This presentation examines recent health care cuts through the lens of reproductive justice, arguing that they build on a history of structural violence within the U.S. health policy landscape. Rather than reduce spending through universal health coverage reform, recent legislation attacks key pillars of our healthcare system: Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and reproductive health care providers. This structural violence will widen long standing health inequities affecting low-income and underserved populations, and particularly immigrants, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and disabled people. Further, it will raise barriers to reproductive justice: the right to have children, not have children, and raise children in safe, sustainable, and healthy communities. The injustices to come are not incidental; they are legislated. This presentation offers the Medicaid and Reproductive Justice Collaborative’s “Reproductive Justice Principles for Federal Universal Health Care Reform” as a policy framework for assessing and advancing federal health care reform that centers inclusion, representation, and nondiscrimination and ensures affordable and comprehensive health coverage, including sexual and reproductive health coverage, for all.
Audience for this event: All are welcome
