Indigenous vs Hyde Amendment; House Bill Would Limit Care; Planned Parenthood Hearing Embarrasses GOP

Reproducing State Violence: Planned Parenthood, the Hyde Amendment and Indigenous Struggle. The theft of Native reproductive agency is a culturally and historically embedded aspect of the colonial experience. As a Native woman, my liberation demands that the Hyde Amendment be abolished, and that efforts to defund Planned Parenthood be thwarted.

House Bill on Medicaid Providers Would Limit Beneficiaries’ Access to Care. Limiting access to Planned Parenthood and other providers of family planning services would likely increase unplanned pregnancies and raise state costs. Moreover, if a state chose to broadly define providers “involved with abortions,” beneficiaries could lose access to other services.

Hearing On Planned Parenthood Embarasses Republican Lawmakers. “I think the whole purpose of this hearing was to convince themselves that it is OK to deny women the ability to go to the health care provider of their choice, because 2.7 million women and men choose Planned Parenthood, and they were trying to say they wanted to take that choice away from them.”