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Your handy-dandy presidential public health voter's guide

If you care about public health and can't decide between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, this review of their positions may help.

So here we are. A day we'll all remember at the end of a campaign we'd soon like to forget. In hours this will all be over. Seriously!

Women's Health

Clinton
It was more than 20 years ago, at the United Nations Conference on Women that Clinton said that "human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all," and her campaign builds on that rhetoric. Says that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. Wants to repeal Hyde Amendment that bans federal funding for abortion. Supports paid family leave and closing the pay gap between women and men. Seeks greater protection for women against domestic violence.

Trump
Says abortion should be illegal except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of a pregnant woman is endangered. Wants to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. Has called to punish women who obtain illegal abortions. Has been on both sides of the pay gap issue. Has bragged about and been accused of sexually assaulting women (which he denies).

Climate Change

Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns will lead to spread of vector-borne diseases and increase in air quality and heat related morbidity and mortality.

Clinton
Has repeatedly stated that climate change is real and manmade. Seeks to create clean energy alternatives to reduce carbon emissions and create jobs. Proposes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% (relative to 2005 levels) by 2025. Plans to create a $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge to reduce emissions and develop new clean energy technologies.

Trump
Has called manmade climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Says he will cancel Paris Climate Accords. Has called climate change, "just a very, very expensive form of tax. A lot of people are making a lot of money."

Affordable Care Act

Clinton
Advocates keeping the ACA and reforming it. Plan includes refundable tax credits for health care services, an increase of tax credits for those buying insurance through the ACA marketplace, or exchanges, to decrease costs, and mandating the creation of a public option available in every state's individual insurance market.

Trump
His seven point plan calls for complete repeal of the ACA, legislation that allows people to fully deduct insurance premiums on their taxes, increase competition in the insurance marketplace, and allow consumers access to "safe and dependable drugs from overseas."

Medical Research

Vaccines

LGBT Rights/Health

Health outcomes of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender people, which are significantly worse than the overall population's, are linked to various forms of discrimination.

Clinton
Advocates equality for LGBT Americans, the protection of transgender rights, and the promotion of human rights of LGBT people globally.

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