Health reform puts women in harm’s way

. policy decisions is offensive and shortsighted. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy encompasses women’s access to full reproductive health care. Infant and maternal morbidity and mortality have decreased dramatically. We should not have to continue the fight for access to abortion and contraception nearly 40 years later.

Will women’s health care continue to be sacrificed with each new implementation phase of the most sweeping health care reform of our lifetime?

If so, the women who lose are our spouses, our daughters, our sisters and our mothers. Putting greater restrictions on women’s comprehensive health care will never put Americans in a winning position.

M. Tracey Brooks is president and CEO of Family Planning Advocates of New York State.