Joe Biden signs executive order boosting access to birth control

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Source: UPI

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to expand access to free birth control, including over-the-counter contraception and family planning services, the White House announced.

As part of the order, Biden has directed the treasury, labor, and health and human services departments to put new policies in place that would boost birth control options and ensure health insurance coverage for all contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

In signing the order, Biden said, "Women should have access to the healthcare they need, including contraception and family planning services."

he order, which is Biden's first focused specifically on protecting and expanding access to contraception, also aims to boost attainability of Plan B emergency contraception -- commonly known as the "morning-after pill" -- that can prevent pregnancy up to five days after sex.


Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/06/23/biden-executive-order-access-to-birth-control-contraception/7691687523035/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!

[Deuxcents]

2. This is the 21st century and this is necessary?!

I’m glad he did it..don’t get me wrong but the very fact that women need this protection is beyond any reasonable expectation in 2023. One year ago today, fundamental rights to freedom was overturned by corrupt judges who have no medical or expertise in childbirth..except one and she’s also corrupt. It’s another affirmation that women are not allowed to be treated with respect. Once pregnant, they are their state’s property and their laws. It’s disgusting.

[peppertree]

5. +1

The medievalist mafias are as big a problem as they've been in a century at least.

Margaret Atwood wasn't kidding.

[AZ8theist]

10. These people say they want to take us back to the 50's....

the TWELVE 50's.

[peppertree]

11. No doubt about it

"Surely by the 21st century there'll be nothing like this barbaric inquisition, master."

"I wouldn't count on that, Adso."

[electric_blue68]

13. In the Women's Marches I went to before Covid there were the signs saying...

"It's 2020 (2021). I Can't Believe I'm Still For This/_______"


SOOoooo effin' true!!!!!
Infuriating! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[ificandream]

3. I can just hear the Republican whiners screaming about this.

[republianmushroom]

4. I like it

[forgotmylogin]

6. I've seen online services that offer birth control.

Seriously - I have mild ED and was able to secure a Sildenafil prescription with a 15-minute telehealth interview and subscription by mail. It should be that easy for women to manage their reproductive health.

[Hekate]

9. It should, but SCOTUS signaled a return to the Comstock Act when they passed Dobbs last year...

The states that are banning abortion are on it.

See this:

The revival of the Comstock Act: "How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218033834

[niyad]

7. KNR

[iluvtennis]

8. Awesome news. KnR. n/t

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12. K&R

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14. TY & Pres Biden