“We are pleased that the court has prevented these outrageous restrictions from going into effect in Texas, where they would have created immediate and dangerous new barriers on women’s access to health care,” said David Brown, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights
All three sponsors of the new unconstitutional 20-week ban have received a zero rating in NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia’s most recent legislative report card.
The Obama administration sent a clear message that states cannot deny reproductive health-care providers from receiving federal Title X funds if they provide abortion care. The funds already can’t be used for the procedure.
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) falsely claimed during a 2014 radio interview that volcanoes cause more damage to the environment than humans. He envisions "fossil fuels playing a major role for the next 50 years.”
Barriers to abortion access are a public health, human rights, and economic catastrophe. And it's about to get worse. Our president-elect shrugged that people can travel to other states to get abortions. Well, I can tell you that they already do.
Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, said the Republican-backed bill is an “ideological attack” that is intended to “shame and stigmatize” pregnant people seeking abortion care.
"The study suggests that expanding access to abortion, not restricting it, is what is going to protect women’s mental health," said Dr. M. Antonia Biggs, a researcher with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at the University of California, San Francisco.
“Kasich’s actions today will fall hardest on low-income women, women of color, and young women,” said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio. “History will not judge Gov. Kasich’s disregard for women’s health kindly.”
When we have a government that is determined to circumvent the rights of its own citizens and people worldwide, international standards and protections are critical.
