Handmaid's Tale? Trump Administration Curbs Access To Birth Control

[DonViejo]

Sarah Okeson

October 12, 2018 2:33 am

Trump health officials plan to rewrite guidelines for a federally funded family planning program to make it harder for low-income women to obtain birth control.

The 32-page proposed regulation mentions contraception three times aside from the footnotes and proposes removing the requirement that family planning services be medically approved, saying it could cause confusion.

“Medical doctors and professional organizations can differ on which methods of health care they approve, including different methods of family planning,” said the regulation prepared under abstinence advocate Valerie Huber, now a senior policy adviser at Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services.

“This policy is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale,” said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Trump said at an anti-abortion gala sponsored by Susan B. Anthony List that the new rule would “prohibit Title X funding from going to any clinic that performs abortions.”

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[Freethinker65]

1. Expect chants of "Knock her up. Knock her up." soon at Trump rallies

[greymattermom]

2. When will the MAGA folks get it?

This and his abortion plans will increase the number of brown people, not whites.

[SCantiGOP]

18. And, by forcing poor women to conceive

They will cause more abortions. Complete cognitive dissonance, or just plain ignorance?

[AZ8theist]

19. OBVIOUSLY the latter....

[lark]

20. Not a problem, with Kav they know abortion and birth control will be outlawed shortly.

This will cause more poor brown workers, which is what they want to replace the immigrants that used to do the shit jobs.

[workinclasszero]

24. Yep

People make the mistake of thinking Trump's kangaroo court will just outlaw abortion.

Any and all forms of contraception will also be on the chopping block as well.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. We are living in "Idiocracy" (Trump world) and Handmaids Tale (Pence/McConnell world).

[bdamomma]

4. this will affect

all low income women. This filthy regime is striking back at women. Revengeful POS tRump is. I always think Stephen Miller is behind all of this and tRump is their tool.

[Girard442]

5. When Roe v. Wade goes down...

...the Pro-Lifers will immediately segue to attacking contraception, proving what everybody knew all along: it's not about life; it's about denying agency to women.

[AZ8theist]

21. Exactly...

Griswold v Connecticut

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_griswold.html

[bdamomma]

6. they have been chipping away

at our pro-choices for a while now. Too bad we couldn't get big pharma to take Cialis and Viagra off the shelves.

[Ohiogal]

7. Words can't express

How much I hate these evil assholes!

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. Locking them in a room and making them binge watch 7 seasons of "Call the Midwife"...

probably wouldn't even get through their thick skulls and shriveled black holes where their hearts should be.

[Cerulean Southpaw]

9. I don't understand this part

I'm not defending it - I think I'm confused about what its saying.

"The 32-page proposed regulation mentions contraception three times aside from the footnotes and proposes removing the requirement that family planning services be medically approved, saying it could cause confusion"

Isn't that a good thing?

They shouldn't require to be medically approved to provide family planning service and contraception. That requirement is what the anti-choice side uses to shut down the clinics.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. No, that means that Bristol Palin can set up a clinic, give advice on family planning, and

receive federal funding for her clinic.

[Delmette2.0]

12. +1

[Lonestarblue]

11. Support for anti-abortion Christian crisis pregnancy centers.

I disagree that clinics do not need to be medically approved. Would you go to a dentist who had no training or hire a plumber with no license or background in plumbing? The crisis pregnancy clinics are not medically approved for a reason—they do not provide healthcare. They are an anti-abortion propaganda machine and they should not be allowed to practice medicine. Many of their staff wear white coats to fool women into thinking that they are medically trained and they lie to women, saying that abortions cause cancer and that cite nonexistent studies saying that all women regret having an abortion. They are not trained to identify the signs of future medical problems for pregnant women, such as gestational diabetes, pregnancy-related hypertension, or fetal abnormalities shown through the ultrasound images they may perform but are not trained to read. These clinics need to be identified as what they are—nonmedical facilities created solely to oppose abortion.

[geardaddy]

13. Thank you for this

I was always suspect of those places and wondered if they were actually staffed by trained personnel.

[Cerulean Southpaw]

28. that makes sense

I didn't think about those crisis pregnancy places.

I guess I was just thinking about the laws like in Texas that said the regular family planning clinics had to have an ambulatory surgery center and the doctors there had to be accepted for work at local hospitals, and they were using those laws to make it harder for a lot of regular clinics to operate

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. They're *removing* the medically approved stipulation.

Hellloooooooo, Birthright. 🤬🤮

[pazzyanne]

15. Don't you recognize tRump's new health care plan?

This is it! Ta. Da!!!!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. 🤬🤬🤮🖤

[Hortensis]

16. Low-income parents tend to produce low-income workers.

The religious right is behind this, of course, but so are white nationalism and neo-Hamiltonian plans for class-based society and power and wealth distribution.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. there it is

They want worker drones with no power. Once we are cost competitive with current 3rd world labor, there will be no need to export jobs. Keep us ignorant, disorganized, completely consumed with just surviving, without access to health care, and no regulations to interfere with profiteering. Such a wonderful world the ultra-rich want to design!

[Hortensis]

25. Well, let's at least say that driving out brown-skinned

immigrant labor will mean many of those jobs will be available for less-skilled workers, who will be expected to take them or do without incomes. Of course, many of those jobs are going to disappear. Mowers will drive themselves, etc.

But certainly, people who divide humanity into more and less deserving sorts do think less is only natural and appropriate for many, even themselves btw. One of my discoveries was that the sort of conservatives who are comfortable with tiered societies in which some are kicked down on are also comfortable with an order that requires them to kiss up to upper classes. Just their place in the natural order. The principle that all men are created equal is a liberal thing. The gut reactions that are conservatism don't include it.

As for the notion of a universal basic income to compensate for less work in a world of great wealth and allow people to be consumers in that world, horrors. Billionaires may literally not be able to earn even a tiny fraction of their money, but that doesn't mean others should not be required to work for what they have.

We really have to get them out of government asap. We're running way behind in dealing with these changes, and half of an entire generation is already not just way behind in wealth accumulation where their parents were at the same ages but barely holding on.

[vlyons]

17. "removing the requirement that family planning services be medically approved" - translation

Non-medical, religious organizations can be federally funded to persuade women NOT to use contraception and practice abstinence only instead. Non-medical, religious organizations can tell women all kinds of bullshit and intimidate them with guilt to not have an abortion. Our tax dollars will be hard at work oppressing women and poor families.

[smirkymonkey]

26. What possible sense does this make?

They can't force low-income women to keep children that they can't afford to raise. Who is going to care for them? Are they going to open up orphanages again? Where is the money going to come from to support all of these unwanted children? Or even if the women do keep these babies that they can't afford, they will still need government assistance. Have they thought of that?

Have they thought of the social fallout of this at all? They are so short-sighted and stupid! It is enraging!

[Ohiogal]

27. They will just claim

that the government doesn't have enough money to care for these children. So we'll see lots of sick, starving, children. They won't care because they see being poor as a moral failing, so watching your children starve to death will be fitting punishment for the women who have no money or no husband and didn't keep an aspirin between their knees. They are just that evil and mean. Pro-life, my ass. They are pro-birth only.