The ‘War on Women’ Escalates

The war on women continues to make headlines across the country, but the push-back has begun. The Texas legislature recently cut off all Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in the state and the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill requiring a 24-hour wait period before terminating a pregnancy. The Missouri House passed a bill allowing medical professionals to deny services such as abortion, contraception, and sterilization if they have a moral objection.  Despite those setbacks, reproductive health advocates have scored some recent victories. Tennessee has dropped a provision that would have required the disclosure of detailed demographic information about a woman seeking an abortion as well as the name of her doctor; and the Arizona Senate defeated a bill that would have allowed employers to deny insurance coverage to their employees if they had a moral objection. On the federal level, the U.S. Senate earlier defeated the Blunt Amendment by a vote of 51-48.  The Blunt Amendment would have permitted virtually any employer with moral objections to drop contraceptive coverage from their health plan.

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