{"id":44496,"date":"2019-03-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-leave-title-x-and-my-body-alone\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:00:00","slug":"opinion-leave-title-x-and-my-body-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-leave-title-x-and-my-body-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Leave Title X and my body alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title X is one of the few positive cornerstones of our American health care system. And it&rsquo;s working.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my adult life, thanks to Title X, my reproductive organs are the only parts of my body that have always had access to health care.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-time-to-place-power-lines-underground-in-juneau-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Opinion: Time to place power lines underground in Juneau, US]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Because of Title X, I&rsquo;ve never had to worry about whether I could afford the basic care I need: I&rsquo;m talking about pap smears, cancer screenings and STD testing. In times when I&rsquo;ve not had insurance, I&rsquo;ve paid what I could afford because of Title X.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&rsquo;s commercial fishing, studying for my PhD, or now working in an office, Title X and Planned Parenthood have always been there for me, helping me to achieve my full potential as an American, as an Alaskan and as a woman.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-congress-needs-more-members-like-sen-murkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Opinion: Congress needs more members like Sen. Murkowski]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s proposed gag rule would block thousands of the most vulnerable Alaskans from getting basic health care.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave Title X and my body alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Figus,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anchorage<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title X is not broken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44496"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}