The mandate of birth control is not necessary due to Planned Parenthood, which we will also end up – Mother Jones

The Trump administration’s argument to allow many employers to withdraw from covering birth control is … not exactly the ball test.

Yesterday, Vox said the Trump administration is considering a large exemption from Obamacare's mandate on contraceptive coverage, according to a project disclosed by the proposed rule. If it is adopted, the rule would allow practically any employer, not just religious, to remove the coverage of the birth control of his insurance regime if contraception violates the religious beliefs of the organization or “moral condemnations” –a broad and troubled standard.

But, in a curious turn, part of the justification of the Trump administration for the movement depends on the existence of hundreds of clinics from Planned Parenthood, many of which the White House tries to close by “finishing” Planned Parenthood.

As the draft text explains, the administration considers that the previous justification for the Obamacare contraception mandate is insufficient. The document lists several reasons why this is the case. Here is one of them:

“There are multiple federal, state and local programs that offer free or subsidized contraceptives for low -income women, including Medicaid (with a 90% federal match for family planning services), title X, health center subsidies and temporary assistance for needy families. According to the Guttmacher Institute. Coverage of the law of the state.

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“The availability of these programs to serve the most risky women identified by the OI [Institute of Medicine, now known as the National Academy of Medicine] decreases the government's interest in applying the mandate to the employers of the object. »»

The involvement here is that as there are already programs like Medicaid and the title X to help low -income women to afford contraception, the requirement that most employers provide contraception without cost is less urgent.

But there are some blatant contradictions here: first of all, the 8,409 health centers that provide family planning services from Medicaid and Title X, as cited in the rule, 817 of them are managed by Planned Parenthood – The very group that the Congress and the Administration are trying to exclude from the use of title X and Medicaid funds to provide health care.

Trump has already signed a bill allowing States to exclude Planned Parenthood and other suppliers who offer abortions by receiving funding from family planning of title X – without the spirit that the financing of title X is used exclusively for non -abortions services. Beyond that, there are several other proposals that move through the government – including in the American health care law and in Trump's budget proposal – to retain Medicaid and other federal dollars, including title X, in particular Planned Parenthood.

The problem with the logic of the White House comes down to this: As the largest federal care provider funded by title X, in 2015, Planned parenting centers served more than 40% of women on a national scale using family planning care funded by title X – a huge 1.58 million patients. But if Planned Parenthood can no longer receive a single federal dollar to provide contraception and other family planning care – an often repeated objective of the Trump administration – then these almost 1.6 million low -income patients will suddenly lose their family planning care. And now their employers may no longer cover this care.