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Trump cuts risk undermining reproductive health services
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President Trump has called himself the "fertilization president" but his administration's recent gutting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called his commitment to in vitro fertilization (IVF) into question. |
"Trump said he is the fertility president. But how does cutting these programs support his administration's position?" one former CDC employee said. The Department of Government Efficiency's mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have reduced staff working at maternal health and reproductive health programs including teams that report on fertility outcomes of IVF clinics. HHS laid off 10,000 employees earlier this month, which included removing three-quarters of the CDC's reproductive health division, a former employee told The Hill. The CDC's six-person Assited Reproductive Technology Surveillance team is now gone as well as a 17-person team that worked on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. The CDC no longer has a dedicated team studying contraception use. Couples who are trying to conceive now do not have access to trustworthy federal information on IVF clinics and their chances of conceiving. And there are now fewer people monitoring pregnancy health outcomes or doing in-depth research on why some women and children die in childbirth. Public health experts warn that cuts to these programs will have lasting effects on Americans and create a blind spot in women's health, making it more dangerous to be pregnant in the U.S. The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates out of similarly wealthy nations, with 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to the CDC's most recent data. "I think women and children in this country are going to be less healthy, going to die sooner, and I think it's going to take us longer to fully understand the ramifications of that," said Sean Tipton, chief advocacy and policy officer at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, which represents fertility medicine providers. |
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday said the adoption of President Trump's domestic agenda would literally hurt and kill people due to cuts to federal health care programs. The Democratic leader said the Republicans' designs for Medicaid, in particular, would erode coverage for millions of Americans at the expense of their well-being. "They want to end Medicaid as we know it," Jeffries told reporters … |
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The Trump administration will set limits on the amount of "forever chemicals" producers of the toxic substances can discharge into the water, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Monday. The administration said it will set discharge limits for a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS. The limitations will apply to companies that make these substances, as well as metal finishers. In a press release announcing … |
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House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday that President Trump "does not want" the "one big, beautiful bill" encompassing his agenda "to be a health care bill." "Medicaid … all falls underneath the Energy and Commerce Committee, not Ways and Means," Smith said when asked about cuts to Medicaid via the bill on "The Hill Sunday" by NewsNation's Chris Stirewalt. "But, I will say that the president's been crystal … |
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GOP Medicaid debate intensifies as Republicans search for cuts |
House Republicans are under the gun to get specific on how they will offset President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, and they will soon need to decide if they will touch the political stove by trying to scale back Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is at the heart of the GOP plan to pass a "big beautiful bill" and make budget space for an extension of Trump's tax cuts. Party leaders have been vague about their plans, … |
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
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- U.S. government researchers present 'phenomenal' new data on HPV vaccines (Stat)
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