Psychiatric News (11/9) reported that on Nov. 8, the American Psychiatric Association “joined” the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Physicians “to urge the Trump administration to reverse actions taken this week that will limit women’s access to contraception.” The five medical “organizations spoke out just one day after the Trump administration issued a pair of federal rules that allow some employers to opt out of a requirement under the Affordable Care Act to provide” their employees with contraception. The groups wrote, “By undercutting women’s access to contraception, a key preventive service, at no out-of-pocket cost in private insurance plans, the final rules conflict with our firmly held belief that no woman should lose the coverage she has today.”
Related Links:
— “APA Speaks Out Against Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undercut Women’s Preventive Care, Psychiatric News, November 09, 2018.