{"id":157705,"date":"2016-12-01T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157705"},"modified":"2025-06-20T00:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:10:51","slug":"pro-abortion-freakout-over-hhs-sec-pick-could-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-freakout-over-hhs-sec-pick-could-be-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the pro-abortion freakout over Trump’s HHS pick could be a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Live Action News has been covering, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s selection of pro-life Rep. Tom Price<\/a> to head his administration\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services has abortion advocates throwing conniptions<\/a>, with the latest batch coming courtesy of Rewire’s Ally Boguhn<\/a>. Their hysteria is, of course, not only unfounded but highly ironic:<\/p>\n

[National Partnership for Women & Families president Debra] Ness said\u00a0Price\u2019s \u201copposition to contraception coverage and abortion care harms women whose economic security, health and dignity is tied to their ability to plan whether and when to have children.\u201d She encouraged the U.S. Senate to \u201crefuse to confirm a nominee who poses such a significant threat to the health and well-being of women and families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price in\u00a0a 2012\u00a0interview with ThinkProgress<\/a>\u00a0discussed his opposition to the ACA\u2019s birth control benefit, which mandates that employer-sponsored health insurance plans cover contraception as preventive care with no cost to the consumer. Price\u00a0claimed \u201cthere\u2019s not one\u201d woman who would have trouble affording\u00a0contraception without it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Price was exactly right. As has been the case for years, contraception is readily available<\/a>\u00a0for prices ranging from\u00a0free<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0$9 per month<\/a> without Planned Parenthood or Obamacare. Whenever Ness and her fellow propagandists scream about pro-life policies \u201cthreatening\u201d women\u2019s \u201ceconomic security,\u201d this is what they mean. That\u2019s it. The more immediate threat to the abortion industry is that women are proving they don’t need it<\/a>, because they\u2019re stronger and smarter than abortion advocates\u00a0give them credit for. Boguhn’s article continues:<\/p>\n

\u201cPrice has voted for extreme bans on abortion care and coverage and vowed to end Obamacare. This nomination is yet another signal that Trump plans to make good on his promise to repeal Obamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, and punish women who have abortions by making the Hyde Amendment permanent,\u201d Destiny Lopez, co-director of All* Above All, said in a statement. \u201cTrump has no mandate to take away women\u2019s basic rights and we plan to fight these heinous proposals every step of the way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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