Public Health and Women
Notice: This section will encompass both women through gender identity (cis women, trans women, trans femme) and sexual assignment (people assigned female at birth who displayed external sexual characteristics of a female). Not all topics will apply to every identity.
The budget resolution bill that gives tax breaks to billionaires cuts more than $880 billion in medicare. Women make up the majority of adults who rely on medicare for primary and preventative care. In Trump’s DEI executive order, he slashes the study and data being collected by the CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. This program has been around since 1988 and attributed for improving outcomes for babies and mothers.