controversial six-week abortion ban in Georgia.
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But since the Republican Party is becoming more and more hostile to abortion rights, abortion would remain a national issue.
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He said he would not condone abortion for women affected by Zika, and called abortion "a crime, an absolute evil."
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The research revealed 27 "abortion deserts," cities in the U.S. that are 100 miles or more from an abortion clinic.
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In the past 10 years, Sisson said, anti-abortion advocates have increasingly cast abortion restrictions as efforts to protect women.
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While the high court legalized abortion more than four decades ago, abortion remains a contentious issue in the United States.
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South Korea's high court overturned a ban on abortion in April, while Ireland legalized abortion in a referendum last year.
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His abortion clinic was firebombed in June 1986 and, in 2009, Tiller was murdered by anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder.
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Allowing someone else veto power over a woman's abortion just doesn't make sense to Amber Bell, an abortion rights advocate.
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Illinois law requires all physicians to provide referrals to patients for abortion services regardless of their moral opposition to abortion.
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The committee also heard testimony about the link between abortion and breast cancer, a widely used anti-abortion misinformation tactic.
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Later, in the 1960s, some states loosened their abortion laws — allowing abortion in certain circumstances — in reaction to social changes.
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Early medical abortion, a nonsurgical abortion at 8 weeks or less gestation, accounted for nearly 25% of abortions in 2015.
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Both abortion-rights and anti-abortion groups are looking to make the issue a decisive one in the November midterms.
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Lawyers for abortion providers said they picked their shots and sued in places where regulations would most curtail abortion availability.
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The abortion rights group launched a digital ad in late September tying the three to Trump's past comments on abortion.
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Abortion counseling, referral and family planning programs continued to operate out of abortion businesses under former Presidents Bush and Obama.
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Unlike her, his views on abortion, as The Hill recently reported, seem likely to disconcert abortion-rights groups as well.
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"Right now, we're seeing some regrouping by abortion opponents to continue to push the envelope on abortion bans," she said.
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Abortion rights advocates have filed lawsuits against multiple states, including Alabama and Georgia, that have recently passed restrictive abortion laws.
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What's striking though is that abortion rates are similar in countries where abortion is banned and where it is legal.
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Ginsburg directly answered questions on abortion and affirmatively declared the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion in her confirmation hearing.
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The law requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a hospital located within 30 miles of the abortion clinic.
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An even greater number of Democrats support banning late-term abortion after five months and oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
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Last year, the high court threw out a Texas abortion access law, which required abortion clinics to have surgical facilities.
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Estimates of the number of illegal terminations vary widely, from 10,000 to 120,000, from anti-abortion and abortion rights groups.
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"Late-term abortion" isn't a medical term, Anuj Khattar, an abortion provider based in Washington, explained to Broadly last month.
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An anti-abortion advocate who believes abortion is immoral and should be illegal, but gets one herself, is a hypocrite.
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Anti-abortion forces are often inspired by a religious conviction that life begins at conception and see abortion as murder.
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The bill also banned abortion in cases of "disability," which meant outlawing abortion even in cases of serious fetal anomaly.
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The term "partial-birth abortion" has long been used to discuss dilation and evacuation, a common second-trimester abortion procedure.
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But anti-abortion advocates rebranded the procedure as "partial-birth" abortion and focused on the unpleasant details of the procedure.
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After Trump's inauguration, Republican state legislators began passing increasingly restrictive abortion laws, banning abortion after 15 weeks or even earlier.
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Wade legalized abortion in 1973, and their bans on "taxpayer-funded abortion" are deeply important to the pro-life movement.
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The debate over whether Rao was anti-abortion enough "speaks volumes" about the state of abortion politics today, Tobias said.
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Some commentators argue that anti-abortion groups are not being held to the same stringent standard as abortion-rights groups.
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Also stigma [against abortion] can be so strong, even in countries where abortion is legal, that women jeopardize their health.
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The Illinois legislature, on the other hand, has declared abortion a "fundamental right" and removed sundry regulations on abortion clinics.
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The vast majority are bills to restrict access to abortion, though a couple are efforts to shore up abortion rights.
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And abortion providers indeed started to die — not in the death chamber, but at the hands of anti-abortion extremists.
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Amid the anti-abortion measures being pushed through state legislatures, consider the mazy history of abortion in the United States.
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And if abortion rights supporters have been radicalized by Kavanaugh's confirmation, some anti-abortion advocates have been emboldened as well.
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Still, abortion rights advocates and medical professionals are taking the legislation seriously, since abortion foes are working hard for it.
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They adopted the slogan "Legal abortion prevents deaths," which cleverly turns the abortion-rights position into a pro-life stand.
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Murphy, who is outspokenly anti-abortion, allegedly asked the woman with whom he had an affair to get an abortion.
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Reducing abortion rates has been a priority for Trump, and his administration argues family planning funds shouldn't support abortion providers.
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They also, she said, sometimes heard the increasingly common anti-abortion message that abortion is a conspiracy against black people.
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That hasn't stopped anti-abortion activists from continuing to call into question the ethics of abortion providers or procurement companies.
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The plaintiffs in these cases are an abortion clinic and two physicians who wish to provide abortion care in Louisiana.
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Abortion is society's easy way out — its way of avoiding grappling with the fundamental injustices driving women to abortion clinics.
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When he was talking about abortion rights, and who's punishable, it reminded me of an episode we did on abortion.
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States have passed more than 2628 abortion restriction measures since 28503, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights.
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But the truth is that these clinics do more to reduce abortion rates than any army of anti-abortion demonstrators.
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Activists on both sides of the abortion debate see California's vote as a new step in national abortion-rights strategy.
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The story of abortion regulation and criminalization in the U.S. begins, in some ways, with the sale of abortion pills.
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Abortion rights advocates say the Trump administration&aposs involvement in the anti-abortion movement threatens safety and basic human rights.
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For other institutions, in countries where abortion is legally available, it prevents them from performing or referring for abortion services.
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If the measure is passed, abortion rights advocates fear it could compel insurers to stop offering abortion coverage at all.
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Pro-choice groups are concerned, though people who oppose abortion personally, including Kennedy, still sometimes vote against curtailing abortion rights.
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In a 7-2 vote, the Justices struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, effectively legalizing abortion across the country.
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Anti-abortion groups have long backed such a rule, arguing that organizations that provide abortion should not receive federal support.
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"We either want to ban abortion outright or see abortion as good, as empowering," he said of society in general.
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It also threatens to dismantle the entire private insurance market for abortion coverage, not just public funding for abortion providers.
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If you're writing a piece about your abortion activism, using the word abortion over and over again doesn't read well.
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Tim Murphy, who reportedly urged his mistress to get an abortion despite being publicly against abortion, will resign on Oct.
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Anti-abortion Republicans sometimes act like abortion is so morally toxic that any money flowing anywhere near it becomes tainted.
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Tony Evers, a Democrat, but also upping the emotional ante in discussions of abortion by implying that abortion is not only murder -- a common refrain of those opposed to abortion -- but more specifically, murder meant as punishment.
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The state's Supreme Court ruling marked a major victory for abortion rights activists as the decision ensures abortion would remain legal in Kansas even if the federal law that establishes a national right to abortion — Roe v.
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Trump said in an MSNBC town hall that women should face "some form of punishment" for getting an abortion should the procedure be outlawed -- a statement that united anti-abortion activists and abortion rights supporters in condemnation.
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Blackburn is a solid, pro-Trump conservative in all respects, though it'll be interesting to see how abortion plays out here — she's a darling of the anti-abortion crowd and a top villain among abortion rights groups.
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I have counseled and cared for women who have chosen to manage their own abortion for reasons that have ranged from difficulty accessing abortion services in their community to a desire to avoid an in-clinic abortion.
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As the reasons an individual may decide to self-manage their own abortion have varied, the reality of abortion in the United States has also changed, and that includes what a self-managed abortion might look like.
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"The abortion drone will mark the different reality for Irish women to access safe abortion services compared to women in other European countries where abortion is legal," pro-choice groups behind the protest said in a statement.
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Over the last few months, Planned Parenthood has filed numerous lawsuits challenging abortion restrictions, including the recent near-total abortion ban in Alabama, which Wen called "the most extreme and dangerous policy" targeting abortion since Roe v.
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Fake clinics delay abortion care In an effort to delay abortion care, some fake clinic personnel inflate the miscarriage rate to make a woman believe that her pregnancy will end before she has to decide about abortion.
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"Abortion speakouts" date back to the 1969 Redstockings Abortion Speakout, which sparked a wave of similar events in which women spoke out about their then-illegal abortions to show the harms of abortion bans to real women.
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Cases like these, in which the anti-abortion camp has created the words we use to talk about abortion, show how much of our understanding of abortion care has been shaped by an inherent bias against it.
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The sociologist Ziad Munson has found that almost half of the activists on the front lines of the anti-abortion movement — those who protest outside abortion clinics — were not anti-abortion when they attended their first event.
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"The FDA is over-regulating medication abortion at a time when we're seeing increased barriers to abortion care, including efforts to ban abortion outright," said Andrea Miller, the president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH).
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Wade, the 2620 case that legalized abortion nationwide, abortion rights advocates believe losing would unleash a new wave of restrictions, force clinics to close, and eradicate access to legal abortion in large swathes of the United States.
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Read more about medication abortion: Almost 40 Percent of Abortions Are Now Done With Pills The FDA Is Restricting Access to the Easiest, Safest Form of Abortion Buying Abortion Pills Online Is Overwhelmingly Safe, But Maybe Illegal
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The Senate failed to advance a pair of anti-abortion bills on Tuesday, the first votes on abortion-related bills Congress has held in an election year when abortion access is playing a prominent role in campaigns.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that researches and supports abortion rights, Kansas already has a number of abortion restrictions on the books, including: Women must wait 24 hours after getting counseling that describes the details and risks — a requirement critics argue is meant to discourage abortion — before they can receive an abortion.
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In many cases, it's the anti-abortion camp that has either created the words we use to talk about abortion or redefined existing ones to suit its agenda—a phenomenon pro-choice advocates, abortion providers, and scholars say has resulted in our understanding of abortion care being shaped by an inherent bias against it.
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The abortion ratio speaks to a hot-button question when it comes to the politics of abortion: If fewer women are having abortions, is it because they are rejecting abortion from a moral standpoint, because they want an abortion but can't get one, or because they are having fewer unwanted pregnancies in the first place?
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O'Rourke said he would reverse the Trump administration's abortion clinic referral restriction -- blocked by a federal judge last month -- which prohibits taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from talking about abortion with patients or referring them to abortion providers.
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The number of online searches for self-managed abortion—the practice of self-inducing an abortion without the supervision of a medical professional—began to significantly increase in 2011, coinciding with an uptick in state-level abortion restrictions.
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These restrictions have chipped away at abortion access for years — for example, a Texas law regulating the state's abortion clinics forced 21 of the state's 40 abortion clinics to close in just three years, the Texas Tribune reported.
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According to the WHO, almost all morbidity and mortality associated with abortion could be prevented through education, the use of effective contraception, the provision of safe and legal induced abortion, and the timely care for complications of abortion.
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The Georgia law has also raised concerns among abortion-rights advocates about expanding "abortion deserts," described as major cities that are at least 100 miles (160 km) from an abortion provider, adding a particular hardship for poorer women.
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Trapped specifically highlights five abortion providers in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi as they fight Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws, passed by conservative state legislatures to make it harder for abortion clinics to keep their doors open.
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Anti-abortion advocates — who got closer to passing major abortion restrictions in 2018 — are frustrated by what they see as a missed opportunity for a Republican-controlled Congress to change federal abortion laws when they had the chance.
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Poland's existing laws are so restrictive that last year, the international abortion rights organization Women on Web launched the first-ever "abortion drone" to deliver abortion medication from Germany to Poland in a way that circumvented Poland's laws.
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Current state law stipulates that abortion can only be performed by licensed physicians, but the RHA would clarify the right of physician assistants and nurse practitioners to perform abortions, either by prescribing medical abortion or providing abortion procedures.
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The Guttmacher Institute, which analyzes abortion data worldwide, said in a study last week that it found no significant difference in abortion rates for 2010–14 between countries where abortion is legal and those where it is restricted.
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Because the anti-abortion movement has long dominated the conversation with the assertion that abortion is murder, the impulse to remove abortion from a murky moral debate and frame it as a simple matter of health is understandable.
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"It's to require a physician in an abortion center in the instance where a baby is born alive after an abortion or an attempted abortion, to provide reasonable care to try to save the baby's life," state Rep.
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A new Oklahoma law requires anti-abortion messages in all public bathrooms A new Oklahoma law requires anti-abortion messages in all public bathrooms A new anti-abortion public awareness campaign is taking aim at Oklahoma's public bathrooms.
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Though medication abortion is the easiest option to integrate into primary care, McLemore points out that some people will still want or need other abortion procedures—medication abortion is only approved for use up to 10 weeks' gestation.
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Anti-abortion centers are often located in states with stringent abortion restrictions, like requiring patients to wait up to 72 hours before an initial consultation or mandating that doctors give them counseling that, critics say, portrays abortion negatively.
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About half of those enacted since 2011 fall into four categories: bans on abortion at 20 weeks, limitations on insurance coverage of abortion, limitations on medical abortions, and targeted regulations of abortion providers (like the admitting privilege laws).
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Opposition to anti-abortion laws can backfire: Anti-abortion forces push them in part because they want to prompt legal cases that could grant the newly abortion-hostile majority on the Supreme Court the opportunity to overturn Roe.
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Abortion advocates argue in the case that the scrutiny of abortion clinics in states with governments that are hostile to abortion is above average, and that medical clinics of every kind face similar issues that often go unrecorded.
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He is a longtime anti-abortion activist who, as a lawyer defending people charged with blocking access to abortion clinics, has offered a "defense of necessity," namely that abortion itself is a greater offense than a clinic blockage.
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Oklahoma's existing felony abortion law punishes non-physician care providers with up to three years in prison for performing an abortion.
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Abortion rights supporters held #StopTheBans rallies yesterday in almost every state as a slew of states debate or approve abortion restrictions.
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"Therapeutic abortion is highly restricted in Madagascar, it is maybe the most restrictive country in Africa for abortion rights," said Lesage.
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The abortion pill used early in pregnancy should, in theory, be a lot more accessible than a later-stage surgical abortion.
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The Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, and the wider issue of abortion rights is not at issue in the case.
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National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is a network of over 80 funds that helps lower-income individuals access abortion care.
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Abortion advocates often call these laws "Targeted Regulations on Abortion Providers," or "TRAP" laws, since they can force clinics to close.
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Still, anti-abortion activists are determined to push through bills to protect "born-alive abortion survivors," including at the federal level.
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North Dakota recently tried to enforce a six week ban on abortion, while Arkansas sought to ban abortion after 12 weeks.
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This week, Alabama passed the country's most restrictive abortion ban, soon followed by Missouri passing its own strict anti-abortion legislation.
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Abortion rights advocates also argue that six weeks is far too early into pregnancy to reasonably make a decision about abortion.
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Hernandez wanted an abortion, allowing her to undergo cancer treatment, but doctors refused as abortion is banned in the Caribbean nation.
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The risks for people who self-manage abortion could be growing as more states pass strict bans on abortion in general.
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Abortion rights activists rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Women's rights advocates in Philadelphia demonstrate against recent abortion bans.
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Anti-abortion activists prepare to leave after confronting a small group of abortion rights advocates on July 9, 2018, in Chicago.
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While she stated her overall support for abortion, Gabbard said that she did not believe limitless abortion should be the goal.
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She also knew taking abortion pills or getting a back-alley abortion could land her in jail or even kill her.
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READ: Why abortion foes are psyched about this new Supreme Court case Between 22019 and 2018, states enacted 424 abortion restrictions.
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An "abortion without borders" billboard in El Paso, part of West and Frontera Funds' fight for abortion access for undocumented immigrants.
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In recent months, Iowa banned abortion at six weeks, while Mississippi prohibited and Louisiana wants to prohibit abortion at 15 weeks.
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"The mainstream, white anti-abortion movement has come up with this theory that abortion and slavery are akin," Richien told Refinery29.
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It's abortion statistics from 2014 — the first full year that HB2, a major anti-abortion law, was in effect in Texas.
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Abortion-rights advocates say these regulations are merely another way to dissuade women from getting an abortion in the first place.
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But short of ending legal abortion outright, conservatives have pushed a broad range of abortion restrictions in the states they control.
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Trump, on the other hand, has said that he is "totally against abortion," even suggesting that abortion providers should be punished.
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The 1967 Abortion Act which liberalized access to abortion in England, Wales, and Scotland has never been extended to Northern Ireland.
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Including abortion care in these models has the potential to reduce abortion deserts in the places where access is most needed.
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But, like Reid, he is personally opposed to abortion and supported his state's abortion restrictions when he was governor of Virginia.
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She says that the terms "late-term abortion" and "partial-birth abortion" are misleading because neither refer to a medical procedure.
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Penny finds herself pregnant and decides to get an abortion — although god forbid ABC actually use the word abortion on television.
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Abortion -- In the House bill, you cannot use government tax credits to purchase insurance plans that cover abortion in most cases.
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Participants can consult an abortion provider via video conference, and those who qualify will be sent abortion medications via overnight mail.
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And everyone would have full abortion coverage by disallowing the Hyde Amendment, which blocks nearly all Medicaid funding for abortion coverage.
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Here are some facts about abortion and its availability in the United States: - Americans are split in their views of abortion.
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Learn more by heading to sites from orgs who oppose restrictions on abortion and are fighting to expand access to abortion.
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The 1967 Abortion Act, which makes abortion legal in the UK up to 28 weeks, does not apply in Northern Ireland.
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Trump, who has recently worked to build up his anti-abortion base, has reversed his position on abortion in recent years.
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The decision was cheered by abortion rights advocates from Planned Parenthood to the National Abortion Federation, as well as Congressional Democrats.
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In 1970, when abortion was still illegal in most states, New York passed the most liberal abortion law in the nation.
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He said courts must balance the supposed health benefits of abortion restrictions against the burdens they impose on access to abortion.
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The Tabbot Foundation is Australia's only dedicated telemedicine abortion provider (although mail order abortion services are also available through Marie Stopes).
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For some anti-abortion activists, the solution has been turning Planned Parenthood into a symbol of everything they hate about abortion.
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People need to understand that having an abortion isn't an uncommon thing, and just how critically important access to abortion is.
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Solid majorities of Latino voters believe that women should make their own decisions about abortion, and that abortion should remain legal.
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The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo to the position Thursday, and while anti-abortion groups are rejoicing, abortion rights groups are not.
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If abortion is murder, as abortion opponents are always claiming it is, how can society let the woman off the hook?
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Abortion rights activists won a landmark case on Monday when the Supreme Court ruled against a set of Texas abortion restrictions.
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Abortion Jones is supportive of abortion rights, a position that could put him at odds with many of Alabama's evangelical voters.
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Legalizing abortion There are a few ways to frame the number of people who say abortion should be legal or illegal.
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On the legal front, a judge has halted Mississippi's abortion law and the lawsuits keep piling up for Alabama's abortion law.
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The 20-week abortion ban bill would also impose a little-noticed provision that could be used to target abortion providers.
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Abortion rights advocates, however, slammed the both the Senate and House provisions, charging they would result in restricting access to abortion.
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The video, posted by campaigner Lila Rose for the anti-abortion organisation Live Action, claimed that abortion is never medically necessary.
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One abortion-related provision that likely won't be allowed: the House's ban on tax credits going toward plans that cover abortion.
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The change prohibits federal dollars from going to abortion providers or to health centers that provide abortion referrals to their patients.
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Allowing the tax credits to go to plans that cover abortion could run afoul of anti-abortion members of the House.
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Several human rights and abortion rights groups had showed up at the court, protesting against El Salvador's strict anti-abortion laws.
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Anderson asks how Catholic politicians like Cuomo who express a personal opposition to abortion can continue to support abortion being legal.
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Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws are among the most popular—and the most insidious—of such anti-abortion restrictions.
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Anti-abortion activists often claim that banning abortion will necessarily reduce the number of terminations, but the truth isn't that simple.
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Abortion On abortion, Barr has stated his personal opposition, and in a 1992 interview on CNN he predicted that Roe v.
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The only members who spoke out against abortion were men, which Dannenfelser said gave the abortion-rights supporters an easy argument.
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Savvy abortion foes believe the fastest way to undercut that ruling is to show that abortion makes women anything but equal.
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It's great that the abortion rate has this year dropped to its lowest rate since abortion became legal nationally in 1973.
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The biggest stumbling block for conservative evangelicals is the scarlet abortion "A" that Democrats wear for their support of abortion rights.
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Wade will end abortion; the other promotes policies that have actually reduced the abortion rate to its lowest level since 1972.
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An abortion that happens after 21 weeks is sometimes referred to as a "late-term abortion," but that's not medically accurate.
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Abortion opponents think abortion is wrong because it ends a human life, and thus shouldn't be legally allowed or morally tolerated.
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Wade decriminalized abortion in U.S., there has never been an honest reckoning about abortion within healthcare services, education, training, and research.
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Websites for both pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion organizations often use the same keywords, which can flummox Maps' automated systems.
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The strictest of these anti-abortion bills haven't actually taken effect yet, and abortion remains legal in every state, including Alabama.
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An emboldened anti-abortion movement has started employing United States-style tactics like fake abortion clinics and protests outside legitimate ones.
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Texas granted her request for an abortion without telling her parents, but federal officials have kept her from getting that abortion.
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The abortion rights group Naral supported him, an important endorsement in a race that featured Mr. Adkins, who opposes abortion rights.
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The fight was on between the abortion-rights and anti-abortion sides about who could claim to defend women most forcefully.
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Since announcing his candidacy, Mr. Trump, at one time a supporter of abortion rights, has embraced anti-abortion politics with zeal.
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The activists always ask women two questions: whether they are sure they want an abortion and what they think of abortion.
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That's because abortion accompaniment groups, no matter how successful, are not a replacement for legalized abortion across Mexico and Latin America.
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Compare that to the extensive training abortion providers have to undergo, not to mention the stringent regulations imposed on abortion clinics.
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The likely result: Most insurers would drop abortion coverage, and the few plans that did cover abortion would become prohibitively expensive.
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Wade ruling that upheld abortion rights, and as a "counter-narrative" to Friday's March for Life, an annual anti-abortion event.
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Organizers of the march, the largest anti-abortion event in the country, praised Trump for his policies on restricting abortion access.
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It's clear that abortion advocates are determined to advance abortion no matter what, even if it requires sacrificing the First Amendment.
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Bevin has released at least four ads since mid-September attacking Beshear on abortion and emphasizing his own anti-abortion credentials.
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"The abortion law is much more than the right to perform an abortion," said María del Valle Stigliano, 30, a copywriter.
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Could the state-mandated abortion materials given out in eight states that claim abortion causes lasting mental health harm be correct?
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While abortion laws shift dramatically depending on which party holds majorities, public opinion about abortion has been relatively unchanged for decades.
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There are 20-week abortion prohibitions in 18 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
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Under this near-blanket abortion ban, rape, incest, or fatal foetal abnormalities are not grounds for an abortion in Northern Ireland.
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"The most prominent abortion myth in the last couple years has been that abortion can happen just before birth," she said.
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Many states have enacted laws that make obtaining an abortion exceedingly difficult: About 90 percent of counties have no abortion clinics.
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Many abortion rights activists and abortion providers told us they were concerned that Planned Parenthood was prioritizing politics over health care.
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And he's also signed several anti-abortion laws, like requiring ultrasounds and showing patients pictures of fetuses before performing an abortion.
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The 20 week abortion ban bill would also impose a little-noticed requirement that could be used to target abortion providers.
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The decision marks another win for abortion rights advocates, who are challenging a slew of state laws restricting abortion access nationwide.
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The abortion rights group argues that each new restriction is unconstitutional, including requiring women to wait three days for an abortion.
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Wade, most pro-life political efforts focused on preventing additional states from legalizing abortion and repealing state laws that legalized abortion.
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Abortion is not healthcare and what Americans, and women in particular, do need are real, comprehensive health care options, not abortion.
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Late-term abortion is a phrase used by abortion opponents to refer to abortions performed after about 433 weeks of pregnancy.
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Wade established a trimester framework for evaluating abortion laws — if a law banned abortion before the third trimester, it was unconstitutional.
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As such, they represent the leading edge of how anti-abortion activists have been chipping away at abortion access for decades.
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The star rating system offers another way to create a more visible CPC and a less visible abortion clinic, with abortion opponents offering two and one star reviews for local abortion providers, and writing three and four star reviews for the pregnancy care centers, often while deliberately avoiding mentioning abortion is not included in their services.
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EXCLUSIVE: Undocumented teen talks about her abortion battle with Trump's DOJ EXCLUSIVE: Undocumented teen talks about her abortion battle with Trump's DOJ A drawn-out court battle between the Trump administration and an undocumented teenager over her right to get an abortion ended Wednesday morning, when the teen received an abortion after weeks of legal wrangling.
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a controversial Arkansas anti-abortion law, paving the way for the the state to become the first to effectively ban abortion medication in the U.S. Arkansas' Act 577, also known as the Abortion-Inducing Drugs Safety Act, requires health providers who offer abortion medication, i.e.
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"This ban on insurance coverage for abortion has interfered with women's health decisions and really pushed abortion out of reach for those struggling to make ends meet," says Destiny Lopez, co-director of All* Above All, an organization that is leading a campaign to end bans on abortion coverage and expand abortion coverage to everyone, regardless of circumstances.
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It's not as if the Supreme Court's ruling has made abortion instantaneously accessible to everyone in Texas — the state's regulations led to the closure of over half of its abortion clinics, and they won't reopen overnight — and casting abortion as something easy to come by disrespects the countless women who need abortion care and don't get it.
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Gohmert, a staunch conservative with anti-abortion views, turned first during his allotted time to Melissa Ohden, who the committee listed as "the survivor of a failed saline infusion abortion in 1977" and founder of The Abortion Survivors Network.
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The surge in attempts to ban abortion in the earliest stages of pregnancy drives home that the end goal of anti-abortion politicians and activists is to ban all abortion — at any point during pregnancy and for any reason.
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On Tuesday, members of the House will vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, a companion bill to No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, which was introduced earlier this month.
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Entertainment companies have debated openly the possibility they would relocate ventures planned for Georgia if the state's new abortion law takes effect, and abortion providers and abortion-rights advocates have pledged to hold up the new laws in court.
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On the remote Hawaiian island of Kauai, where there are no abortion providers, Mifeprex – the prescription medication commonly known as the "abortion pill" – would be a simple solution for patients seeking an abortion up to 10 weeks of pregnancy.
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Republican-led states are putting forth plenty of policies — six-week bans, administrative requirements for abortion providers, and other restrictions to states' abortion access — that could be used to restrict abortion access and stand under a Robertsian legal theory.
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Every year, abortion advocates mark the anniversary with remembrances of what women endured when they didn't have access to safe, legal abortion, and remind the public that abortion rights are far from guaranteed for every woman who needs them.
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Some patients have called to ask if abortion is now illegal in their state, while others have wondered if it's still possible to receive their scheduled abortions—even though both abortion and abortion after six weeks are still legal.
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People walking into an abortion clinic endure angry zealots yelling "murderer!" in their faces, face carrying an unintended pregnancy when they can't access abortion care, and could be subject to prosecution if they attempt an abortion on their own.
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The issue of the legality of abortion and disputes between anti-abortion and pro-abortion advocates have been a central focus of political discourse and debate for many decades and are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Blue states have ramped up their efforts to fund and protect abortion providers over the last year, in the face of both federal attacks on abortion rights and the increasingly extreme state laws threatening to ban abortion for millions.
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The activists, including anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden, recorded the videos in 2014 and 2015 at annual meetings of the National Abortion Federation, a nonprofit organization representing abortion providers including affiliates of Planned Parenthood.
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According to PerryUndem, anti-abortion voters are less likely to want a woman choosing which type of procedure or care is used for abortion and are more likely to want a woman who received an abortion to feel punished.
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But if abortion drugs have reduced the risk of death from illegal abortion, they have also generated new concerns: When abortion is a crime, the emergency room can become the scene of a criminal investigation, and doctors the detectives.
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Like other targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) laws, extensive reporting requirements make it more difficult and expensive for abortion providers to operate and they single out abortion for excessive regulation despite the fact that it is exceedingly safe.
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This law applies to both medication abortion and in-clinic procedures, and when it passed, stood to increase the number of facilities offering aspiration abortion (the most common procedure for abortion up to 16 weeks) from three to 2017.
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From 73 to 27, Human Life International, a US-based anti-abortion organization, allocated $25 million in funds to support grassroots anti-abortion efforts in countries with some of the world's harshest abortion laws, including Mexico and El Salvador.
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The Supreme Court on Friday announced it will review Louisiana abortion restrictions that could leave the state with just one abortion provider, in a case that gives the high court's new conservative majority a chance to redefine abortion rights.
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The Supreme Court in 2016 on buttressed constitutional protections for abortion rights in a ruling in which Kennedy joined the four liberal justices, throwing out a Texas law imposing difficult-to-meet requirements on abortion clinics and abortion doctors.
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There are a lot of reasons for this — the daily reality of anti-abortion threats that Horvath-Cosper wrote about, the steady separation of abortion from the rest of medical practice, and inadequate training on abortion for medical students.
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In a 5-3 ruling, the high court struck down a controversial Texas abortion law, giving a victory to abortion rights groups.
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The National Abortion Federation says there have been 11 killings, 26 attempted killings, 42 bombings and 186 arsons directed at abortion providers.
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He's also a proud pro-gun and an anti-abortion zealot: He supports 53-week abortion bans and defunding Planned Parenthood. Rep.
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That's due to the fact that the 1967 Abortion Act, which legalized abortion access in the UK, wasn't enforced in Northern Ireland.
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Maine's move to expand authorized abortion providers stood in contrast to a wave of anti-abortion measures passed recently around the country.
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Pro-life advocates frequently argue that while abortion is wrong because it takes a human life, women also "deserve better" than abortion.
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"Abortion is still legal in all the states that have passed abortion bans," Quita Tinsley, deputy director of ARC-Southeast, told Refinery21973.
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Iowa Abortion Access Fund is a volunteer-run organization that helps provide abortion services in Iowa for those who lack the resources.
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"Abortion is still legal in all the states that have passed abortion bans," Quita Tinsley, deputy director of ARC-Southeast, told Refinery29.
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According to Canada's National Abortion Federation, Canada is one of only a few countries where there is no national law restricting abortion.
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But abortion rights advocates said the 20-week ban is troubling on its own, the latest abortion restriction passed under Kasich's watch.
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First, there's no doubt that legislation like the abortion ban in Alabama is aimed at the larger goal of prohibiting abortion nationwide.
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Are we are willing to accept unsafe and illegal abortion over safe and legal abortion in the name of enforcing this imperative?
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Louisiana's abortion ban will take effect only if a similar anti-abortion law in Mississippi is upheld in a federal appeals court.
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Abortion clinics closer than the one in Little Rock either didn't return her calls or don't sedate women during the abortion procedure.
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Abortion rights advocates say the roughly 2,700 U.S. anti-abortion pregnancy centers, including around 200 in California, far outnumber facilities providing abortions.
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Abortion rights activists rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, to protest new state bans on abortion services on May 223.
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Azar's influence on women's access to contraception and abortion services are yet to be seen, but abortion rights opponents praised the confirmation.
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" Instead, the report blamed state regulations on abortion for creating barriers to "safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable abortion services.
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Newman is the president of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion organization known for distributing Wild West–style "wanted" posters featuring abortion doctors.
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As perennial swing justice Anthony Kennedy has taught us, opposing abortion personally doesn't necessarily mean you'll vote to curtail legal abortion rights.
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It's Complicated Why The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Treating Cardi B Like A Hero How Difficult Is It To Get An Abortion?
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According to the pro–abortion rights research center Guttmacher Institute, another 10 states still have unenforced, pre-Roe abortion bans in place.
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Wade — the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide — the states will likely inherit all the power to legalize or criminalize abortion.
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Anti-abortion group says law demands life sentence The anti-abortion group Precious Life called Tuesday for an appeal of the sentence.
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Abortion rights have become an increasingly divisive topic for Democratic presidential hopefuls following a series of recent abortion bans in Red states.
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Some commentators have suggested the thought experiment works as an analogy to abortion following a rape but does not fit every abortion.
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It also featured more speakers who oppose abortion than who support it, or who consistently made anti-abortion versus pro-choice statements.
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This is also the abortion case where the first woman on the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor, distanced herself from abortion rights.
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One would have denied some rape victims coverage for abortion, by redefining rape as "forcible" for the purpose of federal abortion funding.
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At the same time, new attacks on abortion rights have intensified, as abortion opponents see the political winds changing in their favor.
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Nashville's Planned Parenthood, the city's only abortion provider, has temporarily suspended abortion services, potentially leaving thousands of women without access to care.
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Indeed, the resistance that abortion greys have shown to the polemics of both sides, over three decades of abortion warring, is impressive.
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Abortion rights advocates have long argued that such laws are medically unnecessary and are simply an effort to shut down abortion clinics.
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Falwell did not preach his first anti-abortion sermon until 1978, and the Southern Baptist Convention did not oppose abortion until 1980.
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Certainly, anti-abortion rhetoric and many pro-choice advocates focus on its abortion services, which makes up just 3% of overall services.
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When "women's issues" come up, it generally means abortion, and abortion is far from the only issue that women are interested in.
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According to the National Network of Abortion Funds, most abortion funds are only able to meet about 30 percent of financial needs.
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The PerryUndem poll also found that 63% oppose restricting access to abortion care, and 55% oppose banning Medicaid coverage for abortion care.
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Abortion rights campaigners have vowed to continue their efforts regardless of the outcome of the bill -- as will the anti-abortion lobby.
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If the law is allowed to stand, abortion rights supporters say it would close all but about 22 of Texas's abortion clinics.
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