{"id":2459,"date":"2018-04-03T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:42:00","slug":"dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Trump Administration\u2019s Removal of Breast Cancer Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A new report from the Sunlight Foundation&rsquo;s Web Integrity Project revealed that the Trump administration&rsquo;s Department of Health and Human Services removed the breast cancer website and related resources from WomensHealth.gov. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-pulse\/2018\/04\/02\/how-a-new-lawsuit-could-shake-up-hospital-consolidation-155680\">POLITICO<\/a>, the site included &ldquo;information about ACA provisions that require coverage of free mammograms for some women&rdquo; and details on a &ldquo;free CDC screening program for low-income women.&rdquo; DNC Women&rsquo;s Media Director Elizabeth Renda issued the following statement in response:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Make no mistake, the Department of Health and Human Services&rsquo; removal of information about life-saving preventative breast cancer treatment from its official site for women&rsquo;s health is yet another example of disregard for women and their health and well-being by the Trump administration. One in eight women in the United States will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastcancer.org\/symptoms\/understand_bc\/statistics\">develop<\/a> breast cancer over the course of her lifetime, and this administration&rsquo;s decision to obscure resources to help protect women from this deadly disease is shameful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The department&rsquo;s paltry excuse for removing this site is truly inexcusable, and this is part of a pattern. Less than two weeks ago, it was revealed that Health and Human Services also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/21\/hhs-strips-lesbian-bisexual-health-content-from-womens-health-website-430123\">stripped<\/a> lesbian and bisexual health content from the same page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Trump administration might be willing to play political games with women&rsquo;s health care to advance their radical agenda, but Democrats will never stop fighting to make quality affordable health care accessible for every woman, man, and child in this country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Sunlight Foundation&rsquo;s Web Integrity Project revealed that the Trump administration&rsquo;s Department of Health and Human Services removed the breast cancer website and related resources from WomensHealth.gov. According to POLITICO, the site included &ldquo;information about ACA provisions that require coverage of free mammograms for some women&rdquo; and details on a &ldquo;free <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Trump Administration\u2019s Removal of Breast Cancer Resources - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-03T16:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-trump-administrations-removal-of-breast-cancer-resources\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Trump Administration\u2019s Removal of Breast Cancer Resources - 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