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Statement

Trump Administration’s War on Our Health Care Continues with New Move that Will Encourage Discrimination and Denial of Care

January 18, 2018
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO of MomsRising, a national online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, on the Trump administration’s rule released this morning
“Once again, the Trump administration is attacking the health and economic security of America’s families. The Trump administration just announced a move to offer health care providers a license to discriminate by allowing them to deny patients the care they need if the provider -- a doctor, nurse, hospital or other entity -- has a religious or moral objection to the procedure. This rule disproportionately harms women and transgender people and will allow providers to impose their privately-held religious beliefs on their patients, regardless of the patient’s health care needs.
 
“Reasonable accommodations to protect the religious freedom of health care providers are already in place. The new draft rule is gratuitous and terribly dangerous; it gives doctors, nurses, hospitals and others permission to discriminate and to deny people essential, even life-saving, care. This action will cause real harm to transgender patients, women seeking reproductive health care, and those in other vulnerable communities.
 
“The moms of America vehemently oppose discrimination in health care and we will fight this new action. The Trump administration has declared war on our health care with a series of shameful actions designed to sabotage the Affordable Care Act and deny coverage to hardworking families and individuals. This is another part of the administration’s attack on our families’ access to health care. It is truly a disgrace.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.