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"Title X made sure poor women could have access to health care. The Trump administration has compromised that."
I am consumed with fury after reading this!!!!
This is from the NYT so you may encounter a paywall -- try incognito mode to view, it is worth reading.
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This has been an ominous year for reproductive rights in America, with states including Georgia, Alabama and now Tennessee in a race to the bottom to pass the most extreme anti-abortion law in the nation.
But while those high-profile abortion bans make their way through the courts they were designed to provoke legal challenges that could threaten Roe v. Wade a more immediate threat to womens health care has been brewing. The Trump administration has quietly been working to gut the Title X family planning program, which helps poor women afford birth control, cancer screenings and testing for H.I.V. and other sexually transmitted infections. On Monday, the administrations efforts paid off: Planned Parenthood, which serves about 40 percent of Title X patients around the country, felt forced to withdraw from the program.
The nearly 50-year-old Title X program is an unsung hero of American public health. In 2017, Title X clinics served more than four million women, 42 percent of them uninsured, according to the federal Office of Population Affairs, which administers the program. The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports reproductive rights, found that Title X clinics helped prevent more than 822,000 unintended pregnancies in 2015. The institute estimates that for every dollar the federal government spends on family planning, it saves more than $7.
The Trump administrations new Title X rule, announced in February, will lay waste to that progress. The rule bars facilities that receive Title X money from providing abortions, even with a separate source of money, as has been required by law for decades. It also prohibits clinics from referring patients for an abortion at a different facility in other words, staff members would effectively have to pretend that abortion is not a legal medical option.
And thats exactly the point for this administration: to treat abortion as though it were illegal, until perhaps that wishful thinking becomes reality. A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said last week that by leaving Title X, Planned Parenthood is choosing to place a higher priority on the ability to refer for abortion instead of continuing to receive federal funds to provide a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services. According to the Trump administration, theres abortion, and then theres acceptable care.
At the same time, making it harder for women to get birth control isnt an accidental side effect of this rule change. Current and former members of the administration have expressed opposition to birth control, and one of only three new recipients of Title X grants this year is a Catholic-affiliated group that does not provide contraception beyond guidance on the so-called rhythm method.
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/opinion/planned-parenthood-title-x.html?em_pos=small&ref=headline&nl_art=3&te=1&nl=opinion-today&emc=edit_ty_20190820?campaign_id=39&instance_id=11768&segment_id=16313&user_id=a9aa4f5d6050c1b2fa535a7ed5551a5b®i_id=74838209emc=edit_ty_20190820
Ohiogal
(32,118 posts)"There is also work being done to make it legal to fire a woman who is pregnant and unmarried if her employer claims it goes against "sincere religious beliefs". So, not only will it be ever harder to prevent pregnancy or to abort one, but one can also be fired for being pregnant. (Better not get raped!)
THEN these same women will have difficulty getting assistance and benefits for themselves and eventually their children because of changes to aid programs making her either have to choose abject poverty, or working and possibly loosing benefits. An excellent dis-empowerment campaign indeed."
But Republicans like to say "We put women on a pedestal!" Please, don't make me vomit!
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)we need to start smashing them by their own fucking sick rules..
We need liberal/progressive/Democratic supporting managers, owners, businesses, and corporations to start:
Refusing to hire Christian right wingers that have been divorced and remarried.
Firing Christian right wingers that have been divorced and remarried.
Have some of our Atheist brethren fire/refuse to hire right wing Christians due to their own belief.
Have our LGBT owned/operated bakeries/catering services/hair dressers/ stylists/musicians/artists/photographers refuse to perform services at right wing Christian weddings where either the groom or bride is going on their 2nd marriage.
Give those fuckers a taste of their own bitterness medicine!!!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)The pedestal is high, unstable, and the platform is tiny. One small wrong step and you fall.
librechik
(30,677 posts)librechik
(30,677 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I hate pedestals.
malaise
(269,219 posts)so how can the Con and his goons gut these funds?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Miller, Bannon, Pompeo, Bolton, Ross, Mnuchin..
oh that's enough.
Getting depressed --and I get to rehearse THIS tonight.. (although) not with that orchestra.l LOL)))))
Are you guys in Jamaica familiar with the Huapango---
pretty interesting--
In 2011, Huapango, as a form of Mexican mariachi music, was added to the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity an honor which had also been bestowed upon the healthy Mediterranean diet in 2010 and the Tango in 2009!
plus Capriccio Espagnol, Espana. Congo del Fuego and Brahms 2..
lunatica
(53,410 posts)is called Huapango music.. Thanks!
Im pretty sure Ive heard that piece before. Probably in a movie.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Conservatism is really about controlling minitorian bodies, especially if they're not the minority!
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)It must be ratified between 2020 and 2024. Enough!
Polybius
(15,507 posts)Legal scholars disagree if we'd have to start from scratch again, since Congress put a date on its expiration. It would no doubt go to the SC.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)President or Vice President, it feels as though it should be a priority. The party is finally targeting state houses with more seriousness. I feel that if we must start from scratch, lets do it.
dlk
(11,580 posts)Its abundantly clear, Republicans require a permanent servant class and they have recently escalated their efforts in that direction.
JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)I don't want to sound like too much of an idiot when I discuss it.
barbtries
(28,813 posts)based on hearing Title IX expressed as a number.
Lonestarblue
(10,106 posts)Since the Congress did bot pass a law establishing Christian beliefs as the basis for health funding policies, neither should the president be allowed to do so. The Supreme Court also erred in allowing employers to hide behind religious beliefs in denying birth control to their employees.
When Democrats are in power again, I want them to deregulate the birth control pill and make it available over the counter without a prescription. It is as safe as many drugs that are already available OTC. It would be one small step toward thwarting the religious hypocrites who think their beliefs are the law of the land.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Thank you. Well said.
RobinA
(9,898 posts)(and I can't believe I'm even saying this) that abortion would be better to go back to the states. My state would surely be one to outlaw it at first, but the current situation creates problems for the whole country. Plus, outright ban in some places might be easier to deal with than the countrywide drip, drip, drip of the rights we are losing in dribs and drabs.