War on birth control: Incoming HHS secretary Tom Price can seriously damage contraception access...

[DonViejo]

War on birth control: Incoming HHS secretary Tom Price can seriously damage contraception access, even under Obamacare

Contraception access under Medicaid, Title X and even private insurance plans could all be in danger under Trump

AMANDA MARCOTTE

It remains to be seen whether House Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans will be able to repeal the Affordable Care Act and gut Medicaid and Medicare. But even if congressional Republicans are unable to take a sledgehammer to our current health care system, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, Rep. Tom Price, can do some serious damage to the ability of Americans to get basic medical care.

More specifically, Price could drastically undermine the ability of American women to get preventive reproductive health care, especially contraception.

Price has been quite open about his hostility to contraception. As a member of Congress, he has voted to terminate Title X, a program that subsidizes contraception for low-income women. He voted against a law barring employers from firing women for using contraception. He hates Planned Parenthood and he really hates the federal regulation, under the Affordable Care Act, that requires insurance plans to cover contraception without a copay.

To justify his opposition to insurance coverage for contraception, Price sneeringly told ThinkProgress in 2012, “Bring me one woman who has been left behind” by plans that don’t cover contraception adequately.

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http://www.salon.com/2017/01/19/war-on-birth-control-incoming-hhs-secretary-tom-price-can-seriously-damage-contraception-access-even-under-obamacare/

[randr]

1. Can you imagine the nightmare of black market contraception?

[d_r]

4. I'm trying not to imagine the next stage

[Zoonart]

5. Yes... yes I can.

The real threat to the availability of contraception is from the so called "Religious freedom" laws that are spreading in the states.
These. laws would allow, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. to not provide birth control prescriptions or dispense birth control meds. based on their religious beliefs.

it would also allow discrimination based on sexual identification and possibly skin color, if it could be justified on religious grounds and it possible could happen based on the "sons of HAM" Biblical argument.

A lot of really bad shit coming down.

[bdamomma]

2. they just can't keep their filthy

hands off this. DAMN THESE FUCKING MEN, you don't own women.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. I'm serious. Women should refuse to sleep with men who believe this way.

Trust me. If you happen to get pregnant by one of these assholes you will be facing racing a child all by yourself. And being condemned as a horrible sinner for the rest of your life.

It's that important.