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On the recordMarch 7, 2019
since day one of the Trump administration, the Republicans have done everything they can to cater to an extreme rightwing base by undermining women's access to the healthcare they need and the healthcare providers they trust. They have moved to roll back requirements that insurance companies include birth control as an essential health benefit, which would mean millions of women would go back to paying extra for birth control on top of their coverage. They have held votes on extreme abortion bans that would get in between a woman and her doctor. They have jammed the courts, even the Supreme Court, with partisans who have made clear they share the extreme and frightening goal of overturning Roe v. Wade and of taking away a woman's constitutional right to safe, legal abortion in the United States of America. Most recently, the Trump administration has put forward a deeply harmful rule that would jeopardize access to affordable reproductive healthcare for the millions of men and women who depend on title X, our Nation's family planning program, which historically has had bipartisan support. If this rule goes into effect, providers at health centers that receive title X funding will be blocked--gagged--from even telling patients about where and how to get a safe, legal abortion as part of a discussion of reproductive healthcare options.…
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington
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Mar 7, 2019

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