Republican Representative Tom Price (R-GA) proposed by Donal Trump as the new Secretary of Health and Home Services.
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The likely new secretary for health and human services thinks that insurance companies shouldn’t pay for birth control and that the morning-after pill is tantamount to murder.
Now that Donald Trump has nominated Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services, it’s not only time to get your IUD, it’s also time to stock up on birth control pills.
The week before the election, I wrote a half tongue-in-cheek piece about how women can hedge their electoral bets by getting IUDs as soon as possible, just in case Donald Trump won (ha ha, right?). And then he did, and the column went from reading as a joke invoking hand-wringing for intended comedic effect to something that read as serious food for thought for women of reproductive age. […]
