MUNSTER - Indiana State Representative Mara Candelaria Reardon is highly concerned about the future of womens' access to contraceptives. She says women's health is being used as a political football and as a tool to enable President Trump to keep his promises to his
religious supporters.
"Womens' healthcare and womens' access to healthcare, an important component of healthcare is being challenged by this administration and it's being made a political football because of promises made by Donald Trump to his religious alies in order to get into the White House," Candelaraia Reardon says.
She adds that women's health care and quality, affordable contraception shouldn't be controversial or up for debate in the year 2020.
"Nearly nine in 10 women of reproductive age has used contraceptives," Candelaria Reardon says. And it's 30 percent of womens' out-of-pocket healthcare costs."
The Supreme Court of the United States began hearing arguments in Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania as a consolidated case. The two cases combined will determine whether employers and universities can deny insurance coverage of contraceptives on the basis of moral or religious objections, and undermine the birth control benefit of the Affordable Care Act.
