May 23, 2025
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#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown
After a rapid fire week of committee hearings on the ridiculously named House of Representatives budget bill, the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” House Republicans passed the bill early Thursday morning while the rest of the country was still sleeping and unaware.
This devastating bill, if passed by the Senate, will drastically cut maternal and child health programs, family planning services, and HIV prevention efforts. Extremist GOP lawmakers have succeeded in one chamber of Congress so far in slashing billions of dollars in Medicaid funding in the United States, jeopardizing care for one in every five people.
Medicaid covers 42% [[link removed]] of all births and 75% [[link removed].] of publicly funded family planning services, and provides essential care for people who have no other access to healthcare. Stripping people of their healthcare to bankroll tax cuts for the exorbitantly wealthy is diabolical and will have irrevocable effects on people’s lives. Maternal mortality and health disparities will increase. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, rural, and low-income communities will be disproportionately harmed.
Devious House Republicans also got away with defunding Planned Parenthood in the more appropriately named Big Bad Bill . This is nothing more than a plot to end abortion in the United States, and they are happy to take away birth control, cancer screenings, access to healthcare, and more in the process.
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The Rundown
Abortion
* Republicans mask extremely unpopular attacks on reproductive rights as government cost-cutting measures by bringing in the Department of Government Efficiency to do their dirty work: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is a Sneak Attack on Abortion [[link removed]] (Slate, May 15, 2025).
* A big win in Michigan: a state court permanently struck down several onerous and baseless abortion restrictions in the state: Judge strikes down abortion waiting period in Michigan [[link removed]] (The Hill, May 15, 2025).
* Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has directed the FDA to "do a complete review" of its regulations on mifepristone, a safe and effective medication used in two-thirds of U.S. abortions: RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills [[link removed]] (Mother Jones, May 15, 2025).
* In Georgia, Adriana Smith’s body is being forcibly kept alive against her family’s wishes because of the state’s abortion ban: Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban [[link removed]] (AP News, May 16, 2025).
Domestic Health Care
* The cuts to federal spending proposed in Trump’s Big Bad Bill could jeopardize critical programs that disproportionately serve LGBTQ communities: GOP reconciliation bill would imperil critical LGBTQ-specific programs [[link removed]] (MSN, May 14, 2025).
* The Trump administration wants to force more women to stay at home with their children: Trump Has a Stay-At-Home Plan for Women [[link removed]] (Abortion, Every Day, May 12, 2025).
* Planned Parenthood offers gender inclusive birth control options to begin to shift family planning responsibility solely away from people who can become pregnant: Planned Parenthood launches vasectomy services in Hawaii [[link removed]] (Spectrum News, May 19, 2025).
International Family Planning
* Countries are struggling to maintain stable delivery of health care for their people in light of Trump and Musk’s decision to withhold aid: Cutting HIV aid means undercutting US foreign and economic interests − Nigeria shows the human costs [[link removed]] (The Conversation, May 19, 2025).
* The humanitarian system is facing severe funding shortfalls, threatening life-saving services for women and girls: Half of women’s organizations in crisis zones risk closure within six months [[link removed]] (UN News, May 13, 2025).
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