If the Affordable Care Act were repealed, millions of women stand to lose coverage for basic reproductive services such as birth control coverage, mammograms and HPV testing, among a long list of other health services. Before the measure went to a vote, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand addressed the Senate floor urging her colleagues to support the amendment to the measure she proposed this past Tuesday. The amendment was meant to ensure women’s health services under the Affordable Care Act would remain in place even if the ACA were repealed. Gillibrand explained exactly why this amendment is so integral to women’s health and well-being. “[The Affordable Care Act] said to women of America ‘You can’t be charged more just because you’re a woman,’” the New York Senator said.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2017 22:05 UTC