This Is How Women Are Protesting TrumpCare

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by Rebecca Cope |
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Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump succeeded in putting through his controversial health care bill, which would see ObamaCare, the former president's inclusive health care act, nixed.

As part of the new bill, the 20-24 million people who were able to get access to health coverage in the US under ObamaCare, or the Affordable Care Act, has been placed in jeopardy.

But one of the most upsetting and shocking parts of Trump's new American Health Care Act? It has given insurance companies the right to deny people health care if they have a so-called 'pre-existing' condition.

Not only does this affect cancer-sufferers and those with other illnesses, but it goes one step further in being controversial - by classing things such as post-natal depression, domestic abuse and rape as 'pre-existing' conditions. Even worse - most of these conditions are those that predominantly affect women.

Now, the internet is reacting. Women (and men) around the world have been using the hashtag #IAmAPreExistingCondition to reveal the multitude of conditions that might unfairly prevent them from getting access to health care. Another day, another sexist policy from Trump.

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