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The history of Trumps disdain for women is well documented, but nowhere is it more evident than in his approach to and attitude about women's health and reproductive rights.
Opinion | The Playboy President and Women’s Health
The lack of a moral compas is simply breathtaking:
It gets worse:
And the hypocrissy is astounding:
And for someone who was concerned about contracting HIV/AIDS......
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[QUOTE]It would have been impossible to treat H.I.V./AIDS in the developing world,” Mr. Evertz said, “if the global gag rule were to be applied to the thousands of organizations with which those of us involved in Pepfar would be working.”
Mr. Trump, however, shows no sign of caring about Pepfar. Indeed, his draft budget would cut the program by more than $1 billion, which experts say could lead to a million deaths. The president appears similarly indifferent to H.I.V./AIDS in the United States. [/QUOTE]
There is much more but you get the idea. Read the whole article for the true flavor of this mans insanity and contempt for women world wide.
Opinion | The Playboy President and Women’s Health
The lack of a moral compas is simply breathtaking:
Donald Trump’s name adorned the first casino in America to have an in-house strip club. He is the first American president to have made a cameo appearance in a soft-core pornography film, and he has called his struggle to avoid sexually transmitted diseases while sleeping around his “personal Vietnam.” When Trump the candidate was asked last year whether any of his paramours had had an abortion, he refused to answer.
This is not a man who shares the longtime Republican goal of rolling back the sexual revolution. Nevertheless, after nearly six months in office, Mr. Trump has already surpassed George W. Bush as the American president most hostile to reproductive rights and measures to promote sexual health. There is a deeply insulting irony in this: American women are being stripped of their sexual and reproductive autonomy not by a moralizing puritan but by an erotically incontinent libertine.
It gets worse:
That assault includes blocking Planned Parenthood from collecting Medicaid reimbursements for a year. This would force the more than half of Planned Parenthood clients who rely on the program to seek care elsewhere, whether or not alternatives exist. (In many places, they don’t.) Medicaid itself, which pays for half of American births, would be severely cut. States would be allowed to let insurers opt out of guaranteeing coverage for maternity care. Tax penalties would restrict individuals and small businesses from buying private insurance plans that cover abortion. And the Senate bill, which would free some insurance plans to charge co-pays for preventive care, would end Obamacare’s guarantee of no-cost birth control.
And the hypocrissy is astounding:
No one thinks that Mr. Trump personally disapproves of Planned Parenthood. During the presidential campaign, he defended the organization, even though he also promised to cut off its federal funding.
“Millions and millions of women — cervical cancer, breast cancer — are helped by Planned Parenthood,” he said at a Republican debate in February. “I would defund it because I’m pro-life, but millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.
That statement, combined with his evident acceptance of non-procreative sex, made it possible to imagine that he might be marginally better on issues of sexual and reproductive health than other Republicans. Instead, his presidency is proving that cynicism and indifference can be as damaging as fanaticism..
And for someone who was concerned about contracting HIV/AIDS......
The first sign of how bad Mr. Trump would be on reproductive health came three days after he was sworn in, when he signed a new, souped-up version of the global gag rule. It was inevitable that a Republican president would reinstate this policy, first enacted by Ronald Reagan, prohibiting foreign aid organizations receiving family planning funding from making abortion referrals or lobbying for abortion law reform.
Mr. Trump, however, dramatically expanded the gag rule’s scope, so that it now applies to all foreign health assistance programs — affecting more than $8.8 billion in funding, instead of just $600 million. As Scott Evertz, Mr. Bush’s former AIDS czar, told me in January, Mr. Bush didn’t do that because he knew it would hamstring Pepfar, the president’s signature H.I.V./AIDS initiative.
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[QUOTE]It would have been impossible to treat H.I.V./AIDS in the developing world,” Mr. Evertz said, “if the global gag rule were to be applied to the thousands of organizations with which those of us involved in Pepfar would be working.”
Mr. Trump, however, shows no sign of caring about Pepfar. Indeed, his draft budget would cut the program by more than $1 billion, which experts say could lead to a million deaths. The president appears similarly indifferent to H.I.V./AIDS in the United States. [/QUOTE]
There is much more but you get the idea. Read the whole article for the true flavor of this mans insanity and contempt for women world wide.