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riversedge

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Fri Jun 2, 2017, 07:20 PM Jun 2017

Trump WH: Birth Control Mandate Is Unnecessary Because of Planned Parenthood Which Well Also Defund





Trump WH: Birth Control Mandate Is Unnecessary Because of Planned Parenthood, Which We’ll Also Defund
Got that?


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/trump-wh-birth-control-mandate-is-unnecessary-because-of-planned-parenthood-which-well-also-defund

Hannah Levintova Jun. 1, 2017 5:13 PM

Erik Mcgregor/Zuma

The Trump administration's argument for letting lots of employers opt out of covering birth control is…not exactly bulletproof.

Yesterday, Vox reported that the Trump administration is considering a broad exemption to Obamacare's mandate on contraceptive coverage, according to a leaked draft of the proposed rule. If passed, the rule would allow virtually any employer, not just a religious one, to remove birth control coverage from its insurance plan if contraception violates the organization's religious beliefs or "moral convictions"—a broad and murky standard.

But, in a curious twist, part of the Trump administration's justification for the move hinges on the existence of hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics, many of which the White House is actively trying to close by "defunding" Planned Parenthood.

As the draft text explains, the administration believes the past rationale for Obamacare's contraception mandate is insufficient. The document lists several reasons why this is the case. Here's one of them:

"There are multiple Federal, state, and local programs that provide free or subsidized contraceptives for low-income women, including Medicaid (with a 90% Federal match for family planning services), Title X, health center grants, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. According to the Guttmacher Institute, government-subsidized family planning services are provided at 8,409 health centers overall. Various state programs supplement Federal programs, and 28 states have their own mandates of contraceptive coverage as a matter of state law. For example, the Title X program, administered by the HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA), provides voluntary family planning information and services for clients based on their ability to pay.

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"The availability of such programs to serve the most at-risk women identified by IOM [Institute of Medicine, now known as the National Academy of Medicine] diminishes the Government's interest in applying the Mandate to objecting employers."..................





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Trump WH: Birth Control Mandate Is Unnecessary Because of Planned Parenthood Which Well Also Defund (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2017 OP
If those young women do not get out and vote against rethugs in 2018 kimbutgar Jun 2017 #1
Only when they are completely cut off from resourse, will they even begine riversedge Jun 2017 #2

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
1. If those young women do not get out and vote against rethugs in 2018
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 07:59 PM
Jun 2017

There will be a lot of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, botched abortions, and an increase in STDs.

2018 vote like your life depends on it millennial women!

In 1974 I went to my local planned parenthood got examined, counseled and was given birth control pills and a bag of condoms. It cost me $5. No one protested, no problems and here were are 43 laters it is even harder now. We have really gone backwards as a country in a short period of time sadly.

riversedge

(69,727 posts)
2. Only when they are completely cut off from resourse, will they even begine
Sat Jun 3, 2017, 09:55 AM
Jun 2017

the think about voting (many-not all).

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