These Voices Win this Round
(good for them)
Fuddy Duddy Time: Down in Flames
(And Rightly So)
Heart of this story from The Nation here as well as the failed Senate vote here from FOX:
The GOP, or better, GOPer in general just do not get it when it comes to a woman's decision regarding her own health care:
A key source of federal family planning funding, known as Title X, has seen a 10 percent cut in its budget since fiscal year 2010.
Title X-funded clinics have already shed services for some 667,000 clients — capping a generation of funding declines since the 1980s, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. For more than 4,100 clinics nationwide, these cuts have not only coincided with diminished services but outright closures. Under continual budget strains, about one in three family planning clinics in South Dakota, and one in five Maryland clinics, have vanished.
For that uninsured minimum-wage worker, her local Title X clinic is a fraying lifeline: she relies on it for (1) birth control, (2) health counseling, (3) cervical cancer and (4) HIV screening (Title X funds, along with federal Medicaid, are BY LAW (Hyde amendment) restricted to non-abortion services).
In 2013, according to Guttmacher Institute, “the contraceptive services provided by clinics alone helped women to prevent some 1.4 million unintended pregnancies, thereby helping women avoid 705,000 unplanned births and 485,000 abortions.” Even Republicans should be glad to know that publicly funded family planning prevented 164,000 unplanned preterm or low birth weight births.
No "war" on women, right ... bullshit – it’s real and this GOP in general is in denial ...
P.S. The women of America know, too.
A key source of federal family planning funding, known as Title X, has seen a 10 percent cut in its budget since fiscal year 2010.
Title X-funded clinics have already shed services for some 667,000 clients — capping a generation of funding declines since the 1980s, according to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association. For more than 4,100 clinics nationwide, these cuts have not only coincided with diminished services but outright closures. Under continual budget strains, about one in three family planning clinics in South Dakota, and one in five Maryland clinics, have vanished.
For that uninsured minimum-wage worker, her local Title X clinic is a fraying lifeline: she relies on it for (1) birth control, (2) health counseling, (3) cervical cancer and (4) HIV screening (Title X funds, along with federal Medicaid, are BY LAW (Hyde amendment) restricted to non-abortion services).
In 2013, according to Guttmacher Institute, “the contraceptive services provided by clinics alone helped women to prevent some 1.4 million unintended pregnancies, thereby helping women avoid 705,000 unplanned births and 485,000 abortions.” Even Republicans should be glad to know that publicly funded family planning prevented 164,000 unplanned preterm or low birth weight births.
No "war" on women, right ... bullshit – it’s real and this GOP in general is in denial ...
P.S. The women of America know, too.
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