The Tennessee Education Association has endorsed several Republicans, including Rep. Dale Ford, an ALEC member who favors abstinence-only sex education and supported a law that asserts that the Constitution doesn't recognize abortion rights.
In Missouri — which has some of the harshest anti-abortion laws on the books — Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill to recognize abortion "as an essential component of women's healthcare" and that it "shall be made affordable and accessible throughout the state and integrated into the health care safety net".
Not because Reid's ascension announced a change in policy but because it recognized abortion as a deeply personal, fundamentally moral issue about which reasonable people may disagree.
Furthermore, Article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa has significantly augmented the regional trend toward liberalization by recognizing abortion as a human right in given circumstances.
It would also move New York's abortion regulations from the penal code to the health code, recognizing abortion as a public health issue rather than a crime from which the state had carved out exclusions, Ms. Miller said.
But on Wednesday, the State Senate Republican leader suggested that his conference would not support any effort to bring a key part of the act — a state safeguard of federally recognized abortion rights — to a vote.
Long before the Supreme Court recognized abortion rights, on January 22 , 1973— forty years ago this Tuesday — women, many in desperate circumstances, sought out and too often were killed in unsafe, illegal procedures.
But according to a study from the Guttmacher Institute, the number of recognized abortion providers in California decreased by 19percentt from 1996 to 2000, leaving 400 providers to serve 7.5 million women of reproductive age in the state.
"I recognize that abortion, and particularly in the case of rape, is a very emotionally charged issue.
New Yorkers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, recognize that abortion is a necessary part of any comprehensive reproductive health program.
"We can all recognize that abortion in many ways represents a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women," Mrs. Clinton told the annual conference of the Family Planning Advocates of New York State.
