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Kobi · 07-26-2012, 02:20 PM

From NARAL today:

Anti-choice House leadership unveiled its FY’13 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.

Under the chairmanship of anti-choice Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), the bill would eliminate programs that help millions of Americans get contraception and other basic health care. How does the bill do it?

This bill includes a long list of anti-choice attacks on women's reproductive health. Taken together, this legislation is highly dangerous to Americans' reproductive health.

* Eliminates Title X Family-Planning Program. Title X (ten) is the nation's cornerstone family-planning program for low-income women. Currently, this program receives $297 million. The House bill recommends zero dollars.

* Attacks Planned Parenthood. This bill tries yet again to disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds. For many women, Title X clinics provide the only basic health care that they receive; if enacted, the provision would devastate the nation's family-planning network and leave many women without access to medical care. Thankfully, such attempts have been resoundingly defeated.

* Cuts Affordable Care Act Funding. This bill forbids any funds in the legislation from being used to implement the Affordable Care Act.

* Funds Failed "Abstinence-Only" Programs. This bill cuts funding for teen-pregnancy-prevention initiatives and redirects those funds into failed "abstinence-only" programs.

* Blocks Access to Critical Health Services. The bill would allow any health plan or employer nationwide to refuse to provide any benefit required under the Affordable Care Act. Among other effects, this provision would essentially gut the administration's contraceptive-coverage policy, similar to the Blunt amendment that failed in the Senate in March.

* Refusal Laws Expanded. The bill includes the bulk of the text of H.R.361, which would have the effect of broadening the organizations that are allowed to refuse abortion care and, specifically, training to include hospitals, HMOs, and insurance companies. This provision also would make permanent the Federal Refusal Clause.

These policies are way out of touch with our nation's values and priorities, and they put women's health in jeopardy.

Time to check in with your rep and let them know how you feel about this.

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Kobi Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Biological female. Lesbian. Relationship Status: Happy Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hanging out in the Atlantic. Posts: 9,234 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,840 Thanked 34,622 Times in 7,640 Posts Rep Power: 21474861	Health-Spending Bill FY13 Continues its War on Women From NARAL today: Anti-choice House leadership unveiled its FY’13 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. Under the chairmanship of anti-choice Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), the bill would eliminate programs that help millions of Americans get contraception and other basic health care. How does the bill do it? This bill includes a long list of anti-choice attacks on women's reproductive health. Taken together, this legislation is highly dangerous to Americans' reproductive health. * Eliminates Title X Family-Planning Program. Title X (ten) is the nation's cornerstone family-planning program for low-income women. Currently, this program receives $297 million. The House bill recommends zero dollars. * Attacks Planned Parenthood. This bill tries yet again to disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving any federal funds. For many women, Title X clinics provide the only basic health care that they receive; if enacted, the provision would devastate the nation's family-planning network and leave many women without access to medical care. Thankfully, such attempts have been resoundingly defeated. * Cuts Affordable Care Act Funding. This bill forbids any funds in the legislation from being used to implement the Affordable Care Act. * Funds Failed "Abstinence-Only" Programs. This bill cuts funding for teen-pregnancy-prevention initiatives and redirects those funds into failed "abstinence-only" programs. * Blocks Access to Critical Health Services. The bill would allow any health plan or employer nationwide to refuse to provide any benefit required under the Affordable Care Act. Among other effects, this provision would essentially gut the administration's contraceptive-coverage policy, similar to the Blunt amendment that failed in the Senate in March. * Refusal Laws Expanded. The bill includes the bulk of the text of H.R.361, which would have the effect of broadening the organizations that are allowed to refuse abortion care and, specifically, training to include hospitals, HMOs, and insurance companies. This provision also would make permanent the Federal Refusal Clause. These policies are way out of touch with our nation's values and priorities, and they put women's health in jeopardy. Time to check in with your rep and let them know how you feel about this. __________________