Blocking access to reproductive health care has real and disastrous consequences for all people and often has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, who already face systemic barriers in accessing quality health care.
Not exact matches
«Defunding Planned Parenthood would be devastating
to Florida, stripping away essential
health care that tens of thousands of patients rely on, and
blocking millions across the country from
accessing reproductive health care,» said Laura Goodhue, executive director of the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, West Palm Beach.
They stressed that «defunding» Planned Parenthood would be devastating
to Florida, stripping away essential
health care that tens of thousands of patients rely on, and
blocking millions across the country from
accessing reproductive health care.
«From the beginning, this relentless campaign has been about one thing: antiabortion extremists who will do anything — lie, twist facts, villainize providers, and even reportedly break the law — in their quest
to ban abortion and
block millions from
accessing basic
reproductive health care,» she said in a statement
to The Washington Post.
In every case related
to reproductive rights that Gorsuch considered as a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, he ruled in a way that would have
blocked women's
access to reproductive health care.
If patients»
access to Planned Parenthood
health centers is
blocked, there simply aren't enough
reproductive health -
care providers
to pick up the slack.
FACT: When lawmakers in Louisiana, Ohio, and Florida tried
to block access to Planned Parenthood in the past, they suggested women could go
to «alternative» providers for
reproductive health care, including dentists, food banks, nursing homes, ENTs, elementary schools, rehabs, and retirement homes.
Restrictions on abortion and other
reproductive health care — including
blocking access to preventive
health care at Planned Parenthood — have very real consequences for women: