{"id":4007,"date":"2020-12-13T22:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2020-12-13T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:29:58","slug":"biden-can-do-3-things-on-day-one-to-unwind-trumps-war-on-reproductive-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4007","title":{"rendered":"Biden can do 3 things on day one to unwind Trump\u2019s war on reproductive health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Again and again over the last four years, the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans \u2014 and people abroad \u2014 to get basic reproductive health care<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, the administration reimposed and broadened a rule, sometimes called the Mexico City policy, barring health organizations around the world that get US aid from providing or even discussing abortions. The result<\/a> was a reduction in access to abortion, as well as services like contraception and prenatal care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same year, Trump\u2019s Health and Human Services Department issued rules weakening an Obama-era mandate<\/a> requiring employers to offer insurance that covers birth control, allowing them to claim an exemption if they had a religious or moral objection. Those rules have been tied up by lawsuits, but just won a major victory at the Supreme Court in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in 2019, the Trump administration finalized what reproductive health advocates call a \u201cdomestic gag rule,\u201d<\/a> barring health care providers that get federal family planning funds under the Title X program from performing or referring for abortions. As a result, hundreds of clinics have exited the program, cutting its ability to provide birth control services in half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These actions have had a real and serious impact on patients, only compounded by a pandemic that has made it even harder for many Americans, especially low-income people of color, to access reproductive health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is likely an end in sight for many of the Trump administration\u2019s policies: Since they were enacted by executive action, they can be undone by President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office, without any help from Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden has promised to do exactly that”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/16\/21561232\/biden-birth-control-contraception-health-trump-congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Again and again over the last four years, the Trump administration has made it harder for Americans \u2014 and people abroad \u2014 to get basic reproductive health care.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the administration reimposed and broadened a rule, sometimes called the Mexico City policy, barring health organizations around the world that get US aid from providing or even discussing abortions. The result was a reduction in access to abortion, as well as services like contraception and prenatal care.<\/p>\n

The same year, Trump\u2019s Health and Human Services Department issued rules weakening an Obama-era mandate requiring employers to offer insurance that covers birth control, allowing them to claim an exemption if they had a religious or moral objection. Those rules have been tied up by lawsuits, but just won a major victory at the Supreme Court in July.<\/p>\n

And in 2019, the Trump administration finalized what reproductive health advocates call a \u201cdomestic gag rule,\u201d barring health care providers that get federal family planning funds under the Title X program from performing or referring for abortions. As a result, hundreds of clinics have exited the program, cutting its ability to provide birth control services in half.<\/p>\n

These actions have had a real and serious impact on patients, only compounded by a pandemic that has made it even harder for many Americans, especially low-income people of color, to access reproductive health care.<\/p>\n

But there is likely an end in sight for many of the Trump administration\u2019s policies: Since they were enacted by executive action, they can be undone by President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office, without any help from Congress.<\/p>\n

Biden has promised to do exactly that”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,81],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}