Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on Sunday urged the public to express their dissatisfaction with the Republican healthcare plan by contacting lawmakers.
In an op-ed published on Mother’s Day, the organization that provides women’s healthcare services and abortions, suggested the revised American Health Care Act would be an assault on women.
“This Mother’s Day, instead of taking your mom out to brunch or sending chocolate, commit to fighting for a government that recognizes that women deserve basic human rights and protections — including the right to decide when and whether to become a mom,” Richards wrote.
Richards said the proposal would “aim both barrels at women,” by making it harder to “plan your pregnancy, harder to have a healthy pregnancy and harder to take care of your children.”
“No matter how many ribbons and bows you put on it, that’s one ugly Mother’s Day present,” Richards wrote. “The fact that mothers reproduce will now be our economic burden.”
Instead, Richards rallied women and men alike to tell lawmakers to not exclude 24 million people from coverage on the Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill.
“After all, nothing says ‘I love you, Mom!’ like adding your members of Congress to your contacts, and letting them know you’re counting on them to stand up for women and families everywhere,” Richards wrote.
