Gutting Planned Parenthood’s funding while simultaneously choking Medicaid is like setting fire to the only lifeboat in a flood.
Let’s call the Republicans’ so-called ‘big beautiful bill” what it is: a legislative double-barreled shotgun aimed at the bodies of women, especially Southern women and women who are Black, brown and low-income. One barrel blasts Medicaid access. The other guts Planned Parenthood. The result? A deliberate attempt to kill reproductive freedom, strip women of their basic dignity and destroy what progress this region has made in maternal health outcomes.
This isn’t just policy. It’s punishment.
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