“The Republicans, both in the state of Wisconsin and at the national level, are making it a priority to take people’s health care away," state Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) said. "This is just another attempt to infringe on peoples’ health care. And it’s really another attempt to really demean and harass women."
“Congress is playing politics with women’s health and working to undermine access to care,” Sarah Lipton-Lubet, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families, told Rewire.
Republicans in the Colorado legislature pushed a so-called abortion reversal bill, which was dubbed by medical professionals as "quackery" when a similar measure was introduced in Arizona.
Price’s confirmation offers a life-jacket to the so-called fast-track Affordable Care Act repeal process treading water in the Republican-controlled Congress.
Health-care providers in the state say that prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving public funding would put a strain on a health-care system that is already under pressure.
“The global gag rule will cause clinic closures around the world, resulting in more unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion, not less,” Latanya Mapp Frett, executive director of Planned Parenthood Global.
Five Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination to fill the congressional vacancy left by Mike Pompeo, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former GOP representative for the 4th Congressional District. One of them is deeply anti-choice.
With Jeff Sessions confirmed Wednesday as the new U.S. attorney general, there is slim hope that clinics can rely on the Justice Department to enforce policies fighting anti-choice terrorism.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans in Sessions’ confirmation hearings largely dismissed his abysmal record on a broad range of rights—including voting, reproductive, and LGBTQ rights, all of which are intertwined.
