⚡ TL; DR (too long, didn’t read)

Republicans are putting billionaires over the health of millions by attacking Medicaid.

Medicaid is a lifeline for millions of people—especially women of reproductive age. It funds nearly half of all births, covers essential care like birth control and prenatal visits, and helps people access care before, during, and after pregnancy.

When extremists go after Medicaid, they’re attacking reproductive freedom by design.

🩺 Medicaid and Reproductive Freedom: What’s the Connection?

Picture three women you know between the ages of 19 and 44. Statistically, two of them could be getting their health care through Medicaid.

We’re talking birth control, prenatal visits, postpartum care, STI screenings, cancer screenings, and other reproductive health care.

That’s not “just health care.” That’s reproductive freedom. Right now, Medicaid is under attack from every angle.

🚨 The Big Three Threats to Medicaid

These attacks aren’t about budgets or bureaucracy. They’re part of a deliberate strategy to strip away reproductive freedom by making it harder to get basic care.

🔎 Key Facts about Medicaid and Voter Support 

Again, more than 70 million people rely on Medicaid—and nearly two-thirds of the adult women enrolled are in their prime reproductive years (19–44). That’s not a small slice. That’s a backbone of reproductive-age care.

Medicaid makes essential health care possible for millions.

This isn’t just a health program. It’s one of the largest providers of reproductive health care in the country covering prenatal and postpartum care, STI + cancer screenings, and more.

And that’s exactly why it’s been a target for decades.

Medicaid, Abortion, and the Hyde Amendment 

While Medicaid provides critical reproductive health care, abortion access has been intentionally restricted since 1976 through the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion except in very limited cases thanks to anti-abortion extremists. And now they’re chipping away at even more access to care. This is because their goal has never been to block abortion—it’s to chip away at all forms of reproductive care: birth control, IVF, and more.

This isn’t accidental. It’s part of a broader strategy: Project 2025 outlines how Trump and his cronies plan to take away birth control, IVF, and impose extremist Christian Nationalist ideals through federal policy.

And if anti-abortion extremists can’t ban care outright, they make it harder to access it through other means—and that’s not where they’re stopping.

Every attack on Medicaid is an attack on your ability to make decisions about your own body and your future. This isn’t new—it’s part of a playbook. And we’re not falling for it.

✈️ No One Asked for This: Republicans’ Unprovoked Attacks on Medicaid

Here’s the thing: Americans unequivocally support Medicaid:

And yet, Republican lawmakers are still coming for it. Why? Because it’s never been about budget—it’s about control.

Extremist lawmakers have tried to slash Medicaid every chance they get—from the 2017 repeal of the Affordable Care Act (which included deep cuts to Medicaid) to today’s budget proposals that threaten funding in exchange for billionaire tax breaks. See how your lawmakers voted.

Republicans want to push birth control, IVF, and other reproductive health care out of reach. By targeting a program that allows millions of people across the country to access such care, Trump and his radical cabinet are taking a page right out of Project 2025 to advance their extreme agenda.

The bottom line is: every time they attack Medicaid, they make it harder for you to access birth control and other reproductive health services.

⚠️  The Stakes: How Medicaid Cuts Directly Impact You

If you or someone you know has ever needed birth control, a cancer screening, prenatal care—or might someday—this directly impacts you. 

Medicaid is crucial for low-income communities, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and people with disabilities. Weakening it is a deliberate strategy to limit access to reproductive health care and further marginalize already vulnerable groups.

Cutting Medicaid would have devastating consequences for sexual and reproductive health and could worsen the maternal mortality crisis. 

The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of all high income nations, yet the majority of maternal and infant deaths in the U.S. are preventable.

States with robust access to Medicaid see improved maternal mortality rates because more people have continuous access to the care they need before, during, and after pregnancy.

Black women are disproportionally harmed. Black women are dying at 3-4 times the rate of white women during and after childbirth. While Medicaid pays for 40% of births generally, it pays 65% of births to Black women and birthing people. When they attack Medicaid, they’re attacking your right to safe, affordable reproductive health care.

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Everybody should have access to the reproductive health care they need—whether it’s birth control, abortion, prenatal care, or anything in between.

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