The Trump Administration just asked the Supreme Court to gut all of the Affordable Care Act and its protections for those with preexisting conditions. They want to take insurance away from you by crushing the landmark health care law that enabled millions of Americans to get insurance coverage.
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, released new federal regulations that no longer require coaches to report sexual misconduct. Just what college campuses need, less reporting of sexual assault (SARCASM).
Our Budget Cuts Series is unfortunately back for a fourth year and there's too much to cover from the disgusting fiscal year 2021 budget that Trump's cronies unveiled in mid-February 2020. This is part two in an series with an unknown amount of parts.
In this post, Trump wants to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and children's health insurance - all while keeping tax breaks for the rich.
The White House on Monday proposed a $4.8 trillion election-year budget that would slash major domestic and safety net programs....
Anti-choice politicians don’t care about respecting the Supreme Court’s precedent. All they care about is fulfilling their extremist political agenda. Shame on those involved.
If you are a person who wants to keep their right to choose what to do with your own body, this is a loud reminder why everyone must vote in the upcoming elections.
The Supreme Court refused to review a Kentucky law that compels abortion providers to insert a transvaginal probe, describe the fetus, point out its organs, and play the sound of its heartbeat. So the law stands.
Kentucky physicians are now legally obligated to penetrate many women seeking abortions with a transvaginal ultrasound and describe the fetus in extreme detail while playing its heartbeat.
This is how women’s reproductive rights will be whittled away - not in one fell swoop, but little by little and piece by piece.
The Department of Health and Human Services will change the rules to allow recipients of federal grants for healthcare, including faith-based adoption agencies and foster care providers, to turn away same-sex couples. This is an attack on the LGBTQ community.
This term, with Kavanaugh’s vote, the Supreme Court is going to overrule Whole Woman’s Health, gut Roe v. Wade, and allow states to regulate abortion clinics out of existence.
The cruelty is the point.
The Trump administration will withhold funds from the United Nations agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year.... the decision will hurt vulnerable women and children, undermine US interests and is not based on evidence.
Withholding funds for reproductive and maternal health care from UNFPA for a third consecutive year will hurt vulnerable women and children.
Meanwhile as Trump fills the news with none stop corruption and hate, Republican policies are leading to the shuttering of rural hospitals across the United States. And if the Republican lawsuit to kill the ACA succeeds, the wave will become a deadly tsunami.
More than half of all rural hospitals in Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma lost money from 2011 through 2017.
The Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a federal program to prevent teen pregnancy in 2017 was directed by political appointees over the objections of career experts. Three appointees with strict pro-abstinence beliefs — including Valerie Huber, the then-chief of staff for the department's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health — guided the process to end a program many medical professionals credit with helping to bring the nation’s teen