So pharmacist's can also deny viagra for men correct? I mean if they don't think it's right, and after all, viagra is far more likely to cause adverse or deadly side effects than abortion medication, or birth controls.
I’m worried about the pharmacists’ potential right to deny reproductive medication. As a chronic-pain patient who takes an opioid daily, someone might refuse to fill the prescription if they legally can. It’s a slippery slope.
So-called “conscience objection” has always been utilized to undermine women’s access to abortion even when/where it was legal. It has deadly consequences. I remember one of the justices (probably the sadist Alito) brought it up in the EMTALA Supreme Court case multiple times. I’m curious if “conscious objection” has ever been used to refuse men’s healthcare or is it just women and LGBTQIA+ patients?
This is backwards, they think that by scrubbing the CDC information that people won't look elsewhere to see what their legal rights are, or that by scrubbing it they create new law. Hint: It doesn't. HIPPA law is still in effect. I wonder what the Center For Reproductive Rights(not sure if I have the name of the organization that represented Amanda Zurawski et al) has to say about this.
In "The Life of Brian," a centurion tells a group of prisoners being led off to be crucified to shut up and stay in line. One of them says "Or WHAT?" and Trump is really moving toward that problem. It's not much of a threat to take away an agency's funding if it provides certain kinds of health care if you already shut down their funding, the whole agency, or, for that matter, the entire federal government.
And threatening to remove tax-exempt status is pretty meaningless, because the intended victims wouldn't have any significant tax liability anyway because if they stop running at a deficit they could mop up the potentially taxable profits by, say, paying their rank-and-file staffers better. And their corporate donors might be less willing to donate if they can't get a tax deduction--except that most corporations pay little or no income tax anyway, so loss of the deduction isn't much of a threat.
As for individuals, Trump 1.0 eliminated most middle-class tax deductions, so almost everybody has to use the standard deduction and can't deduct charitable contributions anyway. I live in New Jersey, so even though I have to pay state income tax and my real estate taxes are sky-high, I could only deduct $10,000 of the much larger amount even if I didn't have to use the standard deduction.
Not satisfied with fucking up ONE country, Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy: see Katie Keith, "Trump Reinstates Mexico City Policy, Priorities Hyde Amendment Enforcement," Health Affairs (Jan. 26, 2025), https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/trump-reinstates-mexico-city-policy-prioritizes-hyde-amendment-enforcement. There are two January 24 Trump EOs, one preventing organizations outside the US that get federal health funding from giving their patients access to abortion care, or even abortion information. The other reaffirms the applicability of the Hyde Amendment, which does not allow states to use federal Medicaid funds to provide abortions. (States can--and some do--cover Medicaid abortions by using their own funds.) These EOs revoke two 2022 Biden EOs.
Keith points out that these EOs wee issued right after Trump pardoned violators of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. It hras been reported that the Department of Justice doesn't consider bringing more FACE Act cases a priority.
Of course as Trump and his merry band go around shutting things down, orders telling the victims not to do something become less relevant. For example, the EO about the Mexico City Policy tells the US Agency for International Development to follow Trump's 2017 original order creating the Mexico City Policy. Musk is trying to shut down USAID.
The Mexico City Policy is nicknamed the "global gag rule" because it forbids grantees to discuss abortion. There is also a domestic version: Title X family planning programs in the US also lost funding if they discussed abortion. Biden issued rules in 2021 to reverse this gag rule. Trump's January 2025 EOs don't mention Title X, but the smart money bets on renewed action against Title X.
Just waiting for the Trump admin to decide that federal workers cannot access reproductive healthcare under their government provided insurance. That's 2.3 million families.
Oh, well, considering what Trump thinks of federal employees, they'll be lucky if he doesn't issue an EO authorizing hunting them from helicopters with AK-47s.
The Dems are asleep at the wheel and need to get busy filing as many lawsuits as they can and creating alternate sources of information. It is literally two weeks in and 47 has obliterated more than I imagined possible.
If medical health records regarding sexuality can be exposed to the public, then what about other issues? If somebody needs a new liver, should everybody be able to hear about it? What about treatment for mental health issues?
Pharmacies should be able to refuse to sell drugs applied to sexual behavior? What else can they refuse to sell? Prescriptions for fentanyl? If a pharmacy is taking money from the government to do business, then they should be obliged to sell anything the government is willing to pay for.
Is this something Trump is allowed to do, or is this going around Congress again? This administration is a bunch of sick men acting out their evil fantasies on the world. American women will be forced to have children, while the children that we formerly supported with USAID will starve to death, a horrible way to die.
At least Biden did something on this. Not that they are abiding by law and will honor it, but glad there is a slight roadblock in the way. Drag this fight out Dems, make it ugly and hard for them. Make every Republican admit constantly that they don't care about medical privacy.
My rep is an absolute chode who feigned caring about maternal mortality to gain votes. Thanks for inspiring me to troll him on this, and thanks for doing what you can. Best monthly fee I pay to be reminded of the good ones out there.
There appears to be absolutely no power to stop this or any of the other illegal actions by the regime. Judicial if they aren’t bought and paid for- too slow. Congress no power, forget the Supreme Court …. we can March and make calls and vote with our wallet. What else?
So pharmacist's can also deny viagra for men correct? I mean if they don't think it's right, and after all, viagra is far more likely to cause adverse or deadly side effects than abortion medication, or birth controls.
After all, it's about protecting men. The obviously cannot make those decisions for themselves...
I’m worried about the pharmacists’ potential right to deny reproductive medication. As a chronic-pain patient who takes an opioid daily, someone might refuse to fill the prescription if they legally can. It’s a slippery slope.
So-called “conscience objection” has always been utilized to undermine women’s access to abortion even when/where it was legal. It has deadly consequences. I remember one of the justices (probably the sadist Alito) brought it up in the EMTALA Supreme Court case multiple times. I’m curious if “conscious objection” has ever been used to refuse men’s healthcare or is it just women and LGBTQIA+ patients?
This is backwards, they think that by scrubbing the CDC information that people won't look elsewhere to see what their legal rights are, or that by scrubbing it they create new law. Hint: It doesn't. HIPPA law is still in effect. I wonder what the Center For Reproductive Rights(not sure if I have the name of the organization that represented Amanda Zurawski et al) has to say about this.
In "The Life of Brian," a centurion tells a group of prisoners being led off to be crucified to shut up and stay in line. One of them says "Or WHAT?" and Trump is really moving toward that problem. It's not much of a threat to take away an agency's funding if it provides certain kinds of health care if you already shut down their funding, the whole agency, or, for that matter, the entire federal government.
And threatening to remove tax-exempt status is pretty meaningless, because the intended victims wouldn't have any significant tax liability anyway because if they stop running at a deficit they could mop up the potentially taxable profits by, say, paying their rank-and-file staffers better. And their corporate donors might be less willing to donate if they can't get a tax deduction--except that most corporations pay little or no income tax anyway, so loss of the deduction isn't much of a threat.
As for individuals, Trump 1.0 eliminated most middle-class tax deductions, so almost everybody has to use the standard deduction and can't deduct charitable contributions anyway. I live in New Jersey, so even though I have to pay state income tax and my real estate taxes are sky-high, I could only deduct $10,000 of the much larger amount even if I didn't have to use the standard deduction.
Not satisfied with fucking up ONE country, Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy: see Katie Keith, "Trump Reinstates Mexico City Policy, Priorities Hyde Amendment Enforcement," Health Affairs (Jan. 26, 2025), https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/trump-reinstates-mexico-city-policy-prioritizes-hyde-amendment-enforcement. There are two January 24 Trump EOs, one preventing organizations outside the US that get federal health funding from giving their patients access to abortion care, or even abortion information. The other reaffirms the applicability of the Hyde Amendment, which does not allow states to use federal Medicaid funds to provide abortions. (States can--and some do--cover Medicaid abortions by using their own funds.) These EOs revoke two 2022 Biden EOs.
Keith points out that these EOs wee issued right after Trump pardoned violators of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. It hras been reported that the Department of Justice doesn't consider bringing more FACE Act cases a priority.
Of course as Trump and his merry band go around shutting things down, orders telling the victims not to do something become less relevant. For example, the EO about the Mexico City Policy tells the US Agency for International Development to follow Trump's 2017 original order creating the Mexico City Policy. Musk is trying to shut down USAID.
The Mexico City Policy is nicknamed the "global gag rule" because it forbids grantees to discuss abortion. There is also a domestic version: Title X family planning programs in the US also lost funding if they discussed abortion. Biden issued rules in 2021 to reverse this gag rule. Trump's January 2025 EOs don't mention Title X, but the smart money bets on renewed action against Title X.
Just waiting for the Trump admin to decide that federal workers cannot access reproductive healthcare under their government provided insurance. That's 2.3 million families.
You know it is coming.
Oh, well, considering what Trump thinks of federal employees, they'll be lucky if he doesn't issue an EO authorizing hunting them from helicopters with AK-47s.
The Dems are asleep at the wheel and need to get busy filing as many lawsuits as they can and creating alternate sources of information. It is literally two weeks in and 47 has obliterated more than I imagined possible.
If medical health records regarding sexuality can be exposed to the public, then what about other issues? If somebody needs a new liver, should everybody be able to hear about it? What about treatment for mental health issues?
Pharmacies should be able to refuse to sell drugs applied to sexual behavior? What else can they refuse to sell? Prescriptions for fentanyl? If a pharmacy is taking money from the government to do business, then they should be obliged to sell anything the government is willing to pay for.
Is this something Trump is allowed to do, or is this going around Congress again? This administration is a bunch of sick men acting out their evil fantasies on the world. American women will be forced to have children, while the children that we formerly supported with USAID will starve to death, a horrible way to die.
At least Biden did something on this. Not that they are abiding by law and will honor it, but glad there is a slight roadblock in the way. Drag this fight out Dems, make it ugly and hard for them. Make every Republican admit constantly that they don't care about medical privacy.
Thank you Jessica
Is there anything we can do about this? I called my representative but who knows if that does anything
My rep is an absolute chode who feigned caring about maternal mortality to gain votes. Thanks for inspiring me to troll him on this, and thanks for doing what you can. Best monthly fee I pay to be reminded of the good ones out there.
WTF. Project 2025 speed run.
News over here (Aus) is all about Tariffs. Women and Girls safety /health /rights not as important. Big Shock.
There appears to be absolutely no power to stop this or any of the other illegal actions by the regime. Judicial if they aren’t bought and paid for- too slow. Congress no power, forget the Supreme Court …. we can March and make calls and vote with our wallet. What else?
He is going way too far. Who controls this stuff?