Recently, a parent in Minnesota filed a lawsuit seeking to block her transgender daughter from receiving further gender-affirming medical service. This is an assault on the rights of trans youth and minors who may need abortion care.
Republicans are pursuing an additional $800,000 in funding, more than doubling the total cost of the anti-choice investigation to $1.59 million. But where will GOP lawmakers find the money?
White feminists need to recognize that we can’t win by leaving our sisters and siblings behind. We must support reproductive justice organizations led by women of color.
Being attentive to the individual patient should not be considered radical, but the fact that it is tells us how far the medical model has strayed from the promotion of human well-being. But thanks to a small group of feminist doulas, the pendulum may finally be swinging toward treatments that accommodate personal preferences, needs, and differences.
If he were to become secretary of health and human services, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) could lead the charge in rolling back the ACA’s birth control benefit, which requires employer-sponsored health insurance plans to cover contraception as preventive care at no cost to the consumer.
"If the Attorney General can subpoena the records of women who have had an abortion, there is nothing to stop him from subpoenaing other medical records. This is incredibly troubling," Jean-Jacques Cabou, an attorney representing Camelback Family Planning, told Rewire.
“They’ve never backed down from an opportunity to deny rights to certain populations,” Heather Busby, executive director of NARAL Pro Choice Texas, said of the state's GOP legislators. “Whether that’s women, that’s immigrants, that’s the LGBT population.”
A patient asked me during her abortion procedure how I felt about the election outcome. The word “sad” just slipped past my lips. We must organize now to fight like hell for the next four years to protect women’s basic rights.
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