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The focus of the law was/is transparency. Just last week, a Federal Court judge for the Southern District of New York, Federal Judge William Pauley, blocked New York City from enforcing its new law requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)* to disclose what services they do and do not provide. The bad news is that it can and is happening here in New York. (All of this appears to conflict with existing Supreme Court precedent that prohibits bans on abortion prior to viability, which occurs Â several weeks laterâ€”but with todayâ€™s Supreme Court, who knows.) These 2011 changes have all occurred in just 19 states. New laws in five states seek to ban abortion completely after 20 weeks, and Ohio wants to ban it as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at approximately eight weeks.

The 80 new laws are more than double the record set in 2005 of 34 enacted restrictions, and triple last yearâ€™s number of 23. Of those, 49% (80 new laws!) are targeted at restricting access to abortion.

As recently as 1968, a majority of the Popeâ€™s advisors agreed that there was no pastoral reason to ban Catholics from using contraception.Īccording to a new Guttmacher Report, in the last six monthsâ€”from the beginning of January through the end of Juneâ€”states across the country have enacted a record breaking 162 new laws or changes to current law that impact our reproductive health care and rights.

98% of sexually active Catholic women have used a form of contraception banned by the Catholic Church.

â€œ Sensus fidelium â€”the graced and experience-fed wisdom of the faithful that has always been one of the sources of truth in the Catholic tradition.â€.

These women often cite the need to care for their children as a primary reason for choosing to haveÂ Â an abortion.Ĭatholics support birth control and have abortions.

6 in 10 women having abortions already have one or more.88% of abortions occur in the 1 st 12 weeks.Women in their twenties account for more than half of all.Teen pregnancy accounts for only 2 in 10 of all abortions.In 2008, 1.21 million abortions were performed in US.4 in 10 unintended pregnancies are terminated by abortion.1 in 3 American women will have had an abortion by age 45.There will always be women who need access to abortions.