What Trump’s new abortion rule could mean for women’s health
“The new policy would particularly effect low-income women without easy access to other affordable reproductive health facilities. According to a recent analysis, ‘in one-fifth of the counties in which they are located, Planned Parenthood sites are the sole safety-net family planning center.’ And 30% of the more than 19 million US women who need publicly supported access to birth control are uninsured, according to the Guttmacher Institute. So, if anything, the new rule is likely to cause an increase in unintended pregnancies, and to decrease the quality of care for women who rely on federally-funded health clinics across the United States.”