Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.
In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.
“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.
Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.
The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.
PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.
The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.
#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood
The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.
#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/
#Gaza #UN #ReproductiveHealthcare
How many embryo's destroyed ?? Very "Pro Life" of them.
"Israel’s attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza ‘genocidal’: UN probe" [3:08 min]
by Al Jazeera English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXIV0eICqs
Quote by AJE:
"Mar 13, 2025
Israel has carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts have said.
On Thursday, the Geneva-based Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in a new report that Israel “intentionally attacked and destroyed” Gaza’s main fertility centre while simultaneously blocking medicine for pregnancies, deliveries and neonatal care from entering the enclave.
The report found that Israel used sexual, reproductive and gender-based violence as a strategy of war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the Human Rights Council describing the findings as an 'anti-Israel circus."
#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus
Today is #InternationalWomensDay and whilst there is a lot to celebrate, it is the most dark IWD day in my lifetime because:
- In the US, female #ReproductiveHealthcare has largely been stopped.
- In the UK, there is active campaigning to follow the US model and stop abortion.
- In Poland, #abortion is already #illegal - unless you are about to die.
Keep yourself #safe and keep your period data #private because it may save your life one day. 
A woman in South Carolina has an ectopic pregnancy and doctors are refusing to operate because of abortion bans.
It’s not just her ovary being put at risk.
Ectopic pregnancies are life threatening and require immediate surgery.
These “forced birth” policies are anything but pro life. They’re killing people and in many cases taking away their fertility.
This is cruelty. It’s not about life. It’s not about babies. It’s about controlling women. The cruelty is the point.
#EFF to State AGs: Time to Investigate Crisis #Pregnancy Centers
#CPCs (also known as “fake #clinics”) are facilities that are often connected to #religious organizations and have a strong #antiabortion stance. While many offer #pregnancytests, #counseling, and information, as well as limited medical services in some cases, they do not provide #reproductivehealthcare such as #abortion or, in many cases, contraception. Some are licensed #medical clinics; most are not.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-state-ags-time-investigate-crisis-pregnancy-centers
Here's where #voters #supported #reproductive #healthcare, #LGBTQ+ #rights this #election.
On Tuesday, seven #states passed #legislation that #protects #reproductivehealthcare. Three passed laws protecting #samesexmarriage, and several #elected #members of the #LGBTQ+ #community to #PublicOffice.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Progress #DemocraticParty #Allies
About damn time, #TommyTuberville is a #threat to #NationalSecurity.
Sen #Tuberville quietly ended his #blockade on the promotion of a senior #military aide to #Defense Sec #LloydAustin after the #Alabama #Republican, under pressure from colleagues, met privately w/the aide on Tues.
[Tuberville has a history of #AbuseOfPower blocking multiple appointments & military promotions because he didn’t want female service members to be able to receive #ReproductiveHealthcare.]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/25/tuberville-austin-aide-promotion/
for me, probably you as well, a mind shaped by an #elementaryschool #teacher who took us to the #graveyard to do crayon rubbings with large pieces of paper on old #tombstones
those #teachers made us great
and this gives #florida teachers an idea for a field trip, as the #GOP ghouls try to drag us back to that past of suffering by opposing #vaccination and #reproductivehealthcare
wait... literally ghouls? come from the graveyard to recreate their "wonderful" past?
all #conservatives need to visit their local cemetery, and merely note how young the ages on the tombstones skew, the cause of death for those kids, and the cause of death and ages on the #women's tombstones
then lets hear them spread their evil lies to control morons, about #vaccination and #reproductivehealthcare
https://www.yahoo.com/news/emphasize-abstinence-sex-ed-florida-194800565.html
"‘Emphasize #abstinence’ in #sex #education, #Florida tells #schools, skip lessons on #contraception"
So what's going to happen is:
Increases in #STD s
Increases in #teen #pregnancy
Increases in nutty misconceptions and lies about human #sexuality and human #biology
But most tragic of all:
By curtailing #reproductivehealthcare (which is what is decimated when they go after #abortion), the increase in pregnancies will result in teens and young #women dying
Endless headlines and social media chatter about missing cats in Ohio effectively shields #Trump and #Vance from being attacked on #IVF #abortion #contraception #womensrights #reproductivehealthcare etc
Issues they know they are losing on
Topic shift is a strategy. You'd think racist ignorant lying "Haitians are eating cats! WHARGARBL" is so cringe it's even worse for them
But people laugh instead of doing the introspection on serious topics that might move them to vote #Democrat
Very glad to see that @ScottishGreens MSP Gillian Mackay’s Safe Access Zone Act comes into effect on 24 September
This long-awaited legislation will protect people using sexual health services in Scotland (including those seeking abortions) from intimidation by anti-choice protestors
"This new rule actively undermines Congress's clear statutory meaning when #HIPAA was passed, & it reflects the Biden administration's disrespect for the #law," #Texas AG #KenPaxton [& general POS] said.
#HHS …said in a stmnt that the rule "stands on its own - #women should be able to access #legal #ReproductiveHealthcare w/o their #medical records being used to track them or their doctors for liability."
Both rules were issued by the U.S. Department of #Health &Human Services under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 (#HIPAA), the federal #law on patient #privacy. #Texas claims that #HHS went beyond its authority under HIPAA in passing both rules, because the law preserves states' authority to conduct investigations [witch hunts].
The measure came in response to efforts by authorities in some #Republican-led states that ban #abortion, including #Texas, to restrict out-of-state travel for abortion. So far, no #criminal prosecutions or #civil judgments have resulted from those efforts.
Providers & insurers must fully comply w/the new rule by December.
#Texas sued the #Biden admin in an effort to block a new rule that seeks to protect the #privacy of #women living in states that #BanAbortion who travel out of state for the procedure.
In a lawsuit filed on Wed in TX, the state asked a federal judge to strike down the rule, which prohibits #healthcare providers & #insurers from giving state #law enforcement authorities info about #ReproductiveHealthcare that is #legal where it was provided.
#ReproductiveRights #HIPAA
https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-sues-block-biden-rule-protecting-privacy-women-who-get-abortions-2024-09-05/
