Female Contraception, Health, and Liberty
Against the backdrop of tax reform, ongoing dialogue around sexual harassment, deepening investigations into the role of Russia in our elections, the crisis in Korea, attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and continued attempts to restrict immigration and remove Dreamers from the USA, President Trump’s assault on women’s reproductive rights may be seen as a minor sideshow. But it isn’t. Indeed, it is an assault on women through an attempt to control fundamental matters that affect their health and the exercise of their liberty. The matter first drew attention during the campaign when he said that, were abortion to be made illegal, women receiving one “should be subject to some form of punishment”. His appointment of Tom Price as the (now departed) Secretary of HHS was the harbinger of the relentless attack, via executive rule and agency regulation, on women’s health rights that has characterized his first ten months in office. We hope with the appointment of Alex Az