Biden says healthy women help US prosperity

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden mentioned Wednesday that he’s “so proud” {that a} women’s health research initiative he launched final 12 months at his spouse’s urging has already invested practically $1 billion as a result of a wholesome feminine inhabitants improves U.S. prosperity.

“That’s a reality,” he mentioned in closing remarks on the first White Home Convention on Girls’s Well being Analysis. “We haven’t gotten that by means of to the opposite group but,” Biden mentioned, referencing President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration.

Trump’s three conservative nominees to the Supreme Court docket from his first time period as president voted to overturn a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats campaigned on reproductive rights and ladies’s well being points on this 12 months’s elections.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump’s transition group, mentioned the president-elect will maintain his promise to enhance well being within the U.S.

“President Trump campaigned on making America wholesome once more for ALL Individuals together with males, girls, and kids, and he’ll ship on that promise,” Leavitt mentioned in an e mail.

Girls make up half of the U.S. inhabitants, about 168 million folks, however medical analysis into their distinctive well being circumstances has largely been underfunded and understudied, officers have mentioned.

Jill Biden has mentioned she introduced the concept for the White Home Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis to the president after Maria Shriver, herself a girls’s well being advocate and member of the influential Kennedy political household, introduced it to her.

The primary girl advised the researchers, advocates, and enterprise and philanthropic leaders attending the convention that she is going to maintain urgent the difficulty after she leaves her function.

“My work doesn’t cease in January when Joe and I depart this home,” she mentioned. “I’ll maintain constructing alliances, like those that introduced us right here right now, and I’ll maintain pushing for funding for modern analysis.”

The primary girl mentioned the U.S. economic system loses about $1.8 billion in working time yearly due to how menopause impacts girls. And he or she is occupied with studying extra about excessive morning illness throughout being pregnant.

“I heard this a pair weeks in the past and I used to be notably as a result of my very own granddaughter was going by means of the identical factor, ’trigger we’re going to be great-grandparents,” Jill Biden mentioned.

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