What’s been designed here is a project that ensures a fossil fuel agenda, both in the literal and figurative sense.
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Department of Health and Human Services
1. Investigate state medical school compliance with the Coats—-Snowe Amendment,” which prohibits discrimination against health care entities that do not provide or undergo training for abortion.
2. Ensure that the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) complies with all relevant conscience statutes and regulations and that states have taken the affirmative steps (for example, by issuing regulations) to assure compliance with Coats-Snowe.
4. Require states that receive HHS funds to issue regulations or enter into arrangements with accrediting bodies to comply with the Coats-Snowe Amendment’s prohibition of mandatory abortion training by individuals or institutions. The Coats-Snowe Amendment specifically requires such state regulations or arrangements.
• =©6Prioritize funding for home-based childcare, not universal day care. As HRSA’s Early Childhood Health page outlines, “Currently, only about half of U.S. preschoolers are on-track with their development and ready for school. And more than one in four of children (28%) who experience abuse or neglect are under 3 years old.””? Concurrently, children who spend significant time in day care experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and neglect as well as poor educational and developmental outcomes. Instead of providing universal day care, funding should go to parents either to offset the cost of staying home with a child or to pay for familial, in-home childcare.
• Provide education and resources on early childhood health. By partnering with new organizations like the Center on Child and Family Poverty, HRSA should provide resources and information on the importance of the mother-child relationship in child well-being. This should include relationship education curricula that equip mothers and caregivers to connect with and improve their understanding of their infants, toddlers, and young children.
Maternal and Child Health. Currently, the HRSA Maternal and Child Health program is collecting data on the benefits of doulas in improving the health, safety, and emotional well-being of mothers at birth. Doulas provide a patient-focused, nonmedical support system for single or married mothers that “decreases the