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Costs of TX Family Planning Cuts; Obama Enforcing Birth Control Rights; US Last in Maternal Health
The Family Planning Cuts That the Texas Legislature Forced Through Are Having Dire Consequences. More than half of Texas women have faced at least one barrier to getting the reproductive health services they need.
The White House Just Got Aggressive Enforcing Obamacare’s Birth Control Mandate, The new guidelines clarify that insurance plans must cover, without co-payments, all of the 18 types of contraceptives that the FDA has found to be safe and effective, even when the prescription calls for sterilization or an IUD, which can cost up to $1,000.
Report Ranks U.S. Last Among Developed Countries for Maternal Health. Averaging all measures, the U.S. ranked as the 33rd best country for mothers out of 179 surveyed countries, down from 31st the previous year (2014). But on maternal health the U.S. ranked 61st.
