This ruling is a critical step toward ensuring that women and doctors -- not politicians -- can make private, personal health care decisions, |
This unconstitutional law denies women, in consultation with their doctors and families, the right to make decisions about their own health, |
To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of coercion. |
Today's ruling is a landmark victory for medical privacy rights and women's health, |
We have a moral obligation to the women of America. Make no mistake about it -- there is a war on choice, and it is a war we must win and we can win. |
We have found that for some women they just regard this as an excellent option, and this is what they would choose and what they would recommend to others. For other women, it's not. |
When I started out 30 years ago, there was plenty of money for counselors as well as medical care providers. Counselors are very experienced and expensive. My observation is that that's where a lot of the cuts have been made. For patients who have other kinds of emotional problems, there's less counseling staff to spend extensive time. |
When these voters are introduced to Gov. George W. Bush's positions on family planning and abortion, they move solidly against him, ... George Bush sees compassionate conservatives as his strength. We believe they are his Achilles' heel. |