Biden signs executive order on advancing study of women's health while chiding 'backward' GOP ideas
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday aimed at advancing the study of women’s health by strengthening data collection and providing better funding opportunities for biomedical research while chiding Republicans for having “no clue about the power of women” but saying they’re “about to find out” come November’s election.
Women’s health has long been underfunded and understudied. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the federal government mandated women be included in federally funded medical research; for most of medical history, though, scientific study was based almost entirely on men.
“We still know too little about how to effectively prevent, diagnose and treat a wide array of health conditions in women,” said Dr. Carolyn Mazure, the head of the White House initiative on women’s health.
Today, research often fails to properly track differences between women and men, and does not represent women equally particularly for illnesses more common to them — which Biden suggested his order would help change.
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I knew women's health was not great, but medicine isn't like on TV and a lot of it is still a crapshoot, but once I was engrossed in the world of maternity I found that women's health is abysmal.
"Grab 'em by the research funding"
All GOP ideas are backwards. Ever. Always have been.
If it pisses them off that Biden is helping women, keep doing it. They have been able to get away with being sexist for way to long.
starting to feel like Roe v. Wade falling was a purposeful bipartisan act
Republican Pro Life Camp yells yay abortion is gone
Democrat For Women's Reproductive rights go yay something to fight for
never winning with this way already feeling like the rest of our lives will be just fighting for what they take and voting the people in who do it because they promise to fix it
tired of just fighting why can we not just fucking fix shit
how the fuck does this guy still have support
could he not have taken the same effort to legalize abortion?
quarter assing everything at best as always
And at the opposite side of the spectrum we haaave……ah yes, arresting women for miscarrying [Oklahoma], enacting laws to force women [and children] to flee their home states [e.g. Ohio and Texas] to get medical care they need, while also attempting to criminalize them for crossing state lines to get said medical care [Texas, Idaho, Missouri IIRC], which would be unconstitutional, but would likely take time to fight in the courts.
If he had the Senate AND House on his side and wasn’t able to get it done, I can see the criticism, but you know right now if it passed the Senate its going no where with MJ as House leader at the very least. Unless there is some magical executive power that the Supreme Court won’t shut down a la Roe vs Wade.
No need for nitty gritty, ignoring laws and courts is what dictators do. The hhs secretary is the one to determine a national health emergency and by law can only do so for a disease or disorder. Pregnancy is neither.
Acting like he hasn't done anything besides not be Trump is disingenuous at best especially considering the congresses he's had to work with.
thank you for expanding on this
Democrats could have had a landslide victory with no contest if they would just play the cards on the table and be on the peoples' side for once
not doing so seems fishy why would you not look out for the citizens and instantly lock in votes? who else could the politicians be looking out for?
The supreme court has demonstrated its illegitimacy.
The congress he had to work with at the start of his term had a Democratic majority, which considered preserving the filibuster to be more important than protecting Roe.
No, he literally could not have legalized abortion with an executive order.