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U.S. Senators Ask Trump To Stop Being Terrible For Women
Source: Huffington Post
POLITICS 05/02/2017 10:29 am ET
U.S. Senators Ask Trump To Stop Being Terrible For Women
Women’s “fears have already become reality,” they wrote.
By Laura Bassett
WASHINGTON ― A hundred days after an unprecedented number of women around the world marched to protest President Donald Trump, 31 U.S. senators penned a letter asking him to cease his “despicable attacks” on women’s health and women’s rights.
“Fears of attacks on women’s health and the fundamental rights so many women value led to this historic march,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote Tuesday in the letter, which was co-signed by 29 other Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “Sadly, just 100 days into your administration, many of those fears have already become reality. We ask that you listen to the millions of people who have urged you to support women’s rights and cease these despicable attacks.”
The senators listed eight major ways Trump’s administration has hurt or tried to hurt women’s health in America and around the globe.
Already, Trump has signed a bill allowing states to withhold Title X federal family planning money from Planned Parenthood, hampering the provider’s ability to administer contraception and other preventative health care to more than a million low-income women. He reinstated the so-called global gag rule, blocking money to international health and family planning organizations that even mention abortion, and defunded the United Nations Population Fund, a group that has helped prevent roughly 10,000 maternal deaths and 100,000 unsafe abortions worldwide.
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U.S. Senators Ask Trump To Stop Being Terrible For Women
Women’s “fears have already become reality,” they wrote.
By Laura Bassett
WASHINGTON ― A hundred days after an unprecedented number of women around the world marched to protest President Donald Trump, 31 U.S. senators penned a letter asking him to cease his “despicable attacks” on women’s health and women’s rights.
“Fears of attacks on women’s health and the fundamental rights so many women value led to this historic march,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) wrote Tuesday in the letter, which was co-signed by 29 other Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). “Sadly, just 100 days into your administration, many of those fears have already become reality. We ask that you listen to the millions of people who have urged you to support women’s rights and cease these despicable attacks.”
The senators listed eight major ways Trump’s administration has hurt or tried to hurt women’s health in America and around the globe.
Already, Trump has signed a bill allowing states to withhold Title X federal family planning money from Planned Parenthood, hampering the provider’s ability to administer contraception and other preventative health care to more than a million low-income women. He reinstated the so-called global gag rule, blocking money to international health and family planning organizations that even mention abortion, and defunded the United Nations Population Fund, a group that has helped prevent roughly 10,000 maternal deaths and 100,000 unsafe abortions worldwide.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senators-letter-trump-womens-health_us_590888d0e4b02655f84090cc
