“The political war over reproductive health rights is far from over, but the legal and regulatory battle lines have been drawn, and the stakes could not be higher.”
from the nonprofit, Washington-based Population Institute has given the U.S. an F for the first time in the eight years it has graded the country’s record.
“The political war over reproductive health rights is far from over, but the legal and regulatory battle lines have been drawn, and the stakes could not be higher,” said Robert Walker, president of the institute. Grades measured four aspects of reproductive rights in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including effectiveness—what percentage of pregnancies were unintended, and what was each state’s teenage pregnancy rate?; prevention, which examined sex education in schools, minors’ access to contraceptive services, and whether school nurses were authorized to issue medications; affordability, which looked at state policies meant to make birth control affordable to uninsured and low-income...
The score also reflects the administration’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court as well as its nomination of dozens of conservative judges to lower courts, which the institute said may result in even more restrictions to access to reproductive health care.
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