Questions: Society & Politics

This isn't to make a case, just wanted to see.

Vasectomies are reversible within the first 3-5 years at a 75% rate and the reversibility decreases with time. Female sterilization isn't. The most effective birth controls are implants, IUS, and IUD (around 99%). BC pills are less effective (<95%) if not taken properly.

The Act pushes to outlaw gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth and make it a felony to provide it.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched her new "Protect Children's Innocence Act" on Friday which details that anyone who "knowingly performs any gender-affirming care on a minor" is guilty of a class C felony, carrying a punishment of 10 to 25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000, per a statement given by Greene's office.

In addition to pressing a criminalizing thumb on those providing gender-affirming care to trans youth, the new Act also looks to "prohibit using federal funds for gender-affirming health care, including in Affordable Healthcare Act plans and bar colleges and universities from offering instruction on gender-affirming care."

Marjorie Taylor Greene rolls out "Protect Children’s Innocence Act"

GOP senators vote against PACT act, a bill to help veterans impacted by toxic substances

Republicans Go To Bat For Billionaires Targeted By Democratic Tax Plan

How a 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Traveled for an Abortion Became Part of a Political Firestorm

Florida court rules pregnant 16-year-old not ‘mature’ enough to have an abortion

Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

• Expands Medicare benefits: free vaccines (2023), $35/month insulin (2023) and caps out-of-pocket drug
  costs to an estimated $4,000 or less in 2024 and settling at $2,000 in 2025
• Lowers energy bills: cuts energy bills by $500 to $1,000 per year
• Makes historic climate investment: reduces carbon emissions by roughly 40% by 2030
• Lowers health care costs: saves the average enrollee $800/year in the ACA marketplace, allows Medicare
  to negotiate 100 drugs over the next decade, and requires drug companies to rebate back price increases
  higher than inflation
• Creates manufacturing jobs: more than $60 billion invested will create millions of new domestic clean
  manufacturing jobs
• Invests in disadvantaged communities: cleaning up pollution and taking steps to reducing environmental
  injustice with $60 billion for environmental justice
• Closes tax loopholes used by wealthy: a 15% corporate minimum tax, a 1% fee on stock buybacks and
  enhanced IRS enforcement
• Protects families and small business making $400,000 or less

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

• No More Lead Pipes
• High-Speed Internet Access
• Better Roads and Bridges
• Investments in Public Transit
• Upgrade Airports and Ports
• Investment in Passenger Rail
• Network of Electric Vehicle Chargers
• Upgrade Power Infrastructure
• Resilient Infrastructure
• Investment in Environmental Remediation

CHIPS for America Act & FABS Act

• designed to stop relying on China and India for technology production
• semiconductor manufacturing grants
• research investments
• investment tax credit for chip manufacturing
• supports enactment of an investment tax credit for semiconductor design