Congressman Eliot Engel Denounces Trump for Rolling Back Contraception Coverage
By Bryant Daniels, Director of Public Affairs, Office of Congressman Eliot L. Engel
Oct. 11, 2017: Congressman Eliot L. Engel issued the following points on President Trump's decision to allow employers to omit coverage for contraception from their workers' plans:
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased access to affordable birth control for millions of American women. Under the ACA, insurers are required to cover birth control at no cost. We cannot roll back this progress. But that's exactly what President Trump's shameful new interim final rule will do.
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This interim final rule gives bosses, health plans, and schools veto power over women's health care choices by refusing to cover birth control. Curtailing access to birth control means curtailing women's ability to control their own health and bodies. It also means jeopardizing their health and economic well-being.
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House Republicans continually vote to ban abortion and defund Planned Parenthood, and today's decision by the president is just another example of the GOP's ongoing war on women.
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Women and couples use contraceptives to have healthier pregnancies, to plan their families, and to treat conditions like endometriosis. Birth control is health care. This rule is just the latest move by the administration and Republican-controlled Congress to roll back health care--and my fellow Democrats and I are going to fight back.
Pictured here: Congressman Eliot L. Engel.
Photo courtesy Bryant Daniels, Director of Public Affairs, Office of Congressman Eliot L. Engel
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