'While both are health-related, masking and banning driving under the influence are matters of public health. Reproductive health, on the other hand, is a (very) personal matter,' writes Marina Gomberg. 'And that distinction is critical.'
Marina Gomberg.I enjoy being engaged and challenged by readers. I mean it. It gives me the chance to re-evaluate my position and seek new information, which is always a win. So, thank you for your emails and tweets after my last column which, asking how I could be a proponent of locally ordered mask mandates, but against a state-by-state approach to abortion freedom.
While both are health-related, masking and banning driving under the influence are matters of public health. Reproductive health, on the other hand, is a personal matter.“Public health is defined as the science of protecting the safety and health of entire communities,” my pal Nicholas Rupp, who is the communications director for the Salt Lake County Health Department, clarified. “But public health is very notably NOT individual medical care.
“If it was about babies, we’d have free lactation consultants, free diapers, free formula. If it was about babies, we’d have free and excellent childcare from newborns on. If it was about babies, we’d have universal preschool and pre-k and guaranteed after school placements.
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