Kanye West's Full Frontal, God-Complex Attack on Poor Women Is A Gift to Trump

Finally, a truthful, fair and balanced article about the reality of bipolar disdorder on the person who has it -- Kanye West, in this case; -- the spouse or partner -- Kim Kardashian; and the community at large.

Haven Kimmel, writing for Vanity Fair, addresses Kanye's community of enablers; those who judge Kim K (boy, have I been reading those comments, that this is her fault for not understanding and supporting Kanye's brilliance); and collateral damage to the community at large

In this case, that community would be women generally -- now that Planned Parenthood is Kanye West's boogey man (This extension is my own view, not the author's).

Poor women, in particular, are the innocent victims of Kanye's wrath, since PP is the primary source of health care for poor women in America, at a time when abortion is at an all-time low.

As someone who knows this bipolar condition very well and the total devastation it can wreak untreated on family as a daughter and in marriage as a wife (a common transition statistically), I have plunged into despair listening to Kanye West become the self-appointed God in charge of women's bodies this week.

What's sadder is to watch his fans and friends behave as if "poor Kanye" is the only focus of community concern. And that Kim K is somehow responsible for this situation, and now white women, in particular, with our embrace of so-called racial genocide in our support for Planned Parenthood.

Note that many men and women on Kanye's Twitter are pushing back against his attacks. I want to acknowledge that fact.

Poor women can barely support living in Trumplandia with their existing children. For Kanye West to wield his metaphorical axe against them in his own public spectacle is borderline too much to handle.

Kanye West has no right, no business telling women to have as many babies as possible. It IS NOT HIS BUSINESS.

Creatives are particularly unwilling to accept treatment for the disease, believing that anything that threatens to diminish creativity is not acceptable to them. And protecting their genius is more important than destroying the lives of others, in the eyes of many modern people.

Kanye's roadkill counts for NOTHING. And if I read one more article from a health professional who writes all about how we must support Kanye and find compassion WITHOUT mentioning this larger issue of his victims, I will spit tacks, if you get my drift.

This article is fair, balanced and digs deeper than most I've read. ~ Anne

Mary Alice Carter Leads New Equity Forward, Monitoring Women's Reproductive Health Care Rights At HHS

Valerie Huber (L), VP Mike Pence, Teresa Manning (R)

Teresa Manning, the controversial official in charge of the Title X federal family planning program, was escorted from the Department of Health and Human Services premises 10 days ago. Manning's initial HHS appointment was a gut punch to ALL Dem women activists and some Republicans, too.

I can imagine Sen. Murkowski and Collin registering major complaints that her office was running more than two months behind schedule in approving states' family-planning grants. That's because Manning doesn't believe in family planning unless it's done naturally with temperature taking and abstinence. Imagine that in 2018 America, Trump is determined to take away women's right to birth control. 

Valerie Huber is not much better for women, but at least Huber knows that she, too, can get the boot by taking away women's access to birth control. Acting Huber is a social conservative who has actively supported the failed abstinence-only sex educations programs in schools. She is equally skeptical about birth control. 

Hearings opened for on Jan. 9 for HHS nominee Alex Azar to replace Tom Price as HHS Secretary. Women's health groups launched a full-scale confrontation around women's reproductive health -- clearly under assault by the Trump administration. The issues go far beyond abortion rights and into contraception. Trump has stacked HHS with women who don't believe in birth control. 

Mary Alice Carter Leads Equity Forward

A new group Equity Forward will be acting as a watchdog focused on reproductive health care at the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Mary Alice Carter, the executive director of Equity Forward, which officially launched Friday, said the nonpartisan group will hold accountable organizations and individuals they argue limit access to reproductive health care.

Its first project, HHS watch, will include a full audit of decision makers at the agency, investigating their public positions relating to reproductive health, their backgrounds and alliances, and then monitoring their actions at HHS.

“Americans deserve to know when their government is hiring people with backgrounds antithetical to the mission of the offices in which they serve,” Carter said.

“The reason we exist is because there hasn’t been an organization like this up until now, and there are ways that organizations, entities and individuals have been able to act without full transparency.”

Equity Forward takes issue with political appointees at HHS that have worked for anti-abortion groups or have made critical comments in the past about some types of contraception.

“Instead of hiring qualified public health professionals, the administration has put anti-contraception political activists in charge of four million women’s birth control access,” Carter said.