Re: “U.S. appeals court upholds Trump ban on family-planning funding” [Feb. 25, A4]:
I was honored to be U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s guest at the State of the Union address to show President Donald Trump we will never stop fighting for health-care access. As a Title X patient, I find it vitally important to advocate for people to have access to health care like I had because it has positively impacted my life.
President Trump’s gag rule made it so Planned Parenthood was forced to withdraw from the Title X program because it would not comply with an unethical gag rule on providers that would have detrimental impacts on patients. Washington took a strong stance against the administration when local leaders announced they would cover these losses, but we are still fighting for a long-term solution to cover care for people with low incomes.
Republicans can try to ignore my story, and the stories of more than 90,000 Washingtonians who rely on Title X, but Sen. Murray won’t. She fights for each of us and ensures we have access to affordable reproductive care. The State of the Union, and the continual attacks made by this administration, make it clear to me we must keep fighting for the health and rights of all people.
Emma Bosley, Vancouver
Note from KBJ: Except the most vulnerable among us: unborn babies.
