Right to Life County Executive
Cuts Funding for Contraception for Teens, Well-Baby Care and Sex Education
This is outrageous! Less than three months after the Department of Health and Human Services announced that contraception is so important that it is being designated preventive care, in accordance with the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine, and joining the list of key services such as mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, prenatal care, well-woman visits, and gestational diabetes screenings, Astorino puts his right-to-life, anti-birth-control, far-right mentality into action, attacking our teenagers’ health and rights.
Nothing seems more like preventive care than contraception!
Why is Astorino doing this? This is clearly not about reducing our taxes or about jobs.
Just like the tea baggers in Congress who are seizing every opportunity to attack women’s reproductive rights, Astorino has chosen this moment, when Westchester has sky rocketing unemployment and depleted tax revenues to put his personal anti-choice tea party stamp on our county.
Simply not funding contraceptives and not teaching sex ed does not make sex go away. Instead, it will most likely lead to a dramatic increase in teen pregnancies.
When these babies are then born there will be no well-baby care available because Astorino has cut that too.
Astorino is the true embodiment of the right-to-life philosophy: care about the fetus, but when it’s born, throw it and its mother under the bus.
Who is most effected by Astorino’s actions? Anyone who utilizes any one of Westchester County’s community health centers—teenagers, the unemployed, the working poor, those without health insurance.
Who won’t it affect? Astorino and his financially secure friends.
On Election Day
Astorino Wants Your Help In This Attack
Astorino has hand-picked candidates to challenge incumbents. The Astorino gang have all sworn their allegiance to him as attested to at the press conference held on October 7th. On the steps of the County office building and in their own press releases, these candidates have said they will be a [guaranteed] vote for the Astorino agenda and that they share his [governing] philosophy more than 99% of the time.
That means they too believe in outsourcing jobs including the Community Health Centers, as well as cutting funding for contraceptives for teens, well-baby care and sex ed.
Astorino and his gang are committed to creating a sick Westchester, not a healthy one!
