About a third of all abortions, and a higher share of early-term abortions, are medication abortions now.
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"Late" abortions typically refer to abortions at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy, less than 1.3% of all US abortions.
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" Abortions and 'broken' families "We have 50 million abortions.
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Later-term abortions only make up 85033 percent of abortions worldwide.
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Abortions at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy, typically referred to as "late-term" abortions, account for less than 1.3% of all US abortions.
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In 2001, medical abortions made up just 6 percent of all abortions.
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Abortions after 24 weeks comprise less than one percent of all abortions.
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And when we're talking about abortions in Cambodia, these aren't proper medical abortions.
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Before the Middle Ages, abortions were allowed because they weren't really considered abortions.
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We are told that legal abortions protect women from deadly back-alley abortions.
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By describing some abortions as executions, President Trump paints all abortions as willfully evil.
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This includes not just providing abortions, but also providing any information about abortions whatsoever.
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The one proven way to reduce abortions is to make contraceptives easily accessible, and for those abortions that are performed, there should be facilities for early and safe abortions.
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Those abortions currently account for about one third of all abortions in the United States.
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If fewer doctors are able perform abortions that means there's fewer abortions in that state.
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If they banned abortions tomorrow, there are still people who are going to have abortions.
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SB 8: Bans so-called partial-birth abortions (late-term abortions, which are already illegal).
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The rate of abortions also declined, from 15.9 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-85033 to 11.8 abortions for the same amount of women in that age group in 2015.
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As many commenters on this post have pointed out, making abortions illegal only stops safe abortions.
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Medical abortions dropped significantly, from 22 percent to 5 percent of all abortions in the state.
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The clinic still performs about 250 abortions per month -- roughly half of which are medical abortions.
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However, the proportion of unsafe abortions rose from 2000 percent to 21995 percent of overall abortions.
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And in 2014, 45% of abortions before nine weeks of gestation were abortions induced by medication.
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The restrictions require that only physicians can perform abortions, that clinics providing abortions meet "hospital-style building standards," and that second-trimester abortions happen in hospitals, the Washington Post's Laura Vozzella reports.
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Even as the overall number of abortions declined, medical abortions grew from 6% of nonhospital abortions in 2001 to 31% in 13, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank.
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"They wouldn't allow white women to have abortions, but will force abortions" on women of other races.
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Women seeking abortions were compared to other women seeking abortions, and not women who wanted their pregnancy.
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They concluded that both the number of abortions and the number of unsafe abortions have gone up.
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Wade was that so many women were sick and dying from backroom abortions or self-induced abortions.
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The report suggests that the decline in reported abortions could owe in part to self-managed abortions.
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Only licensed physicians (not nurse practitioners or other trained pros who provide abortions elsewhere) can perform abortions.
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The increase in later-term abortions occurred even as the overall number of abortions in Texas declined.
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In 2009, the organization performed just over 330,000 abortions, about 40 percent of all abortions that year.
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"How many abortions are enough?" he said in a statement, noting New York's high rate of abortions.
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Access to abortions in Texas Texas has quite a one-two punch to keep women from getting abortions.
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It reinstituted a ban on U.S. funding to international groups that perform abortions or provide information about abortions.
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Abortions are still controversial in the U.S. — especially late-term abortions, which are heavily restricted in most states.
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John Delaney (D-Md.) tweeted that banning abortions doesn't stop them, it stops women from having safe abortions.
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But abortions rarely take place at that point in a pregnancy, and early-term abortions are remarkably safe.
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The law concerns medication abortions, which use pills to induce abortions in the first nine weeks of pregnancy.
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" Abortions later in the second trimester are "very rare," and abortions in the third trimester are "rarer still.
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Though protections for abortions have certainly eroded in America in recent years, with many states creating new restrictions against late-term abortions, in the developed world overall, 88 percent of abortions are considered safe.
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The number of abortions among women 15-44 went down 26%, from 15.9 to 11.8 abortions per 1,133 women.
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A large percentage of women who had abortions in 213 had had abortions before, according to the latest study.
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In 2017, 1,203 abortions were performed in Vermont, where Planned Parenthood offers abortions at six of its health centers.
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Refusing to provide abortions or even tell women where they can get one won't prevent women from seeking abortions.
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But anti-choice advocates aren't the only ones who've made clumsy connections between abortions and… things that aren't abortions.
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When abortions are illegal, women who want them often turn to clandestine measures and often unsafe abortions, creating new problems.
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Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions and Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.
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Republicans have long opposed the group because it performs abortions, though federal dollars are already prohibited from paying for abortions.
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The number of Hispanic women having abortions dropped 18 percent, the equivalent of 4,400 fewer abortions than the previous year.
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Prohibiting D&E abortions is effectively a ban on all second-trimester abortions, landing such bans in murky legal territory.
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Laws banning abortions after a certain amount of time, like Iowa's new law prohibiting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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Meanwhile, 34 states mandate that only physicians can provide abortions, despite evidence that APCs can safely perform first-trimester abortions.
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North America had the highest rate of safe abortions: 99 percent of all abortions that take place there are safe.
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Mancini praised Trump for cutting taxpayer funding for abortions, appointing anti-abortion judges and voicing support against late-term abortions.
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And while the overall number of abortions performed in the U.S. is dropping, the number of medication abortions is increasing.
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Wade, which essentially forbid regulation of first-trimester abortions and allowed for states to regulate abortions in the second trimester and prohibit abortions in the third trimester, except if it was necessary to preserve the woman's health.
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The policy states that "abortions performed for the physical or mental health of the mother and abortions performed for fetal abnormalities" count as methods of family planning, but "abortions performed if the life of the mother would be endangered, if the fetus were carried to term, or abortions performed following rape or incest," do not.
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MYTH: Women who get abortions don't care about children FACT: Most women seeking abortions already have at least one child According to the CDC, more than 59% of women seeking abortions have already given birth to a child.
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And while the overall number of abortions has gone down, medical abortions grew from 215% of nonhospital abortions in 28 to 31% in 2014 in the United States, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank.
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The changes: Family planning clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for abortions will not be eligible for certain federal funds.
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Little Rock Family Planning Services is currently the only clinic in the state that provides both medication abortions and surgical abortions.
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Some parents obtained abortions because the fetuses were female, reflecting traditional preferences for male children, though such selective abortions were illegal.
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Most women who received abortions were in their 20s, with 30% of all abortions performed on women ages 20 to 24.
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In 1988, President Ronald Reagan barred clinics from not only referring patients for abortions, but also from counseling them about abortions.
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He said women who had abortions should be punished, but later retracted this, saying that doctors who perform abortions should be punished.
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For the record, "partial-birth abortions," or late-term abortions, actually entail removing the fetus intact after dilating the pregnant person's cervix.
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Horrified at the number of unsafe abortions happening, a group of women took action to provide safe underground abortions and abortion counseling.
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Planned Parenthood does not perform surgical abortions in Arkansas, which forbids public funding of abortions except in cases of rape or incest.
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Abortions are rarely administered in any sort of hospital, but secular hospitals usually provide emergency abortions in cases where pregnancies go awry.
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Until this moment, Northern Irish women seeking abortions were forced to travel overseas to England to obtain access to legal, safe abortions.
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Nationwide, medical abortions are now approaching the number of surgical abortions for the first time — a major shift for American abortion providers.
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Abortions represent only a small part of its services, and those services prevent thousands of additional unwanted pregnancies, and therefore abortions, from happening.
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That list may include some, but not a majority, of clinics that perform abortions; physicians may not indicate which ones actually offer abortions.
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Alabama is one of a handful of states that have sought to limit abortions and access to abortions during legislative sessions this year.
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Arizona's ban extends to abortions based on race, and North Dakota passed a law in 2013 that prohibits abortions because of fetal abnormalities.
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The fight in Arkansas centers on medication abortions, which currently account for nearly a third of all abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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Here the injury asserted is to the rights of women seeking abortions, not to the rights of physicians and businesses providing those abortions.
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The bill would also seek to reduce access to abortions, by preventing federal subsidies from going to any health plan that covers abortions.
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All those things that are supposed to deter people from having abortions—they do, but not because people don't want to have abortions.
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Instead, they target late-term abortions, or wrap abortion providers in red tape, or regulate the provision of drugs that induce medical abortions.
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According to figures recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 20108 there were 210,169 abortions, at a rate of 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women; in 2006 there were 842,3383 abortions at a rate of 15.9 per 1,000 women.
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Restrictive laws in developing countries do seem associated with increased numbers of unsafe abortions, with more than 30 percent of women who have abortions in developing countries experiencing a complication, compared with 0.05 percent of American women who have abortions, she said.
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Like Alabama, doctors in Nicaragua also face prison time for performing abortions -- up to six years for performing abortions, according to Human Rights Watch.
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The group helps underwrite abortions at the state's three independent clinics and provides financial help to women who travel out of state for abortions.
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Plans must cover abortions to be sold on the individual markets, but also could not be sold on the markets if they cover abortions.
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In 251, the abortion ratio was about 245 abortions for every 22012,22007 live births; in 22011, it was 20093 abortions for 22009,22013 live births.
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Some providers only offer medication abortion or don't offer abortions after the first trimester because unnecessary regulations make later abortions too difficult to provide.
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The rule would cut off Title X funding to Planned Parenthood and other centers unless they stop providing abortions or referring people for abortions.
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These restrictions, described as a "gag rule" by Democrats, would ban Title X grant recipients from promoting abortions, or giving patients referrals for abortions.
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Anti-abortion clinics or organizations that deter abortions often use the same keywords as abortion clinics or places that help with carrying out abortions.
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Several states have passed laws that will ban abortions six weeks into pregnancy, and Alabama passed a law that will ban nearly all abortions.
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Safe abortions are rarely found in Latin America and most of Africa — fewer than a quarter of all abortions in those areas are safe.
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Out of all the regions in the world, Central America had the fewest safe abortions: Just 18.4 percent of all abortions there are safe.
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And if they wait more than 22 weeks after their last periods before getting their abortions, they can't get abortions in Louisiana at all.
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Even the women who had abortions later on in their pregnancies did not experience any more regret than the women who had earlier abortions.
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Women didn&apost think much about their abortions until they were prompted Women often told interviewers their feelings on their abortions were virtually nonexistent.
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In Slovakia, on-demand abortions are legal up until 12 weeks of a pregnancy while abortions for health reasons are allowed until 623 weeks.
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In addition to refusing to facilitate abortions, that lawsuit says, the government has required minors seeking abortions to visit anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers."
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The rule forced Planned Parenthood — the nation's largest provider of abortions — to leave the program, as well as several other organizations that provide abortions.
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The newly released information found that between 2011 and 2017: -- The number of abortions fell by 196,000—a 20113% decline from 1,058,000 abortions in 22017 to 232,2394 abortions in 22011 -- The abortion rate (the number of abortions per 22017,22017 women aged 983--298) fell by about 2000%, from 22011 in 2011 to 13.5 in 2017 -- The abortion ratio (the number of abortions per 100 pregnancies ending in either abortion or live birth) fell about 13%, from 21.2 in 0003 to 18.4 in 2017.
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He suggested that birth control leads to more abortions, that state lawmakers should mandate women must ask for (and receive) men's permission before seeking abortions, and that women who rely on birth control provided through a government family-planning program be banned from receiving abortions.
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While reliable statistics on people who induce their own abortions — or "self-manage" their abortions, as abortion rights advocates call it — is hard to come by, there is some evidence that the number of these abortions will rise as restrictions force clinics to close.
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Both bills put a spotlight on abortions that occur late in pregnancy, which are exceedingly rare — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last year that abortions after 20 weeks accounted for 1.2 percent of abortions in 60, the most recent period studied.
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The number of abortions in the United States has declined in the last 30 years, the report said, but medication abortions, which involve the use of prescription drugs rather than a surgical procedure, have increased and may now account for one-third of abortions.
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Somewhere around 9,090 women in the US had abortions after their 21st week of pregnancy in 2012, accounting for just 1.3 percent of all abortions.
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And for Brandi, as a doctor who provides abortions, the narrative around failed abortions in Missouri and elsewhere has been "heartbreaking" to read, she said.
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Kaine said Trump said women who get abortions should face punishment VERDICT: TRUE Kaine said Trump said that women who get abortions should face punishment.
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While 88% of abortions performed in developed nations were safe, experts said that there is still work to be done to make all abortions safe.
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During his presidential campaign, Trump pledged to punish women who get abortions and spouted garbage lies about late-term abortions in the second presidential debate.
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When and how are they getting abortions Nearly two-thirds of all abortions in 2015 were performed at no later than eight weeks of gestation.
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Women and girls who self-induce or consent to abortions, and medical providers who provide illegal abortions, face the risk of serving time behind bars.
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During his campaign, he said women who had abortions should be punished but later said it was doctors who perform abortions who should be punished.
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Medication abortions declined from 22 percent of all abortions in these clinics in 2010, before the law, to 5 percent after the law in 2014.
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Abortions are a tiny fraction of the services Planned Parenthood clinics offer, and public money cannot be used for abortions in almost all cases anyway.
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"Unsafe abortions are frequently performed by providers lacking qualifications and skills to perform induced abortion, and some abortions are self-induced," the WHO study explains.
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Abortions in the third trimester are very rare — just 1.4 percent of all abortions take place at 21 weeks or beyond, according to Planned Parenthood.
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"The state's only beef is that the plaintiffs provide abortions," he wrote, noting that Florida already prohibits funding for abortions, as courts have held permissible.
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In 211, there were 188 abortions per 1,000 live births, compared with 233 abortions per 1,000 live births in 133, a drop of 19 percent.
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In 6900, most women who received abortions were in their 2628s, with 28503 percent of all abortions being performed on women age 22019 to 24.
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On TV, those getting abortions tend to be younger, whiter, wealthier, and less likely to already be parents than those getting abortions in real life.
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It also repeals measures requiring providers to notify the husbands of married women seeking abortions before conducting the procedure and banning so-called partial birth abortions.
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Partial birth abortions are illegal, and Planned Parenthood has repeatedly denied that it performs partial birth abortions, or that it has participated in any illegal activity.
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Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010 Congressional staff have coverage of taxpayer subsidized abortions, and churches in California are being forced to pay for abortions.
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The poll found that 58 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of Republicans, oppose barring federal funding from clinics that provide abortions or referrals for abortions.
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The challengers argue that it unconstitutionally forces centers that oppose abortions to post notices that encourage women to seek information on free or low-cost abortions.
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And in absence of legal abortions, women often put their lives at risk by seeking out abortions from those that are not trained to provide them.
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Though Virginia already permits third-trimester abortions, Tran's proposal would reduce the number of doctors required to sign off on later abortions from three to one.
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By restricting access to healthcare or shutting down facilities that perform abortions, many women put their lives at risk to take other measures to perform abortions.
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The Louisiana law requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortions are provided.
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Clinics performed about 21990,403 abortions in 240 — the latest year for which data is available — the lowest number since 240, when about 240,000 abortions were performed.
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Medication abortions, in which a woman takes pills to end an early pregnancy, made up 39 percent of all abortions provided in the U.S. in 2017.
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Along with the Hyde Amendment that bans use of federal funds to pay for abortions, 25 states ban coverage of abortions in private health insurance plans.
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Sex-selection and abortions are more common among urban, middle-class and educated people since they have more money and access to illegal providers and abortions.
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In fact, according to data from 2015, China performs about 13 million abortions per year, and that number does not include abortions performed at unlicensed clinics.
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Eighteen minors requested abortions, 11 received them, and five "rescinded their request" (two minors were placed with sponsors and may or may not have had abortions).
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Here in Dallas, there was a hospital with a special ward for women who tried self-abortions or who had had abortions in very bad circumstances.
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Nationwide statistics for the number of illegal abortions that happen in DRC or the number of women who die from botched abortions are difficult to come by.
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That changed this week after Alabama passed a near-total ban on abortions that could punish doctors with up to 99-years in prison for performing abortions.
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As of March, the state already restricts abortions at 20 weeks postfertilization; this bill would ban abortions at any point in pregnancy if testing suggests Down syndrome.
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This means he's in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act, banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and denying funds to health centers that perform abortions.
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The Louisiana law mandates that physicians who perform abortions have "admitting privileges" at a hospital within 30 miles (48 km) of the facility where abortions are performed.
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Late-term abortions accounted for about 1 percent of total abortions in 2015, according to the latest data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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According to the World Health Organization, of the 22020 million induced abortions a year, 21.6 million are unsafe, and 18.5 of unsafe abortions occur in developing countries.
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In 2014, the two clinics combined performed 5,927 abortions, some 72 percent of the 8,080 abortions in the state, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
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Additionally, doctors at clinics that receive Title X funds but do not provide abortions would be largely prohibited from referring patients to clinics that do provide abortions.
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Conti: According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortions after 21 weeks make up less than 1.3% of all abortions in the United States.
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Under the proposal, insurers that provide coverage of abortions would also have to offer at least one plan providing the same benefits but excluding coverage of abortions.
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Headley was forced to have two abortions and told Ortega there were upwards of 60 other women in Scientology who were made to have abortions as well.
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Worldwide, the ability to plan pregnancy is associated with lower infant and maternal mortality, lower mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and fewer abortions, especially unsafe abortions.
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The report defined safe abortions as ones performed by trained individuals using recommended methods, less-safe abortions as ones done with trained providers using outdated methods or even a safe method performed by an untrained person, and unsafe abortions as ones performed by untrained individuals using dangerous methods.
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An investigator narrowed about 3,000 abortions conducted in 2018 down to 67 instances where the same woman had several abortions in the same year, according to the department.
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According to Health Department statistics, the overall rate of abortions in Oklahoma have dropped from 2002 to 2015, with the fewest number of abortions being recorded last year.
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Examining abortions performed between 2010 and 2014 in 182 countries and regions, the report indicated that 97% of unsafe abortions took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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"The thing that actually reduces the number of abortions — access to healthcare, access to contraceptives, comprehensive sex ed — these are the things that actually reduce abortions," said Linder.
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Because American dollars have been barred from funding abortions since the 1970s, none of the funding subject to this rule was paying for abortions in the first place.
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If early abortions increase as Zika infections rise, the culprit may be states' heavy restrictions on late-term abortions—and the 1973 Supreme Court case that enabled them.
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In January, the state legislature passed two new laws regulating abortions: The first made it illegal for women to get abortions at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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Wade on the Supreme Court and said women who have abortions should face "some form of punishment," later backtracking to say people who provide abortions should be punished.
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Though research indicates that telemedicine abortions have similar results to in-person abortions, Upadhyay noted that 19 states require abortion providers to be physically present with their patients.
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Sabotaging responsible family planning and cutting poor women off from access to family planning only results in more unplanned pregnancies and more abortions — including dangerous, high risk abortions.
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Our communities have been shaped in a million invisible ways by people having abortions—abortions that allowed them to build their lives and careers and families with intention.
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Abortions that occur more than halfway through pregnancy are very rare in the United States, and many states have laws that add restrictions to the timing of abortions.
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A nongovernmental organization that wants to raise awareness about the risks of clandestine abortions in the country estimates that between 600 and 800 abortions take place every day.
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According to their most recent annual report, Planned Parenthood performed over 328,000 abortions in 2015, which makes up approximately 35 percent of the total number of abortions nationwide.
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Details: In his opinion, Hudson said the law "is unnecessary and provides minimal medical benefits with respect to first trimester abortions" increasing the burden to women who seek abortions, per AP. Midwives, nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the proper training will be permitted to perform abortions, the Washington Post reports.
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Doctors who perform abortions are often unable to obtain admitting privileges for reasons unrelated to their competence, the law's critics say, and the privileges themselves do not make abortions safer, as hospitalizations after abortions are rare and women receive medical care at hospitals regardless of whether their doctors have admitting privileges.
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"We want abortions to be safe, and we want them to be few, but it should be legal, because there will be abortions," she said, according to the Times.
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Starting next month, those certifications will appear inside the ads, letting viewers know whether the organization "provides abortions" or "does not provide abortions," to prevent viewers from being misled.
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Many clinics that participate in the Title X program don't offer abortions, and it is already illegal to use federal funding to pay for abortions, except in limited circumstances.
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Planned Parenthood, which offers only medication-induced abortions at its two facilities in Arkansas, said the effect of the law would be to ban such abortions in the state.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that virtually all U.S. abortions occur within 13 weeks of gestation and two-thirds of abortions occur within eight weeks.
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Legislators in some states have already filed measures to prohibit or limit abortions that occur after 6900 weeks of pregnancy and to ban abortions conducted by dismembering a fetus.
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Family planning clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for abortions will not be eligible for certain federal funds under a new rule finalized by the Trump administration Friday.
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She talks about the students who've railed against abortions in the classroom, only to seek her out later to say they feel like hypocrites because they've had abortions themselves.
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As Justice Stephen Breyer explained in that case, abortions are a very safe medical procedure — "less than one-quarter of 1 percent" of first trimester abortions result in complications.
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But even at that, later abortions are extremely rare: only slightly more than 1 percent of abortions are performed at 21 weeks or later, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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Women who were refused abortions were nearly four times as likely to live below the federal poverty line four years later as women who had abortions, the researchers found.
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He would also seek a series of legislative changes focused on abortion rights, such as: prohibiting insurance companies from refusing to cover abortions; repealing the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal dollars from paying for abortions through programs like Medicaid; and blocking the sorts of laws aimed at reducing abortions that Republican-led state governments have implemented in recent years, such as mandatory waiting periods and ultrasound requirements before women are allowed to have abortions.
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According to the charity, the loss of its services during Trump's first term could cause 6.5 million unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million abortions, 2.1 million unsafe abortions, and 21,700 maternal deaths.
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Later that month, two speakers addressed our class: One was a rural family practice doctor who chose not to provide abortions; the other was an OB-GYN who provided abortions.
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An investigator took data from 3,000 abortions that took place in 2018 and narrowed down to 67 instances when the same patient might've had multiple abortions in a single year.
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When conservatives called him out on it, he completely changed his story, calling women who get abortions "victims" and saying doctors who perform abortions should be punished by law instead.
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But some patients do get abortions after that, in the second and third trimesters (about 1.4 percent of abortions happen at 21 weeks' gestation or later, according to Planned Parenthood).
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Read: The battle over abortions for undocumented teens is far from over The ACLU is representing four of the teens who sought abortions — including one who came forward in January.
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Abortion rights advocates say Trump's comments about abortions "moments before birth" are misleading, given that only around 1 percent of abortions nationwide take place at 21 weeks' gestation or later.
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Many women have abortions for economic reasons (and many abortion patients are have low incomes) and evidence suggests that increased access to birth control reduces unintended pregnancies and thereby abortions.
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Texas legislators are hearing testimony on Wednesday on a bill that would ban so-called partial birth abortions, and on another that would ban what abortion opponents term "dismemberment" abortions.
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State officials slammed the rules, which would cut off certain federal funds from family planning clinics that either provide abortions or refer patients for abortions, as dangerous for women's health.
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The surgical procedure is usually used in late-term miscarriages and abortions to remove the fetal tissue as safely as possible, and accounts for less than 0.5% of all abortions.
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Under the rule, released late last week, family planning clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for abortions will not be eligible for federal funds under the Title X program.
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Clinics in those states help absorb the high demand for abortions in Texas, where access is limited, said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, an obstetrician-gynecologist who provides abortions in the Midwest.
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So far, this fiscal year, Landeau said they've raised enough money to pay for 2000,219 abortions — which is as many abortions as they've funded in the past three years combined.
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So far, this fiscal year, Landeau said they've raised enough money to pay for 1,500 abortions — which is as many abortions as they've funded in the past three years combined.
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The remaining clinic, in Little Rock, which currently offers both surgical and medication abortions, would have to limit its practice to surgical abortions, leaving Arkansas women with no medication option.
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Because it does not require surgery, the method is increasingly selected by women seeking abortions early in their pregnancies, and it now accounts for about one in four abortions nationally.
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One Planned Parenthood medical director told a journalist in the late 1990s that he expected medication abortions to make up 30 percent of all abortions within three or four years.
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Abortion advocates claim that these abortions are done to save women's lives or to end "fetal abnormalities," but the cases they reference are a small minority of late-term abortions.
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"Contrary to what its detractors claim, the Reproductive Health Act does not allow abortions minutes before birth, nor does it allow third-trimester abortions 'for any reason,'" Mr. Cuomo wrote.
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They also removed provisions requiring a 72 hour waiting period, criminal penalties for physicians who perform illegal abortions, and an exception for abortions if the fetus has a fatal condition.
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Abortions after 24 weeks — when a healthy fetus is typically viable — are extremely rare and account for less than 1% of all abortions, per the CDC, reports The New York Times.
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Missouri is one of seven states down to only one clinic currently providing abortions but after the April court ruling Planned Parenthood said it would provide abortions at several additional clinics.
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Providers of women's health services including abortions argue the rules are part of a nationwide agenda to place restrictions on abortions and make it harder for women to get the procedure.
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Most late-term abortions are induction abortions, committed by using a long needle to pierce a baby's brain or heart to deliver a lethal dose of digoxin, which causes cardiac arrest.
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She most recently explained her views on late-term abortions during an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation in September, when she indicated that she does not oppose late-term abortions.
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As a result, abortions declined to a record-low rate as of 2014, when, for the first time since 1975, the number of abortions in the U.S. dropped under one million.
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Opponents of the Texas law said they felt hopeful after Kennedy noted the number of medical abortions in Texas has increased relative to surgical abortions -- the opposite of the national trend.
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State legislatures have proposed 15 bills that would ban abortions after 20 weeks and 11 bills that would ban abortions if the sole reason is a genetic anomaly like Down syndrome.
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The four clinics we studied saw an 80 percent decline in medication abortions between 2010 and 2014, compared with a 17 percent decline in all abortions over the same time period.
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The poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 58 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of Republicans, oppose barring federal funding from clinics that provide abortions or referrals for abortions.
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Background: Under the rule, released late last week, family planning clinics that provide abortions or refer patients for abortions will not be eligible for federal funds under the Title X program.
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Women living in states with the fewest abortion clinics had 54 percent fewer legal abortions — a difference of 11 abortions for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44.
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Seven teenagers in ORR custody asked for abortions between March and December 2017, and another five subsequently asked for abortions between December 2017 and February 2018, according to depositions of White.
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Many Republicans oppose any funding for Planned Parenthood, citing religious grounds, because its services include abortions, although it receives no federal funding or reimbursement for abortions, as stipulated by federal law.
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Women who seek abortions face spending 21 years in prison, while healthcare providers who refer women to get abortions abroad can be fined up to 22015,222 euros, according to Amnesty International.
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The young women of today don't know what my generation knows about abortions in back alleys, self-induced abortions using hangers, trips to foreign countries and huge payments to illegal providers.
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People who want abortions in Texas must still wait 24 hours after the initial consultation before they can undergo the procedure, and private insurance can't be used to pay for abortions.
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" Legalizing abortion, it claimed, "has not eliminated substandard medical care, kept people without medical licenses from performing abortions, ensured competent post-abortion care, nor prevented women from dying from unsafe abortions.
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J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed into law the Reproductive Health Act, which removed prohibitions on some late-term abortions and scrapped rules such as felony penalties for doctors who perform abortions.
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He faulted doctors seeking to provide abortions in the state for not trying hard enough to obtain admitting privileges and said abortions would remain available after the law went into effect.
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Opponents of the law said they felt hopeful after Kennedy noted that the number of surgical abortions in Texas has increased relative to medical abortions — the opposite of the national trend.
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When we are denied abortions, we are three times as likely to end up below the federal poverty line, compared with those who are able to get the abortions they want.
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On that very first day in the White House, he imposed the "global gag rule," which stopped United States government funding to overseas organizations that provide abortions or counseling on abortions.
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Then, the now-defunct group PEI Reproductive Rights Organization asked for abortions to be provided in a hospital setting so that anti-choice protesters couldn't picket or harass people seeking abortions.
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No — "Plan B does not cause abortions," Minkin says.
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The fund will go largely to the New York Abortion Access Fund, a group that helps fund abortions for individuals, including those from out of state, seeking abortions in New York state.
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Marie Stopes International said the loss of its services during Trump's four years in office could cause 6.5 million unintended pregnancies, 2.2 million abortions, 2.1 million unsafe abortions and 21,700 maternal deaths.
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" The statement goes on to explain that regulators looked at data on patients who had multiple abortions in the same year, and then "the data was further narrowed to exclude multiple abortions.
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The Illinois House passed a bill in May further protecting abortions by removing some of the barriers for abortions and penalties for doctors, positioning Illinois to become a major U.S. abortion destination.
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Collins said she wasn't aware of Giesbrecht's pregnancies or abortions and was "floored" by a revelation made in court in April that she'd had 10 legally-induced abortions from 1994 to 2011.
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John Kasich on Tuesday vetoed a so-called heartbeat bill that would have outlawed abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and instead signed a different bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.
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John Kasich on Tuesday vetoed a so-called heartbeat bill that would have outlawed abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and instead signed a different bill banning abortions after 220 weeks.
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The current study focused on 1,000 women who used an online telemedicine service to get medical abortions in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, where abortions are illegal in most circumstances.
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Women's health providers, which provide abortions among other services, argue the rules are part of a nationwide agenda to place restrictions on abortions, making it harder for women to get the procedure.
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Between 2009 and 2016, the number of medical facilities in Virginia providing abortions declined by more than half making it more "difficult and expensive" for women to get abortions, the groups argue.
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She also said that with other states also seeking to restrict access to abortions and with Republicans seeking to defund Planned Parenthood, proponents of abortions rights could not afford to let up.
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The Health Ministry estimated that there are as many as half a million illegal abortions each year in Argentina; thousands of women, particularly poor women, are hospitalized each year from unsafe abortions.
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The controversial bill would bar state or local governments from penalizing healthcare providers that decline to offer abortions – a direct rebuttal to California's recent policy requiring health plans to cover elective abortions.
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Moreover, the reasons for fictional characters seeking abortions centered on immaturity and lack of desire to parent, which contrasts with the more common reasons women get abortions: financial hardship or mistimed pregnancy.
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At this point, I believe that the best way to reduce the number of abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies and treat the reasons why women seek abortions in the first place.
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That's because while CPCs look a lot like clinics that provide abortions and even set up shop near real reproductive health clinics, their sole purpose is to discourage women from having abortions.
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It's not only false to suggest, as Trump did, that Hillary Clinton supports abortions "in the ninth month" of pregnancy — those kinds of abortions don't even exist, as Vox's Sarah Kliff explained.
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A majority of voters (55 percent) oppose banning Medicaid from covering abortions at all — even though Medicaid has been banned from covering most abortions for 40 years due to the Hyde Amendment.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, broke a streak of legislative inaction to schedule votes on bills to bar most abortions after 20 weeks and mandate care for babies born after abortions.
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" Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for Students for Life of America, said her organization called medication abortions "toilet bowl abortions," adding that "at the rallies, we often bring toilet seats as a visual.
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Protecting infants from horrifically painful late-term abortions, infants born alive after failed abortions and minors being trafficked across state lines to evade state parental notice laws — all these are on tap.
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And, after the number of abortions declined for several years, the loss of clinics also apparently led to a slight increase in abortions in 2015, the most recent year with reported figures.
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In a statement on Saturday, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio said it would keep its doors open and continue offering surgical abortions despite Yost's order, arguing that surgical abortions are essential services.
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Late-term abortions are rare: About 1.3 percent of abortions performed in the United States in 2015 took place in or after the 21st week, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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This policy will not end abortions, it will only end access to safe abortions, which is why I am committed to protecting the right to choose whether a pregnancy is taken to term.
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Because of regulations in place preventing government funding of abortions, the nondiscrimination clause applied only when a health insurer or organization provided the same types of procedures for both abortions and nonabortion services.
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Second, it claimed the Fourteenth Amendment's due-process clause protected Planned Parenthood against the rule that it could not perform abortions at the three (of 27) clinics in Ohio where abortions are provided.
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These include the following: While Georgia's "heartbeat" bill has provoked concern that it could be used to prosecute patients for seeking abortions, Missouri's law contains a provision exempting those seeking abortions from prosecution.
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The takeaway for most members of the Committee was that the Global Gag Rule was a destructive policy that led to more unintended pregnancies and more abortions — especially more underground, unsafe, dangerous abortions.
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There is a government law that prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions called the Hyde Amendment, which is what Planned Parenthood points to when questioned on taxpayer money paying for abortions.
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Sources close to the administration say the regulation would resemble the Reagan-era rule that prohibited health care providers receiving Title X funding from providing abortions, or information and/or referrals for abortions.
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Though framed as regulations designed to protect the health of women seeking abortions, their practical effect was to dramatically impede access to abortions, with little if any real improvement in health or safety.
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" It is a measure of the draconian views of the "No" side that they refer to pregnancies where there are fatal fetal abnormalities as "hard cases," and most other abortions as "social abortions.
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The case centers on California's attempt to force so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which exist primarily to dissuade women from having abortions, to display prominent advertisements detailing the availability of state-funded abortions.
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" If you're wondering what non-essential abortions are, his letter clarified: "Non-essential surgical abortions are those that can be delayed without undue risk to the current or future health of a patient.
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Trump touted a number of steps his administration has taken to limit certain late-stage abortions and divert federal funding away from clinics that offer abortions, in addition to other women's health services.
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Republicans, including Blackburn, have long opposed providing federal funds to the organization because it also provides abortions (even though there's already a law that bars taxpayer dollars from going to pay for abortions).
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While induced labor is a form of late-term abortion, abortions after 21 weeks -- including those before the 24-week standard of viability -- account for 1.3% of all abortions in recent CDC data.
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"I want to see abortions in America reduced," he said.
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Yesterday, Alabama followed suit, restricting abortions in almost all cases.
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Women who get abortions aren't who you think they are.
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Wade, the decision to allow abortions would go to states.
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We do both medical and surgical abortions — it's pretty even.
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Access to abortions has few barriers, the same for contraception.
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"I think we'd go back to the back alley abortions."
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That includes his past objections to Medicaid funding of abortions.
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Providing abortions in Alabama was already hard Even before Gov.
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Mike Parson signed a bill criminalizing abortions after 8 weeks.
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Barbara Ehrenreich, 64, has had two abortions and two children.
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Women seeking abortions would not be penalized under the bill.
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But he wouldn't say who should be punished for abortions.
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The congressman protested, arguing that Obamacare did not fund abortions.
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The Collective helped provide abortions for women before Roe v.
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In 2015, 1.3% of abortions took place after 21 weeks.
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Greg Abbott signed a bill restricting insurance coverage for abortions.
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Sixteen states have moved to ban abortions after 19 weeks.
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We actually know how to reduce the number of abortions.
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Illegal abortions will look very different in the 21st century.
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No healthcare provider will have to necessarily offer abortions, either.
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Opponents say it would make it impossible to receive abortions.
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Wade, and that women who had abortions should be punished.
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Women from neighbouring countries might come to Argentina for abortions.
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Some resort to backstreet abortions or unsafe medication sold online.
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Minnesota is considering a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.
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Current Ohio law permits abortions up to about 20 weeks.
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The organization provides abortions and other health services to women.
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The rule wouldn't prevent federal money being used for abortions.
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Federal law already prohibits government spending from paying for abortions.
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Many European countries have a 12 week limit on abortions.
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That drama, it turns out, revolves around Claire's three abortions.
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Women seek out abortions for a variety of complex reasons.
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The Alabama bill goes further, banning abortions at any time.
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About 1 percent of abortions take place after 21 weeks.
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One effectively barred abortions starting at 18 weeks of pregnancy.
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Thus the stabilization fund can't be used to cover abortions.
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Many pregnant women underwent secret abortions to avoid getting killed.
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There's nothing more I would rather do than do abortions.
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The crisis pregnancy centers counsel women not to have abortions.
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Williams also brought up Alabama's controversial measures to ban abortions.
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They mostly want to prevent as many abortions as possible.
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That's an astonishing 2628,28503 abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics annually.
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Doctors could face 99 years in prison for providing abortions.
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Wade and allow states to ban or heavily restrict abortions.
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The law prohibits federal funds from being used for abortions.
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An estimated 226.49,25 abortions were performed in Nepal in 22001.
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Planned Parenthood had also started to provide abortions in Louisville.
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Woman also had to drive much further to get abortions.
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Currently, federal funding for abortions is banned in most cases.
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If you vote No, Irish women will still have abortions.
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Legal bans do not stop abortions; rather they kill women.
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"Banning abortion will only stop safe, legal abortions," adds Brewer.
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The bill also called for imprisoning doctors who performed abortions.
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Ready access to LARCs hugely reduce unplanned pregnancies and abortions.
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" Matthews: "Is he responsible under the law for these abortions?
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He also believes women who have abortions should be punished.
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It provides abortions for up to 16 weeks after conception.
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This applies to women who have abortions outside Poland, too.
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The expansion would enable poor women to obtain elective abortions.
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We weren't allowed to have abortions or leave the country.
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The second, which requires clinics providing abortions have surgical facilities.
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Cut off federal funding to foreign charities that provide abortions.
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Wade, the high court ruling from 28500 that legalized abortions.
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Mississippi recently passed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks.
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If you guessed, "People seeking abortions" you would be correct.
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But in developing countries, only half of abortions are safe.
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Horrific infanticides will be replaced with humane, painless chicken abortions.
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Supporters of the policy say it will decrease abortions abroad.
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Only the clinics that provide abortions have the ultrasound equipment.
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Alabama lawmakers voted during this term to ban most abortions.
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But I would have had as many abortions as necessary.
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I am an obstetrician and gynecologist trained to do abortions.
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Each year thousands of women were hospitalized for botched abortions.
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Had midwives been as busy performing abortions as delivering babies?
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Homer will leave St. Cloud's; he refuses to perform abortions.
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Eventually, red states will no longer have clinics offering abortions.
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In Texas, hundreds of women seeking abortions are turned away.
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Thousands of Irish women travel to Britain annually for abortions.
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The universities will not be required to offer surgical abortions.
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Klopfer performed abortions for decades at three clinics in Indiana.
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In Texas, hundreds of women seeking abortions are turned away.
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One, in Little Rock, offers both medication and surgical abortions.
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But a new bill threatens the legal status of abortions.
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Current Georgia law restricts abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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Still, Mr. Trump has made a priority of restricting abortions.
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People seeking abortions in Georgia face a number of restrictions.
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Seeking to keep teens in immigration detention from obtaining abortions.
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Ron Hood said of his bill to prohibit all abortions.
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Yes, China has relied on forced sterilizations and forced abortions.
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READ: How women are training to do their own abortions.
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In essence, personhood laws outlaw most, if not all, abortions.
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Furthermore, in Mississippi, only one health center currently provides abortions.
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Three patients waiting for abortions were taken to a hospital.
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Medical abortions are a nonsurgical way to end a pregnancy.
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People seeking abortions in Alabama face a number of restrictions.
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It is unclear if the new clinics will provide abortions.
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She emphasized that her overall goal is to reduce abortions.
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People who have abortions deserve empathy and understanding, not judgment.
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This has resulted in abortions, killings or abandonment of girls.
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The "abortion pill" accounted for 39% of abortions in 2017.
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This is not because providing abortions has become more affordable.
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Providing abortions will be an essential part of my job.
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But most women don't seek later abortions because they're indecisive.
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Women in New Zealand are rarely, if ever, denied abortions.
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Like, for example, what doctors might tell patients seeking abortions.
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Thanks to increased access to contraception, as well, to a lesser degree, to curbs on abortions in some states, the number of abortions performed in America has fallen by about a third since 1990.
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Campaigners say Kenyan authorities - influenced by powerful Christian groups - have in recent years made it harder for women to access safe abortions by withdrawing guidelines on conducting abortions and banning health workers from training.
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Many of those efforts have culminated in so-called heartbeat bills that ban abortions after six weeks, a time frame so restrictive that critics say it effectively bans abortions for most people seeking them.
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Only a tiny fraction of abortions ever take place that late: Nationwide, about 1.3% of abortions are performed during or after 2020 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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While federal law prevents federal funding from paying for abortions themselves, many clinics that receive family planning funding for services like contraception, cancer screenings, and gynecological exams also provide abortions on the same premises.
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First, the obvious: Laws that restrict access to abortion are not an effective way to end or greatly reduce the number of abortions because people will continue to have abortions regardless of the law.
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READ: Liberal Supreme Court justices criticizes Texas abortion law Those who are sincere in the desire to reduce the numbers of abortions should recognise that restrictive abortion laws do not result in fewer abortions.
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President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have long vowed to defund the organization because it also provides abortions, although no federal funds are allowed to pay for abortions already, with exceedingly rare exceptions.
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Given that 75% of patients who have abortions are low-income, they are often most significantly impacted by restrictions on access to clinic based care impacting likelihood or willingness to self manage their abortions.
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O'Rourke sponsored a radical pro-abortion bill that would have eliminated nearly all state and federal abortion regulations, including waiting periods, informed consent requirements, bans on late-term abortions, sex-selective abortions, and more.
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First imposed under former President Ronald Reagan, the rule prohibits groups getting U.S. aid abroad from providing abortions or counseling patients about abortions, even if their funds for those activities come from other sources.
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They and other leaders have made it increasingly difficult for Texas women to get abortions in recent years, passing and backing laws that have increased restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors who provide abortions.
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Since taking office in 2017, Trump has reinstated a ban on US government funding for international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions, appointed anti-abortion judges and opposed abortions later in pregnancy.
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That case concerns the legality of a Louisiana abortion law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortions are provided.
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Critics of the law contend that it would leave the state with only one doctor authorized to perform abortions, while proponents have argued that it protects the health and safety of women seeking abortions.
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The law requires clinics carrying out abortions to have costly hospital-grade facilities and requires physicians carrying out abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of where they are operating.
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Third-trimester abortions represent less than 1 percent of all abortions performed in the United States and happen when the mother's life or health is at risk, or when the fetus is not viable.
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"Because abortions are an important cause of maternal mortality, the increase in abortion uptake might also increase maternal deaths — and possibly disproportionately given that abortions under the policy could be less safe," he said.
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South Dakota also requires people seeking abortions to wait 72 hours between receiving a consultation and actually getting the procedure, and abortions can't be performed more than 20 weeks after an egg is fertilized.
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A 2017 study also found the abortions facilitated by Women on Web, whose service is very similar to Aid Access, to be as safe as abortions performed in clinics — which is to say, they're safe.
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This month, a law is due to take effect in Texas that requires burial of fetal remains from abortions, which pro-choice advocates call unnecessary and an effort to shame women who have undergone abortions.
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Or even worse, women are forced to have induced, clandestine abortions, often resorting to painful and unsafe methods because abortions are haram (sinful) in Islam and only permitted when the woman's life is in danger.
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While dilation and evacuation is used in most second-trimester abortions, nearly 90 percent of all abortions are performed in the first trimester, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday North Carolina's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional because "a state is never allowed to prohibit any swath of pre-viability abortions outright," Reuters first reported.
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Back in June, the state vetoed a bill that would make all abortions illegal in the state and would punish healthcare providers who performed abortions with up to three years in jail, according to Newsweek.
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Judge Jerry Smith, who wrote the panel's majority opinion, also reasoned that driving distances will not increase for women seeking abortions and that "at most, only 30 percent of women" seeking abortions will be affected.
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"The Legislative and Executive Branch are opposed to State funded elective abortions; the only branch of government that insists on State funded elective abortions is the Supreme Court," Dunleavy wrote in conjunction with the veto.
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The government warning follows reports that doctors in public and private hospitals in the east African nation are routinely accepting payments to perform abortions, and studies that show high rates of complications from illegal abortions.
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"Among the developed regions, the distributions of abortions across the safety categories were similar with the majority of abortions being performed under safe conditions, except for Eastern Europe, where 14% were less safe," Ganatra said.
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In March he approved a law in Indiana which would outlaw any abortions on grounds of a foetus's race or ancestry, but also—controversially—abortions based on a diagnosis of Down's Syndrome or other handicap.
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The problem stems from how businesses categorize themselves in Google listings, anti-abortion clinics or organizations that deter abortions often use the same keywords as abortion clinics or places that help with carrying out abortions.
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While federal law prevents the use of federal funds for abortions, anti-abortion groups and conservatives have long argued money is fungible and can indirectly support abortions if it goes to groups like Planned Parenthood.
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Contrary to the dubious claim that the gag rule will reduce abortions, we know from previous iterations of the policy that unsafe abortions, unintended pregnancies and maternal deaths will increase as a result of it.
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Sometimes people couldn't see how forced state abortions and the state limiting access to abortions are quite similar; they are both the government trying to control women's bodies and trying to control women's reproductive rights.
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The high court will review a controversial Louisiana law from 2014 that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 1993 miles of the facility where the abortions are provided.
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Justices in March will hear arguments for the controversial Louisiana law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the facility where the abortions are provided.
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Under current law, Title X funds already may not be used to pay for abortions, but the new rule would require health care providers in the program not to refer their patients for abortions elsewhere.
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Sanders has voted against bills that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks and opposes the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal programs like Medicaid and Title X from directly funding abortions except in rare cases.
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During the same period, abortions happened roughly as frequently in the most restrictive countries as they did in the least restrictive: 37 versus 34 abortions each year for every 1,20173 women aged 15 to 44.
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Instead, they often focused on things like heightening providers' requirements for reporting information about abortion, restricting abortions sought after a diagnosis of Down syndrome, or mandating that doctors tell patients their abortions may be reversible.
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Health clinics have long been barred from using Title X money, or any federal funds, to pay for abortions, but they have been able to provide abortions and other family planning services under one roof.
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"More women who were trying to escape abuse or poverty by having abortions feel safer in openly telling their stories than women who had abortions just out of their God-given free will," she says.
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Women can't just get abortions whenever they want in their pregnancy.
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"Women don't have abortions in late term for convenience," writes Draper.
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Wade and punishing women will not stop them from having abortions.
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Abortions are not going to stop just because they are illegal.
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"Least-safe" abortions are performed by untrained individuals using dangerous methods.
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Women were forced to have abortions to avoid breaking the law.
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But every single year, we kill hundreds of people in abortions.
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Former FARC fighters have also reported being forced to have abortions.
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Their proposed statute would also hold the women seeking abortions culpable.
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Calloway said her military health coverage does not pay for abortions.
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Missouri passed a bill banning abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy.
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But with the debates comes a lot of misinformation about abortions.
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It generally would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
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And you know what, we should pay for everyone else abortions.
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Now, the tricky part: Women cross state lines to get abortions.
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Demostrators protest anti-abortions laws in Jackson, Mississippi, May 21, 2019.
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They've also started appearing on days the clinic doesn't perform abortions.
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People seek abortions after 20 weeks for a variety of reasons.
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Texas bans abortions after 20 weeks, giving her case special urgency.
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Pro-life campaigners have succeeded in making abortions harder to get.
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Typically, patients undergoing medication abortions take two pills, mifepristone and misoprostol.
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Under the current law, women who obtain abortions can be jailed.
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People who receive abortions do not face punishment under the law.
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Planned Parenthood offers only medication-induced abortions at its Arkansas facilities.
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The Alabama law would jail doctors for providing abortions, not women.
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Medicaid funds have never been used for abortions in the state.
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"Ives wants to ban abortions," the narrator says in the ad.
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I don't know whether they had abortions or carried their pregnancies.
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For decades, the law has blocked public funding of elective abortions.
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Unintended pregnancies can lead to abortions, medical complications, and economic problems.
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That figure has now dropped to 20133 abortions per 1,000 women.
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All four countries forbid abortions, except to save the mother's life.
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THE best way to prevent abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
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Can you talk a little about why people seek such abortions?
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Access to abortions in the "show-me" state is already limited.
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Instead, it would ensure that taxpayers do not indirectly fund abortions.
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About half of all abortions happen outside proper hospitals and clinics.
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Clinicians who perform abortions are sometimes shunned by colleagues and neighbours.
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However, tens of thousands of abortions are carried out each year.
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"When you ban abortions, they don't stop happening," one user commented.
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Planned Parenthood says 3% of the services it provides are abortions.
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Worldwide, it's estimated that 25 million unsafe abortions occur each year.
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Ninety-one percent of abortions occur in the first 13 weeks.
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Some were forced to self-induce abortions to end unwanted pregnancies.
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Forced abortions, extermination, labor camps, torture, malnourishment of his own people.
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One reason why: Many self-induced abortions look exactly like miscarriages.
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Fears surrounding the punitive law mean self-induced abortions are common.
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And there's no evidence linking infertility to uncomplicated abortions, she says.
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The other measure would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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How can you be an ally to people who've had abortions?
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In England, Scotland and Wales, women have access to legal abortions.
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In Colombia, women go to dangerous, unregulated clinics to have abortions.
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Wade, brought down statewide bans on first trimester abortions, established a
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Wade, Medicaid covered abortions, and then Henry Hyde entered the picture.
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Some hospitals do not offer privileges to doctors who do abortions.
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They want to defund Planned Parenthood simply because it provides abortions.
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This step would take the administration's push to curtail abortions further.
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In fact, first trimester abortions have a risk of less than .
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Overall, 47 percent of the patients had first trimester surgical abortions.
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Another 27 percent of the women had first trimester medical abortions.
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By law, the family planning program does not pay for abortions.
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Officials in Mississippi said women could obtain abortions in neighboring states.
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Hellerstedt, because it imposed "an undue burden" on women seeking abortions.
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They also focused on his record on birth control and abortions.
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The groups had accused the agency of being complicit in abortions.
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Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)Dona Wells vividly remembers when abortions were illegal.
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It was sought by the state's only clinic that offers abortions.
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He also opposed apartheid in South Africa and supported legal abortions.
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That is far below the 1.6 million abortions performed in 1990.
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You can be pro-life without shaming women who seek abortions.
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Kavanaugh asked whether the country Jane Doe came from allows abortions.
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Gretchen Whitmer (D) has vowed to veto any legislation banning abortions.
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Two of those women suffered miscarriages and two opted for abortions.
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Title X funding does not pay for abortions, but it should.
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The majority of people who have abortions are people of color.
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Fetal tissue can be acquired from miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and abortions.
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That figure has now dropped to 28 abortions per 220,000 women.
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John Kasich recently signed a ban on abortions after 20 weeks.
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She also mentions she has had other abortions in the past.
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"Only about 4 percent of abortions happen in hospitals," she said.
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Methotrexate can be used to induce medical abortions in early pregnancies.
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Some of them become pregnant and resort to illegal, underground abortions.
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Carhart (2007), which upheld a federal law prohibiting partial-birth abortions.
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Arthur: Yes, evangelical Christians see reducing abortions as a key priority.
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Federal law already prohibits government financing for abortions, with some exceptions.
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When abortion was illegal, women still had abortions in great numbers.
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None of Alabama's three abortion clinics perform abortions past 219 weeks.
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None of Alabama's three abortion clinics perform abortions past 22 weeks.
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A substantial percentage of maternal mortality is attributed to unsafe abortions.
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Actually, abortions of any kind don't generally happen on network television.
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The story estimated the group had performed 328,323 abortions in 2016.
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These defects are usually incompatible with life, and spontaneous abortions occur.
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In 2018, the fund paid for abortions for nearly 600 women.
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While doctors were prosecuted for abortions before Roe, patients rarely were.
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At least the Alabama law exempts people having abortions from prosecution.
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Other states, like Texas and Louisiana, will restrict or prohibit abortions.
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In 2007, state records show, there were 11,267 abortions in Alabama.
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Gynecologists, for example, may refuse to perform abortions on those grounds.
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The black market for surgical abortions, meanwhile, can be more dangerous.
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For clinics that don't perform abortions, that's less of a concern.
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Around 287,000 medication abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2014.
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The others, in Little Rock and Fayetteville, offer only medication abortions.
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Abortions aren't going to stop, even if they make them illegal.
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Related Links: Many having abortions here journey from out of town.
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Its leaders say they will continue to lobby against allowing abortions.
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Planned Parenthood says abortions make up 3% of its provided services.
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In fact, most minors who have abortions do involve their parents.
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Pope Francis is giving Catholic priests the power to forgive abortions.
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Francis's announcement on Monday means priests may not forgive abortions perpetually.
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The state considers abortions after 22 weeks to be late term.
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Alabama, for example passed a law that banned nearly all abortions.
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Many other states are considering bans on abortions after 2202 weeks.
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It will also allow non-physician medical professionals to provide abortions.
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The number of abortions has also reached a record low nationally.
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A South Carolina measure would ban abortions six weeks after conception.
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Let's be clear: This isn't about the government paying for abortions.
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About 2,000 women a year in Mississippi receive abortions, Parker said.
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Dr. Klopfer stopped performing abortions in November 2015, the site said.
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And third-trimester procedures are a small fraction of all abortions.
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Two of the abortions completed, but four of the fetuses survived.
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CNN: Can you explain why abortions happen later in a pregnancy?
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The study also included 10 women who received first-trimester abortions.
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Clinton views later abortions is one of compassion, not just legality.
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Chemical abortions such as RU-85033 are no better for women.
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Argentina's Supreme Court decriminalized abortions in cases of rape in 2012.
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In 2016, Francis gave Catholic priests the power to forgive abortions.
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For decades, thousands of Irish women sought abortions illegally each year.
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The Hyde Amendment will not prevent women from getting legal abortions.
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The policy will also limit access to providers of safe abortions.
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They will also result in more abortions, most of them unsafe.
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But that doesn't mean women in Argentina are not having abortions.
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But fights over their access to abortions predate the Trump administration.
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He does not support a ban on abortions at 20 weeks.
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Previously, such abortions were allowed only to save a woman's life.
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The bill seeks to ban race or sex-selective abortions, i.e.
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People who are having abortions are increasingly using medication over surgery.
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But there's just no way Planned Parenthood would stop performing abortions.
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The proposed new bill would ban abortions 20 weeks after fertilization.
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The controversy has centered on a provision concerning third-trimester abortions.
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In three separate letters sent Tuesday, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, and anti-abortion groups, asked the Department of Health and Human Services to return to a Reagan-era policy that would cut all Title X federal family planning funding from organizations that refer patients for abortions, counsel patients about abortions, or provide abortions in the same building as other family planning services.
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"While both Africa and Latin America had low proportions of abortions that were carried out in safe conditions, it was striking to note that among the unsafe abortions, the vast majority in the Latin America region were performed under less safe conditions (59.7%) while in Africa the majority of unsafe abortions were performed under the least safe conditions (48%)," she said.
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He said women should be punished for getting abortions "There has to be some form of punishment," Trump said in March when asked if women should be punished for getting abortions should the practice be outlawed.
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Pence reminded the crowded that Trump signed an executive order earlier this week blocking federal funding for abortions overseas and promised that Congress will work to end federal funding going to American organizations that perform abortions.
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Missouri's lone clinic that provides abortions -- Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region -- is suing state officials because the state refuses to renew the clinic's license that allows it to perform abortions.
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Underscoring how common abortions have become, María said that one of her neighbors was now running a clandestine clinic in her apartment, where she said she performs abortions by inserting bars of soap into women's vaginas.
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Due to a federal law, none of these reimbursements actually go toward providing abortions, but anti-abortion advocates claim that the reimbursements for other services help keep Planned Parenthood alive, enabling it to continue providing abortions.
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The legal fight over whether two pregnant, undocumented young women in US custody can get abortions ended Tuesday night, but a broader challenge to the Trump administration's efforts to block abortions for teenage detainees will continue.
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Some do not support abortions even in the case of rape or incest, and Texas Right to Life taught them that common hormonal birth control methods, like the pill, the patch, and IUDs, could induce abortions.
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Judge Kristine Baker issued a temporary restraining order blocking the law along with two other restrictions: a ban on all abortions after 18 weeks' gestation, and a ban on abortions because of fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.
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When the organization is certified, their ads will have a disclosure that reads either "Provides abortions" or "Does not provide abortions," with these disclosures rolling out on all Search ad formats, according to a Google post.
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Most of the 85033 million abortions in the United States every year are in the first trimester, however, according to the Guttmacher Institute, as many as 12,000 abortions annually occur after the 21st week of pregnancy.
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Last year, the number of women who sought medical attention for botched abortions outpaced the number of women who received legal abortions by nearly 100 to one, according to estimates by the country's Ministry of Health.
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Trump has seized on the bill, as well as another proposal in Virginia that would allow third-trimester abortions in certain cases, to hammer Democrats and call on Congress to pass legislation outlawing late-term abortions.
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The bill also repeals the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funds from being used to cover abortions outside the cases of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life; which means the plan would cover abortions.
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The most controversial aspect of the campaign is likely to be the issue of removing the 24-week time limit on abortions, but Bpas insists decriminalization would not lead to an increase in late-term abortions.
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" The dispute began in August 2014, when a California agency sent letters to insurance companies in the state saying that they had to cover abortions, and forbidding the exclusion of abortions that are not "medically necessary.
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"They put in a billion dollars that wasn't subject to the Hyde amendment which means you could spend up to a billion dollars effectively on state-sponsored abortions, state-funded abortions," Biggs said on Fox News.
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After analyzing all abortions that took place worldwide between 2010 and 2014 — the most recent year for which data is available — researchers discovered that an overwhelming number of those unsafe abortions take place in developing countries.
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According to one study of women living with domestic abusers, those who were able to obtain abortions were much more likely to leave the relationship than those who sought abortions but weren't able to get them.
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In a statement, Jeanne Mancini, the president of March for Life, praised the president for appointing anti-abortion judges, cutting taxpayer funding for abortions in the United States and abroad, and outspokenly opposing late-term abortions.
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There were 452 whose pregnancies were within two weeks of the clinic's limit and who received abortions and 231 women who were denied abortions because their pregnancies were up to three weeks past the clinic's limit.
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In 2011, Daugaard signed into law a bill requiring women who want abortions to first visit "pregnancy help centers," which are better known as crisis pregnancy centers and which try to dissuade women from getting abortions.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office called on U.S. authorities on Tuesday to ensure that women have access to safe abortions, saying bans lead to risky underground abortions that can endanger a woman's life.
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Instead, the new decision defined a period of "fetal viability" in which states could regulate abortions and said states could regulate abortions earlier as long as the rules did not impose an "undue burden" on the woman.
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Studies to measure the proportion of abortions deemed unsafe are under development, but nearly $300 million "is spent each year on treating complications from unsafe abortions," said co-author Dr. Bela Ganatra of the World Health Organization.
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Related: Doctors Could Face Jail Time for Performing Abortions in Oklahoma In a surprise move on Friday, Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed legislation that would have made abortions punishable by up to three years in prison.
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Hellerstedt Kennedy found additional undue burdens in Texas requirements that physicians performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles and that facilities providing abortions meet the same standards as all facilities performing ambulatory surgeries.
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Despite the facts that the clinics that perform abortions are separate legal and financial entities, that federal funds are not used to pay for abortions, and that abortion only constitutes 3% of the work Planned Parenthood does.
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State health officials said they did not renew the clinic's license to perform abortions because they were unable to interview several physicians who were involved in what they said were multiple life-threatening abortions at the clinic.
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Instead, it introduced three exceptions to allow medically controlled abortions for women in England, Scotland and Wales: Abortions must be certified by two doctors, be performed by a doctor, and take place in a licensed abortion clinic.
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While the use of federal funds for abortions is banned under current law, Title X money that goes to clinics that provide abortions can indirectly support the procedure, the administration argues, freeing up money for those services.
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One required clinic doctors performing abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and the other mandated that all clinics, even those that provided nonsurgical medication abortions, meet the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers.
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In 85033, a California state agency required all health insurance plans to cover abortions, which Republicans say is a clear violation of the federal Weldon Amendment, protecting insurance plans from retribution if they decline to cover abortions.
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Separately, a Democratic state lawmaker in Virginia recently introduced a bill to expand access to abortions in that state and making it easier for women to get third trimester abortions if their health was threatened by pregnancy.
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David Brooks To: Democratic Party Leaders From: Imaginary Democratic Consultant Re: Late-Term Abortions Dear Democratic Leaders, Last week I watched as our senators voted down the Republican bill that would have banned abortions after 20 weeks.
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Sixty-nine percent of respondents incorrectly assumed that most abortions occur eight weeks or more into a pregnancy -- per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost two-thirds of abortions occurred before eight weeks was up.
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Multiple studies now indicate that abortion bans do not bring down the number of abortions — instead, they endanger the lives of women who need those abortions in the first place, by forcing them to seek dangerous alternatives.
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The latest abortion rate was 11.6 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 -- down slightly from 11.8 in 2015 -- while the overall abortion ratio ticked down to 186 abortions per 1,2023 live births.
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The latest abortion rate was 85003 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 — down slightly from 11.8 in 2015 — while the overall abortion ratio ticked down to 186 abortions per 1,000 live births.
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In January, seven out of 10 millennials said that they support limitations on abortion such as keeping federal tax dollars from paying for abortions, prohibiting second- and third-trimester abortions, and requiring parental notification and waiting periods.
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The Republican-controlled Ohio House of Representatives last week approved a measure that would ban abortions at six weeks, while Iowa's law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected is tied up in a court battle.
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Wade in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions in this country.
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But doctors who perform abortions rarely have occasion to admit a patient.
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He also suggested that punishment should be applied to doctors performing abortions.
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The Alabama measure virtually bans abortions, even cases of rape and incest.
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Remember that there's a lot of misinformation on the internet about abortions.
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One section of the pamphlet says breast cancer and abortions are linked.
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Matt Bevin this year put tighter restrictions on abortions in the state.
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Like you said, she observed unsafe abortions — but she also opposed abortion.
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Trump was probably trying to criticize abortions initiated after the first trimester.
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Another 956 participants received abortions in the first trimester of their pregnancies.
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It would also ban federal facilities and federal employees from providing abortions.
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Abortions are legal in Canada and available at hospitals and private clinics.
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An estimated 35,000 clandestine abortions take place in El Salvador every year.
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It reached its peak of more than 1.6 million abortions in 1990.
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The new law punishes doctors who perform abortions with life in prison.
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But are women risking their health performing DIY abortions at home alone?
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A ban on elective abortions after 20 weeks will protect unborn children.
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Beatriz's two abortions came at very different times in Venezuela's recent history.
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John Milkovich, outlaws nearly all abortions before many women know they're pregnant.
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Many supporters are Christians and say they believe God forbids most abortions.
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By law, hospitals are obligated to report suspected abortions to the authorities.
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Gary Herbert signed a bill in March banning abortions after 18 weeks.
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Sessions, meanwhile, led a fight to block undocumented women from getting abortions.
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She had bottles thrown at her while escorting women for their abortions.
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So it's kind of a backdoor way to prevent abortions from happening.
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Planned Parenthood draws the ire of many Republicans because it provides abortions.
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Tennessee has passed a bill that would ban abortions if Roe v.
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Louisiana passed a bill banning abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected.
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Abortions and abortion counseling services were also removed from VA benefits. Sen.
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Doctors who perform abortions could face up to 99 years in prison.
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Would removing some of those barriers mean fewer abortions later in pregnancy?
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Advancing reproductive health care rights like access to abortions and birth control.
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According to The Hill, this procedure constitutes 95% of second-trimester abortions.
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Americans are for leaving federal protections governing abortions in place, in general.
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Early abortions start around $500 and get more expensive as pregnancy progresses.
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" Then again, he's also said women who get abortions should be "punished.
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In 2015, Profamilia performed around 7,000 abortions, while Orientame tallied nearly 8,900.
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Videos of abortions are allowed, as long as there is no nudity.
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The only exception: abortions performed to save the life of the mother.
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Additionally, doctors performing abortions needed to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
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"Legal medical abortions can be done up to 24 weeks," he added.
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Horvath-Cosper also points out that abortions later in pregnancy are rare.
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There's no data available on abortions among Americans of Middle Eastern descent.
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On Wednesday, Alabama banned abortions at any time, with the same exception.
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Dirty Dancing depicted the consequences of not having access to safe abortions.
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Word that Booth could help women obtain safe, illegal abortions spread quickly.
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Anti-abortion activists say funding for other purposes acts to subsidize abortions.
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Watch our new film 'Year of Mercy: Backstreet Abortions in The Philippines'
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The facts are that 98.6 percent of abortions happen before 21 weeks.
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They will have to return the next day to have their abortions.
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If men needed abortions, you could probably get one at an ATM.
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Just under 1,000 legal abortions were carried out in Poland in 2014.
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If abortions are legal, they should be legal (and accessible) to all.
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Now we advocate abortions and birth control for minors without parental consent.
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The Georgia law also states that doctors performing abortions will be prosecuted.
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As Talking Points Memo notes, she also believes birth control causes abortions.
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Some women who get abortions can be taught that they are wrong.
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Overall, they had data on more than 50,000 medical and surgical abortions.
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These people were heartless and felt nothing for the women getting abortions.
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Planned Parenthood says abortions make up just three percent of its work.
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There are only about half as many abortions as 30 years ago.
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Another would require physicians to report information about minors who obtain abortions.
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Everyone believed minors should be allowed to have abortions without parental permission.
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Last week, Donald Trump said women should be punished for getting abortions.
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Trump calls on Congress to ban late-term abortions 10:10 p.m.
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New York lawmakers last month passed legislation expanding women's access to abortions.
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He later backtracked, saying that doctors who perform abortions should be punished.
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Kevin D. Williamson once recommended that women who get abortions be hanged.
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The government has also shut down over abortions and an aircraft carrier.
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New York lawmakers last month passed legislation expanding women's access to abortions.
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"There will be nobody -- no clinics, no doctors, nobody to do abortions."
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And he's taking it for granted that women seeking abortions deserve it.
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Argentina's Supreme Court decriminalized abortions in cases of rape six years ago.
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He voted against imposing penalties for abortions after 230 weeks of pregnancy.
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The department cited patient safety concerns, including failed abortions, as its reasoning.
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It is already illegal to use federal funds to pay for abortions.
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Alabama, where only doctors can be prosecuted for providing abortions, in Northern
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In regard to late-term abortions, Biden has consistently been against it.
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The bill would outlaw abortions as early as six weeks after conception.
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They must pay for the abortions, as well as for travel costs.
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Prior to Roe, however, abortions were a significant contributor to maternal mortality.
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It also requires that physicians who perform abortions retain hospital admitting privileges.
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Many women turn to illegal abortions or go abroad, often to Germany.
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Women looking for abortions and those helping them could go to jail.
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State law allows abortions until viability, which is normally at 22 weeks.
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As it stands, New York bans abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
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When TEA Fund was founded 64 abortions providers existed throughout the state.
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When we make the decision to have abortions, we've suffered enough already.
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Last week, House Republicans passed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.
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Per every 100,000 abortions, 0.6 women died, according to the same study.
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They don't just do abortions — which is what people usually think of.
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Women who have abortions can walk into the procedure room, talking, normal.
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Outlawing D&E, abortion rights groups argue, effectively criminalizes second-trimester abortions.
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No official record exists of how many women back then sought abortions.
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Planned Parenthood says it does not use any government money for abortions.
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Before the law, 22 percent of abortions in Ohio were by medication.
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She voted to defund Planned Parenthood and ban abortions after 20 weeks.
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Opponents of the law predicted a chilling effect on access to abortions.
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This has the unintended consequence of dramatically increasing the number of abortions.
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She's not convinced that it should all go directly towards funding abortions.
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You're going to have ... a lot of illegal abortions resulting in death.
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It performs abortions at three of its 27 clinics in the state.
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Making abortions illegal and incarcerating women and doctors will be hugely unpopular.
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Otherwise, abortions must take place during the first six months of pregnancy.
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Kay Ivey, a Republican, and bans abortions at every stage of pregnancy.
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Funding abortions, birth control, groceries — this could be done from her home.
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By 2014, it accounted for 45 percent of abortions before nine weeks.
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The regulations also ensure coverage for medically necessary abortions with no copays.
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As with surgical abortions, when abortion laws are restrictive, women turn underground.
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In most cases, Medicaid will not pay for abortions in the clinics.
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Only abortions that are associated with complications could potentially impact future fertility.
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Some women remember their abortions as a defining act of self-determination.
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The bill expands funding for abortions under state insurance plans, including Medicaid.
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Abortions happen around the world, no matter the local laws or customs.
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Infants can and do survive abortions; this is not a hypothetical problem.
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The Bevin administration promptly sued, claiming the center was performing abortions illegally.
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These policies include efforts to eliminate federal funding to groups providing abortions.
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Fact No. 2: About 99% of abortions take place before 21 weeks.
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If I thought I was killing a person, I wouldn't do abortions.
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Hope does abortions for patients who are up to 16.5 weeks pregnant.
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States have since passed a wave of bills restricting access to abortions.
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Demand for reversals doesn't mean women really don't want to have abortions.
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At his family medicine and urgent care practice, he also provides abortions.
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Indiana, for example, reports how many residents in each county had abortions.
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The procedure accounts for 16 percent of all abortions performed in Kentucky.
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Hellerstedt because the law imposed an undue burden on those seeking abortions.
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The center also provides abortions, but Title X has never covered them.
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John Kasich added "of course women shouldn't be punished" for having abortions.
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Many other states have also sought recently to ban pre-viability abortions.
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As a result, unintended pregnancies will rise, and with it, unsafe abortions.
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In fact, like many family planning clinics, PHS doesn't even provide abortions.
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CNN: How common or uncommon are abortions at this stage of pregnancy?
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The group — which does not use its federal funds for abortions — refused.
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She'd unknowingly walked into a faith-based clinic that didn't offer abortions.
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"American taxpayer dollars will not be used to underwrite abortions," Pompeo said.
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Title X facilities will also be barred from referring patients for abortions.
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"He's the doctor who does only medical abortions, not surgical," she said.
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They're also counting on this legislation to exacerbate tensions around "justified" abortions.
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Certain clinics report that they have quietly performed abortions, particularly for girls.
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MacLauchlan said abortions might be provided by the end of the year.
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Under the bill, schools must be able to offer abortions by 2022.
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The country is one of 26 nations that have totally banned abortions.
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ORR's efforts to block abortions for minors are "absolutely unconstitutional," Amiri says.
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Meanwhile, Donald Trump has said women should be punished for having abortions.
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Previously, most abortions after 24 weeks had been banned in New York.
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Doctors who perform abortions, particularly in rural areas, may travel among facilities, rather than have a full-time position at one clinic, said Dr. Ingrid P. Skop, an obstetrician-gynecologist in San Antonio, who does not perform abortions.
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According to official statistics, more than 13 million abortions are performed in China every year, a figure experts say is a vast underestimation, as it does not include non-surgical abortions or those carried out in unlicensed clinics.
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The number of women who underwent legal abortions in Northern Ireland dwindled to just 12 in 2017/18, but about 850 women traveled to England to obtain abortions and hundreds more bought abortion pills online, the committee heard.
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Those measures include laws seeking to ban abortions early into a pregnancy -- as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected -- and a particularly controversial law in Alabama that would punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison.
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Over time, the term "self-managed abortion" arose to describe the abortions that occur outside a clinical setting, explained Yamani Hernandez, executive director of the National Network of Abortion Funds, a group that helps patients pay for abortions.
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The Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic doesn't perform abortions after 21 weeks from the patient's last period, and next month a new state law is scheduled to go into effect that would ban abortions after 18 weeks.
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"I knew how isolated she was," said Gaffin, who had two abortions while growing up in West Virginia and now codirects Holler Health Justice, a reproductive rights nonprofit that provides financial and emotional support to those seeking abortions.
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Current law does not allow federal funds to pay for abortions, but anti–abortion rights advocates have pushed for the ban to be broadened to reject public funds paying for any services from facilities that also provide abortions.
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About 10,000 women a year seek abortions in the state, and the challengers had shown that if the law were to go into effect, only one physician would be able to provide abortions in the state, he said.
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Iowa Governor Terry Branstad signed legislation today that bans abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy, but Iowa's Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction against part of the bill that adds a 72-hour waiting period for abortions.
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The political potency of late-term abortions was evident in the 1990s when conservatives coined the term "partial birth abortions" to describe a rare type of late-term abortion, and some Democrats voted with Republicans to ban them.
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In addition to removing mifepristone from REMS and allowing nurse practitioners and other APCs to provide early abortions, she adds that professional organizations should offer continuing education training for physicians and APCs to learn how to perform abortions.
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About 10,000 women a year seek abortions in the state and the challengers had shown that if the law were to go into effect, only one physician would be able to provide abortions in the state, he said.
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Under rules proposed earlier this year by the Trump administration, providers who refer patients for abortions would no longer be eligible for funding, and they must maintain "a clear physical and financial separation" between abortions and other services.
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The Republican-controlled Ohio House of Representatives last week approved a measure that would ban abortions at six weeks, while an Iowa law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected is tied up in a court battle.
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About 53,000 women a year seek abortions in the state and the challengers had shown that if the law were to go into effect, only one physician would be able to provide abortions in the state, he said.
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The Turnaway Study accounted for mental health history and focused on women who were close to or beyond the limit of when a clinic would perform abortions, so researchers could compare women who wanted abortions at the outset.
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Since the ruling, perhaps 50 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States, although later court decisions and new state and federal laws have imposed restrictions, and abortions have declined with the wide use of contraceptives.
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In some states, medical abortions are already surpassing surgery: Fifty-five percent of women chose medical abortions in Michigan, and 28503 percent of women chose the medication in Iowa, according to recent data from state officials and clinics.
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In May, the Trump administration proposed a nationwide gag rule that would cut off funding from the Title X family planning program to Planned Parenthood and other centers unless they stop providing abortions or referring people for abortions.
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While a Virginia bill to loosen restrictions on third-trimester abortions was tabled after it became embroiled in controversy, New York in January passed the Reproductive Health Act, which allows abortions after 24 weeks if the fetus is not viable or there is a risk to the pregnant patient's health, among other provisions (previously, most abortions after 24 weeks were banned in the state).
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The spreadsheet in Missouri was used to determine that four patients had had "failed abortions" that weren't properly reported to the state, an infraction the state could try to use to deny the clinic its license to perform abortions.
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In other cases involving pregnant, undocumented teens seeking abortions in recent months, the Justice Department has attempted to appeal such orders, but the young women at issue so far have either been released from US custody or obtained abortions.
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Aside from Alabama's law, which would allow abortions only in cases when a pregnancy poses a "serious health risk" to the mother, five states have passed bans of their own that would outlaw abortions at eight weeks or earlier.
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The Roman Catholic Church [was concerned that] if Roe were reversed, the RFRA could be used by women who wanted to obtain abortions; [those women might say] that they deserved a religious freedom exemption from laws that prohibited abortions.
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Besides the ban on abortions beyond 18 weeks of pregnancy, roughly the middle of the second trimester, the restrictions require that only Arkansas-licensed physicians who are board-certified or board eligible in obstetrics and gynecology may perform abortions.
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Despite evidence that advance practice clinicians (APCs) like certified nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants can safely provide abortions, 42 states mandate that only physicians can perform procedural abortions, and 34 allow physicians only to administer medication abortion.
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Counting unsafe abortions The study, conducted by an international team of researchers at WHO and Guttmacher Institute, involved 150 pieces of data from 61 countries on both safe and unsafe abortions performed around the world between 2010 and 20153.
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The rules announced by the Trump administration on Friday would cut off federal family planning funds under the Title X program from clinics that provide abortions or that refer patients for abortions, a way of partially defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Prior to the recent abortion laws approved in New York state and the hotly contested proposed bill on third trimester abortions in Virginia, many in the anti-abortion movement incorrectly thought "on-demand" abortions were already available to women.
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In December, Ohio approved a measure banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but the state governor vetoed a measure banning abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat, which could be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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"All of these regulations have only one purpose, which is to shut down the ability of health centers to provide safe, legal abortions, which is not going to stop abortion, but it will stop safe, legal abortions," Wen added.
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Sweeping restrictions on Texas abortions focus on regulating the fetus Sweeping restrictions on Texas abortions focus on regulating the fetus Texas lawmakers tried a new tactic when they advanced sweeping restrictions on abortion last week: Focus on the fetus.
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Doctors should be legally obligated to tell patients nonsurgical abortions can be reversed While Yoest was at the helm, Americans United for Life developed model legislation requiring doctors to inform women that they could "reverse" abortions done non-surgically.
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The ORR did not have any formal written policies in place for blocking the minors from getting abortions, but staff were notified that all abortions required his approval unless the minor's life was in danger, according to his deposition.
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Justice Stephen Breyer pointed out that Texas had reported few complications from abortions before the law was passed and asked whether there would be "more women or fewer women who die because of complications from abortions" after these restrictions.
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The rules announced by the Trump administration on Friday would cut off federal family planning funds under the Title X program from clinics that provide abortions or that refer patients for abortions, a way of partially defunding Planned Parenthood.
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House Bill 481, called Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, would prohibit abortions after that point, which would dramatically restrict abortions in Georgia, where women are now allowed to undergo the procedure up to their 20th week of pregnancy.
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In 2014, there were an estimated 926,200 abortions — a rate of 14.6 per 473,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44) — compared with 22014 million abortions in 224, the year of the last Guttmacher report, or 22011 per 244,2000.
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Lie #22019: Later-term abortions are an insignificant number and are necessary for health reasons Fact: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2012 that 1.3 percent of abortions were committed at 21 weeks' gestation and later.
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Opponents say it would require women seeking abortions to undergo medically unnecessary and untested procedures — and note that using the chemicals in question would violate another Texas law, which prohibits the off-label use of drugs to induce abortions.
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Though much conversation recently has focused on abortions that happen later in pregnancy ("late-term abortion" is not a medically accurate phrase), more than 90 percent of abortions happen within the first trimester, or about the first three months.
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But, Cancela said, outdated criminal penalties for some abortions remained on the books.
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Women's rights activists in Latin America who help women find abortions use Signal.
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Tapper pressed Ryan, noting that existing law blocks taxpayer dollars from funding abortions.
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Rather, women who are denied abortions are more likely to suffer psychological problems.
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This year, the Legislature added additional restrictions for access to abortions for minors.
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Less than one-half of 1 percent of our services are for abortions.
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One woman was too far along, but we provided two abortions that day.
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The dollars at stake for these centres do not go towards funding abortions.
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Critics of the law say it could end medication abortions in the state.
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His universal health care plan, BetterCare, would cover reproductive health care, including abortions.
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He knows of four medical professionals who have been jailed for performing abortions.
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However, Roe and Poe still won't be allowed to immediately get their abortions.
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Only 1.4% of abortions take place during or after 21 weeks of pregnancy.
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Planned Parenthood says only about 203% of the services it provides are abortions.
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They also can't be used for abortions in health insurance for federal employees.
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MYTH: People wouldn't need abortions if they were more responsible FACT: Abstinence works.
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Hearn outlined further points of comparison to illustrate the safety of these abortions.
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It prohibits dismemberment abortion, the most common procedure used in second-trimester abortions.
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To truly care about maternal health, he says, means caring about safe abortions.
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Most of the remains were from abortions Klopfer performed in the early 2000s.
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These could include defunding Planned Parenthood, the biggest provider of abortions in America.
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Some states even require women to disclose how they're paying for their abortions.
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But many women who get abortions are too poor to afford private insurance.
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Georgia's Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act permits later abortions in medical emergencies.
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Women from Ireland, Poland and Malta can easily get abortions elsewhere in Europe.
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An estimated 1.3 percent of abortions happen later than 21 weeks into pregnancy.
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Ohio already has a law barring the use of state funding for abortions.
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Abortions and same-sex marriages are legal in Northern Ireland as of Tuesday.
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Three states have bans on third-trimester abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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The restriction could prohibit abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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Organizations have to provide abortions at their own facilities in order to qualify.
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It's Complicated "You're Not Alone": Why Women Are Speaking Out About Their Abortions
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Illegal abortions are, on average, performed at some point in the second trimester.
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One gave her misoprostol, a stomach-ulcer drug often used to induce abortions.
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The overwhelming majority of these abortions were illegal and performed in unsafe conditions.
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Especially when they're induced by medication, abortions are medically similar to a miscarriage.
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This decline in abortions is happening amid other positive trends in reproductive health.
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Legal limitations like extended waiting periods have been placed on medication-based abortions.
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Abortions stemming from unintended pregnancies remained stable at about 40 to 42 percent.
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Do infants survive abortions, and what would happen medically if that did occur?
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This year Alabama, Ohio and Georgia passed laws to restrict access to abortions.
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But nobody actually things Planned Parenthood is going to stop with their abortions.
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Missouri does seem to be exceptionally keen on stopping women from having abortions.
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But Roe's protection of early, first-trimester abortions has never been in doubt.
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Mr O'Rourke is a pro-immigrant progressive who supports legal abortions, for instance.
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He's previously told ThinkProgress he supports using federal dollars to pay for abortions.
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Rights groups have long said forced abortions and sterilizations were a regular occurrence.
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Later abortions are a bit riskier, but still not as risky as childbirth.
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Mike Parson signed a bill into a law banning abortions at eight weeks.
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The case came about because of a Texas law that prohibited most abortions.
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Oklahoma's existing restrictions on abortion bar non-physician care providers from performing abortions.
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Wade, thousands of American women were dying a year due to illegal abortions.
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Anti-abortion groups were worried this money would be used to fund abortions.
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Abortions increase right along with maternal mortality rates as has occurred in Texas.
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Wade ruling but U.S. law prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions.
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The law could also encourage extra scrutiny of Asian-American women seeking abortions.
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" He says he'd limit abortions as president, calling it a "human rights issue.
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Of course, the need for abortions sometimes comes out of shoddy contraceptive options.
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Sixty-two of Americans oppose forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for abortions.
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And if hospitals do elective abortions, they risk losing public and private funding.
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Wade, women have been entitled to abortions under the law in this country.
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The state has been one of the leaders in adding restrictions to abortions.
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As research shows, making abortion illegal does not stop women from getting abortions.
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She's previously told ThinkProgress she supports using federal dollars to pay for abortions.
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Under the bill, doctors who perform abortions would risk losing their medical licenses.
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I have even practiced in states with no gestational age limit for abortions.
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Bans on abortions after 20 weeks were struck down in Arizona and Idaho.
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It also prohibits certain types of abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy.
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Approximately 0.05 percent of first-trimester abortions have complications that require hospital care.
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Barr offered standard Republican views on issues including abortions, guns, and voting rights.
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Many conservatives oppose providing federal funding for Planned Parenthood because it provides abortions.
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But, she noted, the majority of women who get abortions already have children.
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This matters: 50m of the 56m abortions every year are in developing countries.
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Wade, the historic ruling that assured all women access to safe, legal abortions.
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Why this matters: Public funding of abortions used to be a taboo topic.
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Illegal abortions, whether self-induced or performed by untrained providers, were inherently dangerous.
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Some women have sought illegal abortions before knowing whether their babies had microcephaly.
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Abortions performed by trained providers through evidence-based approaches are safe, she said.
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Yet in South-Central Asia, less than one in two abortions were safe.
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Current law in Iowa prohibits abortions after the end of the second trimester.
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More than 91% of abortions happened at 13 weeks or less of gestation.
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Around 350,000 women travelled to New York for abortions between 1970 and 503.
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Some states, however, permit later abortions when necessary to preserve a woman's life.
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"Everyone had a very rational, practical attitude towards abortions," my grandmother told me.
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Kasich said on Sunday that women who undergo abortions should not be punished.
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Ten states ban abortions conducted solely because of the gender of the fetus.
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The truth is most state laws restrict abortions after 20 weeks of gestation.
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We are tagged as the party of "fourth-trimester abortions," and that's wrong.
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Medicaid, no longer reimbursed abortions and she didn't have the money to pay
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Voters rejected Oregon's Measure 24, which would have ended state funding for abortions.
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Casey, that a state cannot place an "undue burden" on women seeking abortions.
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Rajneesh forced his women followers into abortions and sterilizations (he didn't countenance childbearing).
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Some women have called in to ask about inducing abortions with cleaning products.
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The new law also allows physician assistants to perform some types of abortions.
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In the states that have equal rights amendments, none require abortions on demand.
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The House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks.
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Rick Perry signed the bill into law, Texas had 203 facilities providing abortions.
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There had been much confusion and uncertainty among women seeking abortions in Texas.
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Several thousand Irish women travel each year to get abortions in neighboring Britain.
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Medical abortions are typically viable options until the 10-week mark during pregnancy.
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The law also mandates that physicians conducting abortions have admitting privileges to hospitals.
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Abortion proponents used to claim that abortions should be safe, legal, and rare.
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He's also known for blocking pregnant minors in ORR custody from getting abortions.
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Wade doesn't need to be overturned to eliminate legal abortions in the country.
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Supporters of abortion reform say even those legal abortions are difficult to obtain.
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Argentina's Supreme Court only decriminalized abortions in cases of rape six years ago.
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Hospitals often had whole septic wards for women with infections from unsafe abortions.
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More than 22,000 women die every year from unsafe abortions, particularly poor women.
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As of 2628, 28500 percent of abortions were conducted for low-income women.
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Physicians who offer abortions have been politicized by lawmakers and anti-choice radicals.
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Brian Kemp (R) on Tuesday signed "fetal heartbeat" legislation to ban most abortions.
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The bill would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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A sweeping abortions-rights bill is set to become law under Vermont Gov.
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This would protect doctors or medical professionals who perform abortions from criminal prosecution.
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The bill would have allowed abortions during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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But in other states, many women were forced to seek unsafe, illegal abortions.
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Because according to the CDC, 95% of second-trimester abortions use D&E.
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Bevin decided that because we did abortions we would need an abortion license.
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Let's be clear: the recent abortion bans will not stop abortions from happening.
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In addition, the bill would ban abortions because of race, gender or ancestry.
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Federal law already prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions.
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Next, Warren said Congress should require that all health care insurance cover abortions.
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Women who choose to have abortions have their own personal stories and reasons.
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About 16 percent of Kentucky abortions are performed using the procedure, Reuters reported.
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We're not taught to expect that abortions can be anything less than traumatic.
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That money, Missouri's legislature made clear, cannot go to organizations that provide abortions.
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The vast majority of people actually who have abortions, already have a child.
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We need to bust the myths around what kind of people have abortions.
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Because women will have children, we will have miscarriages, we will have abortions.
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Last week he introduced a Senate bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks.
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I'm opposed to late-term abortions and think they should be severely restricted.
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She also ordered Trump officials to stop blocking undocumented minors from getting abortions.
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Abortions were likely to be safer in countries that had largely legalized abortion.
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As governor, I will work in good faith to reduce abortions by 1.
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One of our talking points is that late-term abortions are extremely rare.
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According to Abril's research, "47,000 women die due to botched abortions" each year.
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"Understand this, women of means will still have access to abortions," Warren said.
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During the presidential campaign, Trump said women should be punished for having abortions.
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At the time, women didn't talk about their abortions, certainly not in public.
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To the Editor: Like many people, I am not in favor of abortions.
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Would abortions be allowed based on mere allegations of rape without any proof?
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Kay Ivey of Alabama signed a law outlawing abortions in almost all cases.
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Abortion rights groups want to make it easy for women to access abortions.
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Though the clinic will keep providing abortions for now, its battle will continue.
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Its license to provide abortions was set to expire after within a week.
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But women seeking abortions still face major roadblocks in the strongly Catholic country.
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Medication abortions will not solve all the problems of a post-Roe world.
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They said the law had forced abortions underground, exposing women to medical accidents.
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Only one abortion clinic, in Little Rock, can still able to offer abortions.
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