Trump is advancing a rule that would federally “defund” @plannedparenthood and make it impossible for any clinic that provides or discusses abortion to provide cancer screenings, STI tests, birth control access, & critical reproductive health services for over 4 million low-income people across the country.
Before the Affordable Care Act, birth control made up an estimated 30-44% of all out-of-pocket healthcare spending for women.
The ACA’s birth control benefit has provided more than 62 million women with access to birth control and saved women $1.4 billion in 2013 alone.
Last month, Trump decimated this rule by allowing employers to deny employees access to birth control coverage, for essentially any reason they see fit.
Trump keeps trying – and succeeding – to give anti-choice extremists lifetime appointments to our federal courts. We need unbiased judges, not right-wing extremists handpicked by Trump to undermine women’s basic rights. Amy Coney Barrett’s blatantly anti-choice record makes her unfit to serve.
BREAKING: House GOP just passed a 20-week abortion ban that would throw doctors in JAIL. TAKE ACTION >> http://bit.ly/2xe8rwq
Henry Hyde was furious with the outcome of Roe v. Wade. So in 1976, he created a policy to prevent low-income women from accessing abortion.
We have voted to reauthorize this discriminatory policy every year since.
Of all the critical issues Congress should be addressing, House Republicans are voting tomorrow to ban abortion after 20-weeks.
Good news out of Illinois! Gov. Rauner announced he will sign a bill passed by the Democratic legislature to expand access to abortion care.
Call now and tell your senator to vote NO on the Graham-Cassidy plan, the GOP’s latest dangerous scheme to repeal the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood: ☎️ 1-866-665-4470
We are not saints, we are not whores, we are women.
Heads up: Trump is about to make it easier for your boss to refuse to cover your birth control.
BYP100 is calling for the removal of statues of this gynecologist who would experiment on slaves without anesthesia:
“J. Marion Sims was a gynecologist in the 1800s who purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments,” they wrote. “He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, ‘Black women don’t feel pain.’”
Good news! Oregon just EXPANDED abortion access, taking a firm stand against Trump’s extreme agenda: http://bit.ly/2i79EmD
“The measure, called the Reproductive Health Equity Act, requires health insurers to provide birth control and abortions without charging a co-pay, and also allocates state funds to provide reproductive health care to non-citizens unable to access Medicaid.
The Pro-Choice Coalition of Oregon, which helped write the law, said that the new legislation will not only increase access to abortion, but also birth control and postpartum care for low-income women. It also adds that this is the first legislation in the States to comprehensively address systemic barriers to reproductive health care.
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