Trump for women!

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A couple of stunners here, the first shows the Administration's 'support' for family values..

One of the most heralded aspects of the Affordable Care Act was the fact that it no longer made being a woman a pre-existing condition. Before 2010, women often had to pay more than men for the same coverage. Only 12 percent of individual market plans covered maternity care. And it was completely legal for insurance companies to refuse coverage to women who were pregnant or might become pregnant in the future. 

Obamacare changed that. The law created a list of 10 essential health benefits that all plans on the marketplace must cover. Pregnancy, maternity and newborn care are on that list.  President Donald Trump wants to get rid of that mandatory benefit. On Tuesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer pointed to maternity care as a reason that insurance costs were so high and said it was unfairly burdening men and older people who don’t need such services.

Trump Plan To Eliminate Universal Maternity Coverage Would Put A High Price On Being A Woman | The Huffington Post

An estimated 225 million women in the world who want to avoid pregnancy lack access to safe and reliable contraceptives. But President Donald Trump appointed two delegates to the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this week who believe birth control access is “antithetical to the values and needs of women worldwide.” The State Department announced on Monday that it is sending Lisa Correnti, the executive vice president of the Center for Family and Human Rights, to “the most important annual meeting on women’s issues at the United Nations.”

Trump Sends Anti-Birth Control Delegates To UN Commission On Women | The Huffington Post

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And of course we have this, a reminder that Planned Parenthood is an important healthcare provider for Medicaid so it's curious of the Republicans to complain that so few doctors accept Medicaid patients and then to defund Planned Parenthood (and much of Medicaid).

Needle then went on to ask Price how he expects the millions of women who depend on Planned Parenthood to access the basic health care they need if the health care organization is defunded. Price responded in a way that Republicans often do when asked about Planned Parenthood: He said that Americans don’t want their tax dollars being used to support abortions or abortion clinics, but did not acknowledge that, through the Hyde Amendment, that’s already the case.

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I just want to call back ― this isn’t part of my question ― but I just want to call back because you earlier brought up Medicaid specifically, and complained about how one of the biggest problems under Obamacare was that only a third of doctors were accepting Medicaid. This plan chooses to cut a provider that sees over a million Medicaid patients every year. So, if that is your big problem with Obamacare, then how does that make any sense?

Watch This Woman School Tom Price On His Hypocrisy Around Planned Parenthood | The Huffington Post

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Following the president's tweet, Planned Parenthood provided a statement to Business Insider pushing back on the assertions made by Trump. The statement reads: "It’s crystal clear: They will sacrifice the health of every woman in this country to pass this disastrous bill. This was already the worst bill for women’s health in our lifetime – and it’s getting worse every day.

Yesterday Paul Ryan, Donald Trump, and Republican leadership eliminated maternity care from health coverage. Today, the President is using Planned Parenthood, and the millions of women who depend on us for care, as part of a dangerous political game.

The president knows what it means to take away care at Planned Parenthood. As he himself has said, millions of women depend on us for cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care. You cannot call yourself pro-family and slash maternity care. You cannot claim you want to invest in women’s health and block access to Planned Parenthood and essential women’s health care.

Negotiating away access to cancer screenings, birth control and maternity care is not ‘pro-life,’ it’s cruel. While the President tweets and plays politics, we're busy fighting to save health care that 1 in 5 women rely on."

Trump attacks Freedom Caucus on AHCA - Business Insider

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President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women, did anything wrong. In an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, Trump defended O’Reilly after the Times reported that O’Reilly or Fox News paid five women a total of about $13 million to settle claims of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior over the years. “I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person,” Trump said on Wednesday. “I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally, I think he shouldn’t have settled,” Trump added. “Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.”

Donald Trump Kicks Off Sexual Assault Awareness Month By Defending Bill O'Reilly | The Huffington Post

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Hmm..

That’s because Fox News and its ideology of misogyny are the theory. Bill O’Reilly — and Ailes, and avowed Fox News fan Trump, and all the sexual harassment complaints and suits that have been brought against them — are the practice.

Fox News consistently sends the message that women exist to serve men

Fox News is a company at which female employees were encouraged, during Ailes’s tenure, “to wear your skirts short and your heels high,” and to avoid wearing pants at all, allegedly so that Ailes could ogle their legs more efficiently. (Ailes is said to have once yelled, “Tell Catherine [Crier, a former Fox News host] I did not spend x-number of dollars on a glass desk for her to wear pant suits.”)

Fox News is the network that in 2013 hosted an all-male panel to debate the question of whether it was okay for women to be a family’s primary breadwinner. Their conclusion: No, it was not okay, because men have to have control over women; that’s just science. “When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the rules of a male and a female in society and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female is not competing,” said Erick Erickson, incorrectly.

Fox News is the network that in 2014 endorsed calling “date rape” “mistake sex.” It’s the network that has joked about how female soldiers are “boobs on the ground.” It’s the network that says women are paid less because they’re worth less in the workplace.

How Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment problem fits Fox News's ideology - Vox

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US President Donald Trump has signed a new measure aimed at rolling back federal funding for the US women's health group Planned Parenthood. The legislation removes an Obama-era rule that prohibited states from withholding funding for family planning services that provide abortions. A Republican-led Congress passed the measure last month with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tie-breaking vote. Republicans have long vowed to defund the group over the issue of abortions. Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health organisation, provides birth control, STD testing, cancer screenings, breast examinations and pregnancy terminations.

Trump signs measure targeting Planned Parenthood funding - BBC News

Yes, women don't need all that stuff, right?

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"Jeff Flake, my name is Deja Foxx and I'm a 16-year-old from Tucson," Foxx began. "I just want to state some facts. So, I'm a young woman, and you're a middle-aged man. I'm a person of color, and you're white. I come from a background of poverty, and I didn't always have parents to guide me through life. You come from privilege," she continued, amid shouts of support from the crowd.  "So, I'm wondering, as a Planned Parenthood patient and someone who relies on Title X, who you are clearly not, why it's your right to take away my right to choose Planned Parenthood and to choose no-co-pay birth control, to access that," Foxx said. "So, if you can explain that to me, I would appreciate it."

Teenager rips Republican senator Jeff Flake over Planned Parenthood - Business Insider

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Romney nostalgia setting in for not so surprising reasons..

In light of Trump’s rampant sexism—his comments about Fox News’ Megyn Kelly having “blood coming out of her wherever,” Hillary Clinton being “such a nasty woman,” Carly Fiorina’s face repelling voters, and his grabbing women “by the pussy”—Romney’s plan for hiring more women, albeit awkwardly expressed, seems downright enlightened.

Trump Is Giving Us a Case of Romnesia | New Republic

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President Trump plans to end ‘Let Girls Learn,’ former first lady Michelle Obama’s girls education program, according to a Monday CNN report. "Moving forward, we will not continue to use the Let Girls Learn brand or maintain a stand-alone program,” an email from Peace Corps acting director Sheila Crowley to employees reportedly reads. The Trump administration gave order to cease the program’s operation immediately, according to an internal document obtained by CNN.

CNN: Trump ending Michelle Obama's girls education program | TheHill

Yes, educating girls, terrible idea! Has to be stopped immediately, perhaps we have more in common with the Taliban than first thought..

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The Trump administration said Thursday it would "re-examine" ObamaCare's contraception mandate, which requires insurers to cover birth control with no co-pay.  The statement came after Trump signed a "religious freedom" order Thursday. "We will be taking action in short order to follow the president's instructions to safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance to their employees," Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said in a statement Thursday.

Trump to 're-examine' ObamaCare contraception mandate | TheHill