Agenda Comparison Grid Assignment

Identify the Population Health concern you selected.

Abortion Rights

Describe the Population Health concern you selected.

Abortion rights refer to the rights that allow women to conduct safe abortions when they deem that as the best alternative course of action to take. It was the 1973 decision of the United States Supreme Court that established that a pregnant woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion is protected by the Constitution of the United States without the imposition of unreasonable government restrictions (Aiken, 2019). This was in the case of Roe vs Wade.

Administration (President Name)

President Biden

President Trump

Explain how each of the two presidential administrations approached the issue.

Support women's right to choose what to do with their bodies when it comes to abortion and other reproductive options. President Biden has expressed support for the Roe v. Wade ruling. According to President Biden's program, he would pursue an ambitious and comprehensive strategy to improve women's physical and economic security, as well as to ensure that women may fully enjoy their civic rights. He intends to increase economic stability, increase access to health care, stop violence and discrimination against women, and assist women in balancing work and family life. President Biden has stated that his overarching goal is to assist and empower women throughout the world.

President Trump supported repealing Roe v. Wade, and he is firmly opposed to abortion without regards of the situation or the stage of a fetus's development. He believed that aborting a kid should be considered a criminal violation. He pledged to pick Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade if elected president (Cohen et al., 2022). The House of Representatives unanimously enacted a 20-week abortion restriction in 2017, and he welcomed the measure. In addition, in 2017, President Trump signed a law that repealed an Obama administration regulation that protected federal payments for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

Identify the allocations of resources that the current and previous presidents dedicated to this issue.

During his State of the Union address, Vice President Biden promised to restore government money to Planned Parenthood. Since taking office, he has put a stop to the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits federal money from flowing to groups that perform abortions on demand. He has directed US health authorities to immediately explore eliminating limits placed on a domestic family planning program for low-income Americans described as Title X that were put in place by the Trump administration (Sales et al., 2021). President Biden has signed an executive order reopening the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Government regulations that permitted funding for groups such as Planned Parenthood were challenged by President Trump. His administration also announced two guidelines in October 2017 that were intended to undermine accessibility to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate (Zhao et al., 2020).

Administration

Which administrative agency (like HHS, CDC, FDA, OHSA) would most likely be responsible for helping you address the healthcare issue you selected? Why is this agency the most helpful?

It is important to note that the CDC is the administrative agency that would help me most in addressing this healthcare issue. The main reason for this is that the CDC has a significant impact on the healthcare practitioners and the general health ministry in the United States. Also, many people have access to the CDC for reliable information (Jagai, 2017). This implies that several people will have access to the information about abortion rights of women. The CDC is Center for Disease Control.

How do you think your selected healthcare issue might get on the presidential agenda? How does it stay there?

I believe that this is an issue which will always be on the table because of its contentious nature, the protests that have taken place at abortion clinics, the dangers that abortion workers face, and the fact that unintended pregnancies are a huge problem. As a result, these topics continue to be in the forefront of Americans' minds because there is a significant difference over whether or not this should be an option for women.

Who would you choose to be the entrepreneur/ champion/sponsor (this can be a celebrity, a legislator, an agency director, or others) of the healthcare issue you selected? An example is Michael J. Fox a champion for Parkinson’s disease.

For this specific issue, I would choose NARAL to be the sponsor of the publication. This is a pro-choice group that advocates for the right to reproductive rights for all people.