It’s National Womens Health Week2017.
Because I cant think of anything more relevant or important today, this week, this year.
And I strongly encourage you to do the same!
KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images
Talk about them loudly, frequently, urgently.
And especially talk about them with your elected officialsthe politicians who are actually responsible for making these policy decisions.
Here are yourstate legislators.
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
Get to know them.
confirm they know you.
And just to be clear:Yes, people absolutely do die from lack of health insurance.
Stephen J. Boitano/LightRocket via Getty Images
Anypolitician who says otherwiseis either lying or is negligently misinformed about what he voted for.
Not sure which is worse.
Some other things you might want to say:
Reproductive healthcare is a human right and an economic issue.
Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
Here’s an in-depth look at90 of these bills.
It’s both inhumane and totally counterproductive.
Somewhere around 40 percent of unintended pregnancies end in abortion.
Affordable and accessible reproductive healthcare, including access tolong-acting reversible contraceptives, will help with that substantially.
Climate change is real.
There isoverwhelming scientific consensusin support of that fact.
Beyond national security, though, climate change poses an enormous and existential threat to global health.
According to theWorld Health Organization, more than 7 million people die every year from air pollution.
Climate change is also implicated in the spread of new diseases and outbreaks, like theZika virus.
President Trump hasopenly and repeatedly questioned climate change.
The administration has been flirting with the idea ofwithdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord.
And climate science has beenremoved from public view on the EPA website.
Let’s march in themarches, and make fabulous, witty, devastatingsigns.
