Women's healthcare is facing a crisis. On the publication of this book, there are increasing efforts to restrict or limit funding for research and to limit public funding for healthcare services. These restrictions are most obviously recognizable by the executive order suggesting that federal grants should not use the word women in funding proposals. Meanwhile, the 2025 federal budget restricts and contracts Medicaid funding, 75% of which is used by women and children.

As a result, Elizabeth Palley, Howard Palley and Marian Lief Palley reexamine the politics of women's healthcare and what advocates have done to further enhance policies that promote women's health and wellbeing. They also consider where women's health care advocates have been successful, where they have been stymied and where advances have been reversed. Examining topics such as women's healthcare during pregnancy in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, as well as political and cultural obstacles women currently face regarding healthcare access and equity, the authors assess the current state of women's healthcare and highlight where women are most vulnerable.

Updates the text with contemporary developments in the politics of women's healthcare Addresses movement to curtail women's access to reproductive healthcare Addresses framing of women's health issues and the subsequent policy implications

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Elizabeth Palley is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Adelphi University and Director of the PhD program. Her research and writing focuses primarily on policy affecting women and children.

Howard A. Palley is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy and Distinguished Fellow at the School of Social Work at the University of Maryland Baltimore. He has published extensively on health care policy in the United States and abroad.

Marian Lief Palley is Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware and served as Director of the University of Delaware’s Women’s Studies Program. She has published many books and articles on women’s policy and politics.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Rethinking a Women's Health Care Agenda in the United States.- Chapter 2: Historical and Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 3: The Role of Politics in Influencing the Women's Health Agenda.- Chapter 4: Women's Reproductive Health.- Chapter 5: The Politicization of Abortion.- Chapter 6: Violence Against Women.- Chapter 7: Older Americans.- Chapter 8: The Politics of Disease.- Chapter 9: Conclusions.