Bioethics

Tom Price Endangers Women’s Health

By Allison K. Hoffman In today’s NYTimes, Jill Horwitz and I have an Op-Ed describing why Donald Trump’s selection of Tom Price for secretary of health and human services is a particular threat to women’s health. Read it here! From the Op-Ed: With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald…

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By Allison K. Hoffman

In today’s NYTimes, Jill Horwitz and I have an Op-Ed describing why Donald Trump’s selection of Tom Price for secretary of health and human services is a particular threat to women’s health. Read it here!

From the Op-Ed:

With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health of American women.

It is regrettable, but not surprising, that Mr. Trump has nominated a strident opponent of abortion. It is also no surprise that Mr. Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, earned a zero rating from Planned Parenthood, an organization he’d like to defund, despite its role in providing preventive health services. […]

Read the full article here!

About the author

  • Allison K. Hoffman

    Allison K. Hoffman, J.D., is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Before joining Penn Law, she was on the faculty at the UCLA School of Law and was a Petrie-Flom fellow at Harvard Law School.