By Erin Gloria Ryan
Now that Donald Trump has nominated Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price
as secretary of Health and Human Services, it’s not only time to get
your IUD, it’s also time to stock up on birth control pills.
The week before the election, I wrote a half tongue-in-cheek piece about how women can hedge their electoral bets by getting IUDs as soon as possible, just in case Donald Trump won (ha ha, right?). And then he did, and the column went from reading as a joke invoking hand-wringing for intended comedic effect to something that read as serious food for thought for women of reproductive age. In the ensuing days, other publications called for similar courses of action, widely based on speculation about what a Trump-Pence administration would do to the Affordable Care Act, or to access to reproductive health services in general.
At the time, nobody knew exactly how Donald Trump would handle the contentious issue of government involvement in women’s reproductive healthcare. But now that Trump has nominated Rep. Price for the HHS role, we have something a little more concrete to go on.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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