Green Living Seminar Series webinars are free and open to the public; community members can register for each lecture at mcla.edu/greenliving. All seminars take place weekly on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. through April 14. Fey leads Power to Decide s federal health policy and advocacy portfolio, where she identifies, develops, and promotes a variety of federal policy activities to improve information and access to contraception for everyone. She is an expert on key federal programs and policies including the Title X Family Planning Program, the women s preventive services provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid coverage of family planning, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program, the Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), military service members reproductive health care, and federal abortion policy.
pregnancies from happening in the first place. conservatives worry ied abou the budget would say where is the money going to come from. allocating $100 million. where s the money coming from? that s $100 million in the context of the federal budget is a small number. it s important that there are existing programs relating to adoption and teen pregnancy prevention and related to housing that we can cobble them together. the importance of this is that people need to. stop yelling and screaming and find common ground. for 40 years everybody is yelling at each other, protesting, trying to defund planned parenthood olympic let s stop the yelling and screaming. let s do what the people want us to do, which is solve problems. this is a way to do it. going back to reducing the number of abortions, you talk about preventing unintended pregnan pregnancies. you can call them an accident or a mistake. but where s the system falling short roigt now when it comes to that? i don t think we h
opposition to contraception up to the top of the political agenda. and i recognize this is state politics and the national media is generally not that great at covering state level politics. we can t talk about anything going on until it s happening at the federal level. to be hon jeest this is happeni at the federal level, too. from the moment they came in power, republicans in the house of representatives, have been waging a war on women s health. if you don t believe me, just look at the first bills they introduced after they arrived here in washington d.c. and were sworn into office. the first three bills they introduced were direct attacks on women s health in america. the very first bill, hr 1. would have totally eliminated title x funding for family planning and teen pregnancy prevention. another one of the opening round of bills, more than a year ago would ly codified
anywhere republicans have power. they moved abortion and even opposition to contraception up to the top of the political agenda. i recognize this is state politics and the national media is generally not that great at covering state level politics. like we can t talk about anything going on until it happens at the federal level, to be honest, this is happening at the federal level, too. from the moment they came in to power, republicans in the house of representatives have been waging a war on women s health. if you don t believe me, just look at the first bills they introduced after they arrived here in washington d.c. and were sworn in office. the first three bills they introduced were direct attacks on women s health in america. the very first bill, hr 1, would have totally eliminated title x funding for family planning and teen pregnancy prevention. another one of their opening round of bills more than a year ago would have permanently codified the hyde amendment, the