
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Casey Adams <br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[phmusa] </b></span><font face="-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">PHM-USA Denounces Trump Administration Attacks on Sexual and Reproductive Health </b></font><b style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">26 August 2019 at 18:47:22 GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><h1 class="gmail-m_1582476891982399445gmail-m_8523081984995103763entry-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;clear:both;line-height:1;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,56,125);text-transform:uppercase;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:10px;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)"><font size="2" class="">PHM-USA DENOUNCES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS ON SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH</font></h1><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class="">Thanks for reading! You can view the statement online <a href="https://phm-na.org/2019/08/phm-usa-denounces-trump-administration-attacks-on-sexual-and-reproductive-health/" target="_blank" class="">here</a>. </font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><blockquote style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;padding:10px 15px;border-width:5px 1px 1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);quotes:"" "";color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" class=""><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em" class=""><i style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Women’s human rights include the rights to equality, to dignity, autonomy, information and bodily integrity, and respect for private life and the highest attainable standard of health, including sexual and reproductive health, without discrimination; as well as the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. –</span></i><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Women/WG/WomensAutonomyEqualityReproductiveHealth.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><i style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">UN Human Rights Council</span></i></a></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Sexual and reproductive rights have suffered an onslaught of attacks and are threatened around the world, including in the United States. In the U.S., we see access to sexual and reproductive health services shrinking, and too many people, especially poor women, women of color and transgender people, are left without the full range of health care, a basic human right.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">People’s Health Movement-USA condemns all efforts by states or the federal government to restrict access to abortion or any sexual and reproductive health services. This is an attack on people’s autonomy over their bodies. It is discriminatory and is a violation of the universal right to health.</b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The Trump administration has worked to systematically dismantle funding to doctors and organizations that provide information, referrals, or services about the full scope of sexual and reproductive care, including access to abortions. It has reinstated and expanded the so-called </span><a href="https://hesperian.org/2018/01/11/global-gag-rule-denies-womens-right-to-health/" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">“global gag rule”</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> and, in the U.S., has imposed a </span><a href="https://www.nationalfamilyplanning.org/file/Domestic-Gag-Fact-Sheet.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">“domestic gag rule”</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> on Title X funding, which has been effectively regulated since 1970 without such a rule. These gag rules bar any organization that provides, makes referalls for, or otherwise include abortion in its family planning services from receiving federal funding. Anti-choice organizations have long advocated for these gag rules at the cost of millions of people’s right to reproductive health and freedom. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">With these actions, the Trump administration has </span><a href="https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2019/loss-of-title-x-providers" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">put at risk millions of people, especially low-income communities</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">, who seek birth control, cancer screenings and other essential health services from providers, such as Planned Parenthood, that receive Title X funding. Due to the rule going into effect many of these providers, including eight states, have been</span><a href="https://www.istandwithpp.org/no-gag-rule" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> forced to withdraw from the Title X program</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">, rather than provide misleading and incomplete information to patients who seek to make informed decisions about their healthcare. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://www.istandwithpp.org/no-gag-rule" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><img class="gmail-m_1582476891982399445gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_1582476891982399445gmail-m_8523081984995103763gmail-wp-image-1235 gmail-m_1582476891982399445gmail-m_8523081984995103763gmail-aligncenter gmail-CToWUd" src="https://phm-na.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-22-at-21.18.20.png" alt="" width="700" height="426" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; clear: both; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The result of restricting access to contraceptive services invariably leads to an </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/opinions/us-global-abortion-policy-brooks-bendavid-miller/index.html?no-st=1562586820&utm_campaign=KFF-2018-Daily-GHP-Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=74421387&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_b2YdPgc9hARID6rQqiYtfcZhTzH2ubw2MeG9wQ3J7FA3kymueKNwi_L54J8qV1OwQWcaURjrhb456gXFHbWRdaGhz1w&_hsmi=74421387" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">increased demand for abortions</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> for unplanned pregnancies. However, </span><a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/timeline-attacks-abortion" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">states</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> including Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Louisana, Mississipi, Georgia, Utah, and Arkansas have banned abortions during the very early weeks of pregnancy. Alabama has outlawed abortion in almost all circumstances, completely eliminating the right to choose and violating long-settled constitutional law. </span><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">This is a gross violation of human rights and is wholly unacceptable</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">As conservative lawmakers and politicians destroy these essential health services, they work simultaneously to further dismantle the Affordable Care Act and push for cuts in funding for Medicaid. These programs work to ensure that individuals and families have access to healthcare whenever they seek care, not only during or in the months following a pregnancy. Instead of crafting policies that would promote people’s health and well-being, these lawmakers advocate policies–such as regressive tax reforms or inhumane immigration policy–which perpetuate the gross social, economic, racial, gender, and many more inequities we see across the US:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Black women and Native American/Alaska Native women are dying</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">: These groups of women are </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6818e1.htm?s_cid=mm6818e1_w" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">3.3 and 2.5 times as likely</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">, respectively, as white women to suffer a death related to pregnancy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Poor women of color are suffering the most</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">: Women of color are more likely to be low-income and are disproportionately burdened by government restrictions on reproductive health services because they are more likely to be reliant on these services. </span><a href="http://news.trust.org/item/20180622160401-oqi82" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Women are more likely to become trapped in poverty when denied abortion rights/access</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> due to the extremely high costs of raising a child. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Migrant people – especially women – are going without care</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">: Policy barriers coupled with fear due to immigration status, language barriers, and logistical barriers contribute to wide gaps in health coverage for immigrant women. In 2016, </span><a href="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/nov/immigrant-womens-access-sexual-reproductive-health-coverage" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">34 percent of non-citizen immigrant women of reproductive age lacked health insurance</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> compared to 9 percent of U.S.-born women. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Transgender people are much more likely to live in poverty and are less likely to have health insurance than the general population</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">.They often </span><a href="https://www.kff.org/report-section/health-and-access-to-care-and-coverage-lgbt-individuals-in-the-us-health-challenges/" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">postpone or go without care when they are sick because they cannot afford it and because of discrimination</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> from many providers.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Moreover, the impacts of such policies reverberate across the globe. The United States provides critical funding to countries around the world which help women access essential health services, but the global gag rule threatens these funds, restricting the range of services that may be provided. </span><a href="https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/infographic-global-gag-rule/" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Up to 26 million women worldwide</span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""> are denied health services, including contraception services, under this discriminatory policy, and recent gains in maternal mortality and child health may be rolled back or erased entirely. </span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing:inherit;font-style:italic;margin:0px;padding:10px 15px;border-width:5px 1px 1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221);quotes:"" "";color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif" class=""><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em" class=""><i style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Reproductive justice is ensuring that everyone, especially exploited and oppressed people, have the economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, labour, sexuality and reproduction for ourselves, our families, and our communities in all areas of their lives. –</span></i><a href="https://phm-na.org/2017/09/international-safe-abortion-day-statement/" target="_blank" style="color:royalblue;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><i style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">PHM-NA Reproductive Justice Caucus</span></i></a></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><b style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">PHM-USA denounces regressive racist and sexist policies that restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services</b><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">, further threaten reproductive justice, perpetuate social and economic inequalities and violate people’s right to health. We stand in solidarity with LGBTQ people, women, children, and families everywhere who unjustly shoulder the burden of the outcomes of these policies. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><strong style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">We call on everyone to join PHM-USA and people in this struggle around the world to:</strong></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">denounce racist, sexist, and regressive policies that restrict access to sexual and reproductive health services and violate people’s right to health;</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">work to build and expand links between individuals and groups working on reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice on the ground in the US and globally;</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254);padding-left:40px" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">encourage and raise the profile of community-driven and community-centered approaches to reproductive justice, the redistribution of reproductive labour, and the just distribution of wealth and power.</span></p><h4 style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;margin-top:0px;line-height:1;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,56,125);background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:400" class="">Resources</span></h4><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://blackmamasmatter.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">Black Mamas Matter Alliance</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://phmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/C2.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">Global Health Watch 5: Gendered approach to reproductive and sexual health and rights</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://hesperian.org/2019/05/28/protecting-womens-health-information-actions/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">Hesperian, Protecting Women’s Health: Information & Actions</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><a href="https://www.istandwithpp.org/no-gag-rule" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">I Stand With Planned Parenthood</font></a></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://www.momsrising.org/campaigns/maternal-justice" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Mom’s Rising</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">, organizing for maternal justice</span></font></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://nwhn.org/10-things-know-trumps-title-x-rule/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">National Women’s Network, 10 Things to Know about Trump’s Title X Gag rule</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://phm-na.org/2017/09/international-safe-abortion-day-statement/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">PHM-North America Reproductive Justice Caucus</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><a href="https://phmovement.org/statement-on-access-to-safe-quality-and-legal-abortion/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class="">PHM Statement on Access to Safe, Quality and Legal Abortion</font></span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:1.5em;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,252,254)" class=""><span style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;outline:none" class=""><font color="#3d85c6" class=""><a href="https://www.sistersong.net/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;outline:none" class="">SisterSong</a></font></span></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:Tahoma" class="">Casey Adams<br class="">University of Washington MSW / MPH</div><div style="font-family:Tahoma" class="">Seattle, WA 98195</div><div style="font-family:Tahoma" class="">413.336.3367</div></div></div></div>

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