Medicaid patients’ reproductive health care is under attack

Comment: Assault on abortion access quieter; just as dangerous

HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington Along with threats to Planned Parenthood, access to medication abortion is increasingly threatened. Comment: Assault on abortion access quieter; just as dangerous Wire Service

Medicaid patients’ reproductive health care is under attack

I am not about to sugarcoat what we at Planned Parenthood — and 1 in 4 of our patients in Maine — are facing right now.

Time for Sen. Collins to stand up for Maine's most vulnerable populations

As many Pen Bay Pilot readers know, the next federal budget bill passed the House by one vote and is now before the Senate. But readers might not know that the bill would throw tens of thousands of Mainers off Medicaid, would cut funding for the Department of Education, and would cut funding for food and nutrition programs for Maine children and Maine families - and would give yet more tax breaks to billionaires.

PPFA Patient: Women’s Healthcare Hangs in the Balance - Dallas Weekly

Six years ago, Kas Howar of Dayton, Ohio, was broke, homeless and newly pregnant. Unsure where to turn, Howar took a chance on a nonprofit organization that promised free, no-judgment medical help and resources for unplanned pregnancies.  But the care Howar received from the crisis pregnancy center — many of which are clinics that mimic women’s health centers, but are run by anti-abortion groups — was not helpful. The facility was cold and dim, …