2013-02-27 Introduced in Senate Expresses support for efforts to: (1) ensure that women have access to contraception, other preventive services, and medically accurate information necessary to make health care decisions; (2) ensure that women who rely on the family planning and related preventive health grant programs of the Public Health Service Act, title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and non-profit providers like Planned Parenthood continue to get cancer screenings, birth control, and other essential health care services; (3) ensure that women have access to affordable insurance coverage for all pregnancy-related health care needs; and (4) reduce health disparities between men and women and among women of different races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations.

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