{"id":244,"date":"2012-06-05T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2012-06-05T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:28:00","slug":"reproductive-health-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive Health &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/05\/opinion\/reproductive-health.html?_r=1\">Reproductive Health &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Re \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/the-attack-on-women-is-real.html\">The Campaign Against Women<\/a>\u201d (editorial, May 20):        <\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">The onslaught of laws focusing on denying reproductive health care rights is a concerted campaign against women. These laws are not grounded in science or evidence-based medicine.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that access to family-planning counseling and to the full array of contraceptives is a basic and essential component of preventive health care for women.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides cervical cancer and mammography screening, contraception and other preventive care to millions of women, are egregious and disproportionately hurt poor women.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">As physicians for women\u2019s health care, ob-gyns see firsthand the havoc that punitive ideology-based laws have on the health of women and their families. These ill-conceived laws are based on the pretext of protecting health, but they do anything but that.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">Mandating that women be legally forced to undergo transvaginal ultrasound or any other medical procedure against their will and against their physician\u2019s judgment is an outrageous violation of patient autonomy and the confidential doctor-patient relationship. Decreasing access to family planning and contraception will only increase unintended pregnancies and negatively affect family and societal health.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">Politicians were not elected to, nor should they, legislate the practice of medicine or dictate the parameters of the doctor-patient relationship. Our message to politicians is unequivocal: Get out of our exam rooms.        <\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">JAMES T. BREEDEN<br \/>President, American Congress<br \/>of Obstetricians and Gynecologists<br \/>Washington, May 22, 2012        <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reproductive Health &#8211; NYTimes.com Re \u201cThe Campaign Against Women\u201d (editorial, May 20): The onslaught of laws focusing on denying reproductive health care rights is a concerted campaign against women. These &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reproductive Health &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reproductive-rights"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}