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Keep Your Hands Off Our Fucking Bodies: Why Reproductive Justice Must Be Part of Medicare for All

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There's some adult language in this episode, so might not be appropriate for our youngest M4A advocates. The recent leak of what is likely to be the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has us enraged about the future of abortion and healthcare in America. Spoiler: We aren’t loving the fact that five fucking reactionary clowns can take away the bodily autonomy of half the population of the US. Today, we’re making the case for why abortion access and - more broadly, reproductive justice - must be part of the Medicare for all movement. Our guest is Stephanie Nakajima, Executive Director of Mass-Care: the Massachusetts Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare. (But most importantly: former Director of Communications for Healthcare-NOW and former co-host of the Medicare for All podcast!) Show Notes Thanks to the Hyde Amendment (passed in 1976), federal funds (like Medicaid or insurance plans for federal/state employees) cannot be used to pay for a person’s abortion, unless that person became pregnant through rape, incest, or their life is in danger. This was a direct response to the original Roe v. Wade decision It has been reenacted every year since, likely because legislators feel like it’s too much of a hot button issue to mess with (i.e., we should just be happy for the access that is available and try not to push it further) This isn’t the case in most developed countries. For example, Ireland and Italy, which are famous for their devout Catholic populaces, even allow for publicly funded abortions. About 87% of employer-sponsored insurance plans cover medical and surgical abortion services. However: That means only people who have private insurance have access to these services, unless you live in one of the 17 states that fund abortions through state healthcare 10 states in the US don’t even allow private insurance to cover abortion (Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan) Stephanie has been the leading voice uplifting the importance of reproductive health in the single payer movement. Reproductive care, like most healthcare, is often out of reach for people who are uninsured or underinsured. In addition to the barriers to get an abortion (like protestors, 24 hour waiting periods, mandatory ultrasounds) the cost of the procedure. If you are poor and/or your healthcare plan is funded by the government, you are paying out of pocket for these services (the average cost of 1st trimester abortion in a non-hospital setting in the US is $508, costs increase into the thousands in later trimesters.) When we talk about "choice" we're talking about whether a person has a legal right to an abortion or will they be forced to give birth. By reframing the narrative around reproductive freedom, we broaden the conversation to include abortion rights as well as access to affordable or publicly-funded reproductive care, the right to have children, and access to services to raise and care for children like healthcare, childcare, a living wage, and paid family leave. Shifting to a Medicare for All system would have profound impacts on access to reproductive care - for better or potentially for worse - the M4A movement has NOT always had a great track record in supporting reproductive care. Many in the movement feel it's a separate issue that we should leave alone for fear of it taking down the chances of M4A. But if we don't fight for inclusion of this extremely common healthcare procedure in a M4A system, we are erasing the healthcare needs of a wide swath of the population. In 2016, Colorado’s single-payer ballot initiative - Amendment 69 overlooked abortion access, which led to opposition from NARAL ProChoice Colorado and Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which provided cover for most of the Democratic Party in the state to also oppose the ballot initiative. In large part to the catastrophic impact their single payer b...
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There's some adult language in this episode, so might not be appropriate for our youngest M4A advocates. The recent leak of what is likely to be the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has us enraged about the future of abortion and healthcare in America. Spoiler: We aren’t loving the fact that five fucking reactionary clowns can take away the bodily autonomy of half the population of the US. Today, we’re making the case for why abortion access and - more broadly, reproductive justice - must be part of the Medicare for all movement. Our guest is Stephanie Nakajima, Executive Director of Mass-Care: the Massachusetts Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare. (But most importantly: former Director of Communications for Healthcare-NOW and former co-host of the Medicare for All podcast!) Show Notes Thanks to the Hyde Amendment (passed in 1976), federal funds (like Medicaid or insurance plans for federal/state employees) cannot be used to pay for a person’s abortion, unless that person became pregnant through rape, incest, or their life is in danger. This was a direct response to the original Roe v. Wade decision It has been reenacted every year since, likely because legislators feel like it’s too much of a hot button issue to mess with (i.e., we should just be happy for the access that is available and try not to push it further) This isn’t the case in most developed countries. For example, Ireland and Italy, which are famous for their devout Catholic populaces, even allow for publicly funded abortions. About 87% of employer-sponsored insurance plans cover medical and surgical abortion services. However: That means only people who have private insurance have access to these services, unless you live in one of the 17 states that fund abortions through state healthcare 10 states in the US don’t even allow private insurance to cover abortion (Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan) Stephanie has been the leading voice uplifting the importance of reproductive health in the single payer movement. Reproductive care, like most healthcare, is often out of reach for people who are uninsured or underinsured. In addition to the barriers to get an abortion (like protestors, 24 hour waiting periods, mandatory ultrasounds) the cost of the procedure. If you are poor and/or your healthcare plan is funded by the government, you are paying out of pocket for these services (the average cost of 1st trimester abortion in a non-hospital setting in the US is $508, costs increase into the thousands in later trimesters.) When we talk about "choice" we're talking about whether a person has a legal right to an abortion or will they be forced to give birth. By reframing the narrative around reproductive freedom, we broaden the conversation to include abortion rights as well as access to affordable or publicly-funded reproductive care, the right to have children, and access to services to raise and care for children like healthcare, childcare, a living wage, and paid family leave. Shifting to a Medicare for All system would have profound impacts on access to reproductive care - for better or potentially for worse - the M4A movement has NOT always had a great track record in supporting reproductive care. Many in the movement feel it's a separate issue that we should leave alone for fear of it taking down the chances of M4A. But if we don't fight for inclusion of this extremely common healthcare procedure in a M4A system, we are erasing the healthcare needs of a wide swath of the population. In 2016, Colorado’s single-payer ballot initiative - Amendment 69 overlooked abortion access, which led to opposition from NARAL ProChoice Colorado and Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which provided cover for most of the Democratic Party in the state to also oppose the ballot initiative. In large part to the catastrophic impact their single payer b...
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