Opinion: Contraception is quietly under siege at the Department of Health and Human Services
The Trump administration owes all Americans answers to questions about what is going on at HHS. We aren't holding our breath for its reply, but are doing something about it.
In mid-January, anti-abortion activist Teresa Manning Wagner, the deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Population Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services, was after supposedly resigning her post. Her acting replacement, Valerie Huber, has working against birth control programs and advocating for abstinence-only programs; she had no government experience before joining HHS last summer. HHS is in publishing guidelines for the Title X grant program that provides free and low-cost birth control to 4 million low-income people annually. And to make matters worse,.
