Civil Rights
Apr. 22, 2017
Attacks on reproductive health care reach new low
President Trump signed a law this week that permits states to withhold funding from clinics that provide family planning services.
Michele Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor
UC Irvine
Michele is director of the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy and its Reproductive Justice Initiative. She serves on the Executive Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and board of directors of the Orange and San Bernardino Counties Planned Parenthood.
The misguided attacks on reproductive health care rights reached a new low last week. Shrouded in secrecy and kept largely from public view, a divided senate undercut poor women's access to urgent reproductive health care such as contraception, gynecological exams, cervical and breast cancer screenings, and testing for STDS and HIV. In reality, many of these services protect men too, but it is a consistent pattern in this Congress to take direct aim at women's reproductive healthcare and r...
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