Trump Administration Jeopardizes Women's Healthcare Services In US
Bringing back to basics, United States healthcare system are put into a challenge by the new administration. President Donald Trump is craving to fill in the seat in the Supreme Court with a conservative jurist. Many feared that if this will happen, women's health, sexual and reproductive rights will be at stake.
According to Huffington Post, back on January 22, 1973 the high court in a 7-2 opinion concluded that the woman's right to obtain abortion care is a constitutional one, protected by the due process clause of the 14th amendment. This is one of the milestone of the women's right, so if this law will be reversed, only healthy women will be able to afford to travel to states that provide abortion care, and women with less income will be denied to access quality healthcare.
Fundamental in human rights is to have an access to affordable and relevant health services and to accurate comprehensive health information. But there are many instances that prevents these rights from being realized like gender-based discrimination, lack access to education, poverty and violence against women and girls.
Around the world one woman dies every 90 seconds in pregnancy or childbirth, that is 350,000 each year. In this case, maternal health is very important aspect of sexual and reproductive health and rights that is to be enjoyed by women.
Amnesty USA explains that all women have all the right to accessible, affordable and adequate health care that considers their cultural needs. The right to access health care without discrimination, the right to have health care that caters to their own personal needs as women and the right to have a range of prevention and treatment services in their sexual and reproductive health are the most important rights all women do have.
Trump and Congress are plotting an action to roll back this progress even before the appointment of the arch conservative Supreme Court Justice affecting the people who can least afford to lose rights. Aside from these, the administration is giving states more flexibility to healthcare services. This suppleness of services does not mean giving quality access to health services but Trump administration just want to cut federal medicaid funding, limiting health care spending on low income individuals. So, if President Trump will succeed in filling up the Supreme Court with conservative jurist, then women's right to healthcare also will be altered and women's rights is in jeopardy.