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( The Economist July 15TH - 21ST)
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Directions: Rearrange the given five sentences A, B, C, D, E and F in the paragraph sequence so as to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer the questions given below them.
A. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life.
B. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough.
C. Education is not an end, but a means to an end.
D. In many modern countries it has for sometimes been fashionable to think that by free education for all, one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation.
E. In other words wed o not educate children only for the purpose of educating them, the purpose is to fit them for life.
F. We find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill.
1. Which of the following should be the FIRST sentence?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E
2. Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence?
(a) A (b) B (c) D (d) E (e) F
3. Which of the following should be the THIRD sentence?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) E (e) F
4. Which of the following should be the FIFTH sentence?
(a) B (b) C (c) D (d) E (e) F
5. Which of the following should be the LAST sentence?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) E (e) F
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1. Whatever be the work (a) / that which you undertake (b) / put your best efforts (c) / in it (d) / no error (e)
2. I will put on (a) / a note in this regard (b) / for your consideration (c) / and necessary decision (d) / no error (e)
3. All the doctors were (a) / puzzled on the (b) / strange symptoms (c) / reported by the patient (d) / no error (e)
4. He has been working on (a) / the problem from a long time (b) / but is still not (c) / able to solve it (d) / no error (e)
5. The detective says that (a) / there is no chance for (b) / finding the person (c) / who wrote these letters (d) / no error (e)
6. Rekha was trying for admission (a) / in the Engineering College (b) / even though her parents wanted (c) / her to take up medicine.
7. He fixed a metal ladder (a) / for the wall below his window (b) / so as to be able to (c) / escape if there was a fire (d) / no error (e)
8. Several prominent figures (a) / involved in the scandal (b) / are required to appear (c) / to the investigation committee (d) / no error (e)
9. He grow up the way (a) / many young children grow up (b) / pampered, adored (c) / and inwardly tortured (d) / no error (e)
10. He pulled his lips together, (a) / close his eyes (b) / and I watched the first teardrop (c) / fall down the side of his cheek (d) / no error (e)
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In economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is (1) by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing, (2) of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real-estate market also usually (3) before a recession. However, real-estate declines can last much longer than recessions. During an economic decline, high-(4) stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco (5) to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to (6).
In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economics downturn. These (7) high oil prices, which led to (8) high food prices due to dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an (9) to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis leading to the drastic bankruptcy of large and well (10) investment banks as well as commercial banks in various, diverse nations around the world; increased unemployment; and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.
1.
(A) imagined
(B) depict
(C) shown
(D) visualized
(E) characterized
2.
(A) increase
(B) variance
(C) more
(D) decrease
(E) abundance
3.
(A) weakens
(B) initiates
(C) awakens
(D) strengthens
(E) volatile
4.
(A) maintained
(B) yield
(C) heavy
(D) result
(E) payment
5.
(A) are
(B) want
(C) tend
(D) yearn
(E) made
6.
(A) distribute
(B) recover
(C) wait
(D) increased
(E) fight
7.
(A) meant
(B) show
(C) numbered
(D) included
(E) encompass
8.
(A) fearful
(B) dangerous
(C) abnormally
(D) healthy
(E) nutritious
9.
(A) alternative
(B) variant
(C) substitute
(D) element
(E) integral
10.
(A) wealthy
(B) costly
(C) stand
(D) created
(E) established
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1.A new-born infant’s ……. Skills are not fully ………, for it cannot discern images more than 10 inches away.
(a) perceptual ,stimulated
(b) visual , developed
(c) descriptive , ripened
(d) olfactory ,shared
(e) average , familiar
2.It is said that as a legal team Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall Complemented
each other thoroughtly: Houston’s sedate manner was ………. Marshall’s ……… .
(a) analogous to , trepidation
(b) commensurate with , formality
(c) tempered by , joculartiy
(d)adverse to , gregariousness
(e) superseded by , inquisitiveness
3.In a society that abhors …….., the nonconformist is persistently ……… .
(a) creativity , glorified
(b) rebelliousnesss , suppressed
(c) insurgency , heeded
(d) smugness , persecuted
(e) stagnation , denigrated
4.Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar, far from being a tight, …… Narrative, is instead …….. novel that roams freely and imaginatively over a halfmillion
(a) traditional , a chronological
(b) provocative , an insensitive
(c) forceful , a concise
(d) focused , an expansive
(e) circuitous , a discursive
5.Just when the senator’s opponent had …… the lead in popularity polls, public opinion ……., as a result, the incumbent senator regained her frontrunner position.
(a) taken , stabilized
(b) challenged , waned
(c) captured , shifted
(d) conceded , vacillated
(e) relinquished , changed
6.The board members, accustomed to the luxury of being chauffeured to
corporate meetings in company limousines, were predictably ….. when they learned that this service had been …… .
(a) satisfied , annulled
(b) stymied , extended
(c) displeased , upheld
(d) disgruntled , suspended
(e) concerned , provided
7.Only if business continues to expand can it …….. enough new jobs to make up for those that will be ……… by automation.
(a) produce , required
(b) invent , introduced
(c) create , eliminated
(d) repeal , reduced
(e) formulate , engendered
8.Many people find Stanley Jorden’s music not only entertaining but also …….., listening to it helps them to relax and to ……. The tensions they feel at the end of a trying day.
(a) soothing , heighten
(b) therapeutic , heighten
(c) sweet , underscore
(d) exhausting , relieve
(e) interesting , activate
9.He ……… the practices of aggressive autograph seekers, arguing that anyone distinguished enough to merit such ……. Also deserved to be treated courteously.
(a) decried , adulation
(b) defended , adoration
(c) endorsed , brusqueness
(d) ignored , effrontery
(e) vilified , disdain
10.Both ……. And ……..,Wilson seldom spoke and never spent money.
(a) vociferous , generous
(b) garrulous , stingy
(c) effusive , frugal
(d) taciturn , miserly
(e) reticent , munificent
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Answers:
1. ANS‐ E
This statement provides an explanation of why highly advertised products did indeed rank high on certain measures of product quality.
2. ANS‐ C
The passage shows how the frequency and the kind of advertising influence consumers’ perceptions about the quality of the products advertised.
3. ANS‐ B
It can be inferred that consumers’ perceptions of product quality are influenced by the use of color in an advertisement and by the frequency of the advertisement’s appearance.
4. ANS‐ A
Consumers find color advertising excessive more quickly and thus can be expected to find black‐and‐white advertising excessive less quickly.
5. ANS‐ D
Excessive advertising may lead consumers to believe that the manufacturer lacks confidence in the quality of the product.
6. ANS‐ C
7. ANS‐ D
8. Ans‐ D
The words are Synonym.
PERILOUS ‐full of danger or risk.
treacherous ‐guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.
9. Ans‐ D
NASCENT ‐(especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future
potential.
Initial‐ is the Synonym for given word.
10. Ans‐ A
PROSCRIBE ‐forbid, especially by law.
‘Allow’ is the antonym for given word.
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Directions (Q.1‐10) Each of the reading comprehension questions is based on the content of a passage. After reading the passage, answer all questions pertaining to it on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage. For each question, select the best answer of the choices given.
According to economic signaling theory, consumers may perceive the frequency with which an unfamiliar brand is advertised as a cue that the brand is of high quality. The notion that highly advertised brands are associated with high‐quality products does
have some Empirical evidence. Marquardt and McGann found that heavily advertised
products did indeed rank high on certain measures of product quality. Because large advertising expenditures represent a significant investment on the part of a manufacturer, only companies that expect to recoup these costs in the long run,
through consumers’ repeat purchases of the product, can afford to spend such
amounts. However, two studies by Kirmani have found that although consumers initially perceive expensive advertising as a signal of high brand quality, at some level of spending the manufacturer’s advertising effort may be perceived as unreasonably high, implying low manufacturer confidence in product quality. If consumers perceive excessive
advertising effort as a sign of a manufacturer’s desperation, the result may be less favorable brand perceptions. In addition, the third study by Kirmani, of print advertisements, found that the use of color affected consumer perception of brand
quality. Because consumers recognize that color advertisements are more expensive than black and white, the point at which repetition of an advertisement is
perceived as excessive comes sooner for a color advertisement than for a black‐and‐white advertisement.
1. Which of the following best describes the purpose of the sentences written in bold and italics?
(A) To show that economic signaling theory fails to explain a finding
(B) To introduce a distinction not accounted for by economic signaling theory
(C) To account for an exception to a generalization suggested by Marquardt and McGann
(D) To explain why Marquardt and McGann’s research was conducted
(E) To offer an explanation for an observation reported by Marquardt and McGann
2. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) present findings that contradict one explanation for the effects of a particular advertising practice
(B) argue that theoretical explanations about the effects of a particular advertising practice are of limited value
without empirical evidence
(C) discuss how and why particular advertising practices may affect consumers’ perceptions
(D) contrast the research methods used in two different studies of a particular advertising practice
(E) explain why a finding of consumer responses to a particular advertising practice was unexpected
3. Kirmani’s research, as described in the passage, suggests which of the following regarding consumers’ expectations about the quality of advertised products?
(A) Those expectations are likely to be highest if a manufacturer runs both black‐and‐white and color advertisements for the same product.
(B) Those expectations can be shaped by the presence of color in an advertisement as well as by the frequency with which an advertisement appears.
(C) Those expectations are usually high for frequently advertised new brands but not for
frequently advertised familiar brands.
(D) Those expectations are likely to be higher for products whose black‐and‐white advertisements are often repeated than for those whose color advertisements are less often repeated.
(E) Those expectations are less definitively shaped by the manufacturer’s advertisements than by information that consumers gather from other sources.
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Mr. Trump, however, dramatically expanded the gag rule’s scope, so that it now applies to all foreign health assistance programs — affecting more than $8.8 billion in funding, instead of just $600 million. As Scott Evertz, Mr. Bush’s former AIDS czar, told me in January, Mr. Bush didn’t do that because he knew it would hamstring Pepfar, the president’s signature H.I.V./AIDS initiative.
“It would have been impossible to treat H.I.V./AIDS in the developing world,” Mr. Evertz said, “if the global gag rule were to be applied to the thousands of organizations with which those of us involved in Pepfar would be working.”
Mr. Trump, however, shows no sign of caring about Pepfar. Indeed, his draft budget would cut the program by more than $1 billion, which experts say could lead to a million deaths. The president appears similarly indifferent to H.I.V./AIDS in the United States. In June, six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on H.I.V./AIDS quit, writing in Newsweek: “The Trump administration has no strategy to address the ongoing H.I.V./AIDS epidemic, seeks zero input from experts to formulate H.I.V. policy, and — most concerning — pushes legislation that will harm people living with H.I.V. and halt or reverse important gains made in the fight against this disease.”
Although Mr. Trump has not yet been able to eviscerate Planned Parenthood, he has already taken steps to damage it. On April 13, the president signed a law repealing an Obama-era rule protecting Planned Parenthood from state efforts to withhold money allocated by Title X, the only federal program expressly devoted to family planning. (Planned Parenthood cares for about a third of the four million Americans served by Title X.) Adding insult to injury, the official appointed by Mr. Trump to oversee Title X is an anti-abortion activist named Teresa Manning, who has said that contraception “doesn’t work.”
Ms. Manning isn’t the only anti-abortion, anti-contraception advocate Mr. Trump has brought into the federal government. Another is Charmaine Yoest, the former president of Americans United for Life, who has been made assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. Katy Talento, who has written attacks on birth control pills for a right-wing blog, sits on Mr. Trump’s Domestic Policy Council. The Trump administration has also appointed Valerie Huber, a former president of Ascend, an association that promotes abstinence education, to be chief of staff to the assistant secretary for health.
Then there’s Mr. Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Tom Price, who has claimed that “there’s not one” woman in America who is unable to afford contraception. Together, these hires represent a familiar Trump administration strategy: putting people in charge of government programs whose goal is to dismantle them.
The influence of the Trump administration’s anti-contraception views is very apparent in a draft regulation, recently leaked to Vox, that would drastically expand the number of employers allowed to opt out of birth control coverage in their insurance plans. If enacted, the rule will allow any employer, even large, publicly traded corporations, to refuse to cover birth control simply by citing a moral objection.
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" The Spirit of Liu Xiaobo "
How Liu Xiaobo died says a lot about modern China and the fears of modern Chinese leaders. The government in Beijing controls a nuclear weapons arsenal and throws its weight around in international affairs. Yet it was afraid to hear the democratic ideas advocated at great cost by a courageous man of conscience.
In 2009, Mr. Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and even after he learned he had liver cancer in May, Chinese authorities refused to let him leave the country for treatment. So one of China’s most famous dissidents died on Thursday under guard in a Chinese hospital at age 61. He was his country’s only Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
As is common in an increasingly repressive China, Mr. Liu was punished not for a crime, but for giving voice to the most basic human yearnings. In 2008, he was a leader in drafting Charter 08, a constitutional reform manifesto that advocated respect for “universal values shared by all humankind,” including human rights, equality, freedom, democracy and the rule of law. The charter endorsed direct elections, judicial independence and an end to Communist Party dominance, and though it was on the internet only briefly before censors pulled it, it garnered 10,000 signatures.
The government accused Mr. Liu of “inciting subversion of state power,” but in fact the life of this multitalented scholar, writer, poet and social commentator was devoted to peaceful political change. During the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, he staged a hunger strike, then negotiated a peaceful retreat of student demonstrators as thousands of soldiers stood by with rifles.
Mr. Liu was detained many times after that. Yet when Beijing pressed the Norwegian Nobel Committee not to honor him, the committee wisely awarded Mr. Liu the 2010 Peace Prize in recognition of “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China.”
There are reasons to question whether the detention prevented him from being diagnosed early enough and from receiving medical treatment that could have extended his life. On Saturday as he weakened, two Western doctors who were allowed to examine him pronounced Mr. Liu fit to travel overseas for care, but still China refused, seeking to control the man and message until the end.
The authorities also ignored dozens of writers and Nobel laureates who signed petitions calling for Mr. Liu’s release. His final days were spent in a hospital under guard, unable to communicate with the outside world. Meanwhile, authorities filmed him lying still in his bed, then released the footage without his permission for propaganda purposes.
Western leaders, perhaps cowed by President Xi Jinping’s obvious distaste for hectoring on human rights, were unacceptably subdued before Mr. Liu’s death, mostly leaving comments about his case to lower-ranking officials. None were more callow than President Trump, who since taking office has shown little interest in human rights while enthusiastically embracing many authoritarian leaders, including Mr. Xi.
Mr. Trump did not raise Mr. Liu’s case when he met Mr. Xi in Germany last week. And within hours of Mr. Liu’s death, Mr. Trump, asked at a news conference in Paris to give his impression of Mr. Xi, heaped praise on him, calling him a “very good man” who “wants to do what’s right for China.” Some American officials, including Nikki Haley, the ambassador to the United Nations, hailed Mr. Liu’s contribution, but Mr. Trump’s words in Paris signaled to Beijing that it need not listen. Regardless of Mr. Trump, other world leaders should join human rights groups in insisting that Beijing release Mr. Liu’s wife, the poet Liu Xia, who has been under police surveillance since 2010, and let her move to the country of her choice.
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Answers Key With Explanations:
1. (b) ‘That which’ is redundant; simply ‘that’ will do.
2. (a) The phrase ‘put on’ means ‘wear’ or ‘apply’. It should be ‘put in’ here; ‘put in’ means ‘submit’ a request, claim.
3. (b) The correct preposition is to be used. One is puzzled ‘by’ something, and not ‘on’ it.
4. (b) The correct preposition is to be used. We work on something ‘for’ some time.
5. (b) ‘Of’ is the correct preposition; it should replace ‘for’.
6. (e) No error.
7. (b) A ladder is fixed ‘to’ the wall, not ‘for’ it. If instead of ‘fixed’, the word used is ‘placed’ the preposition would be ‘against’.
8. (d) One appears ‘before’ an investigation committee, not ‘to’ it.
9. (a) A past tense should be used in the first part of the sentence to maintain the correct tense form.
10. (b) Use ‘closed’, not ‘close’. The past tense verb should be used throughout.
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1. e
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. c
6. b
7. d
8. c
9. a
10.e
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1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (b)
4. (d)
5.(c)
6.(d)
7. (c)
8. (b)
9. (a)
10. (d)
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4. Kirmani’s third study, as described in the passage, suggests which of the following conclusions about a black‐andwhite advertisement?
(A) It can be repeated more frequently than a comparable color advertisement could before consumers begin to suspect low manufacturer confidence in the quality of the advertised product.
(B) It will have the greatest impact on consumers’ perceptions of the quality of the advertised product if it appears during periods when a color version of the same advertisement is also being used.
(C) It will attract more attention from readers of the print publication in which it appears if it is used only a few times.
(D) It may be perceived by some consumers as more expensive than a comparable color advertisement.
(E) It is likely to be perceived by consumers as a sign of higher manufacturer confidence in the quality of the advertised product than a comparable color advertisement would be.
5. The passage suggests that Kirmani would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about consumers’ perceptions of the relationship between the frequency with which a product is advertised and the product’s quality?
(A) Consumers’ perceptions about the frequency with which an advertisement appears are their primary consideration when evaluating an advertisement’s claims about product quality.
(B) Because most consumers do not notice the frequency of advertisement, it has little impact on most consumers’ expectations regarding product quality.
(C) Consumers perceive frequency of advertisement as a signal about product quality only when the advertisement is a product that is newly on the market.
(D) The frequency of advertisement is not always perceived by consumers to indicate that manufacturers are highly confident about their products’ quality.
(E) Consumers who try a new product that has been frequently advertised are likely to perceive the advertisement’s frequency as having been an accurate indicator of the product’s quality.
6. What does the phrase mean ‘Empirical Evidence’ as used in the given paragraph?
(A) It means to destroy the evidence
(B) It represents the utopian phenomenon
(C) Empirical evidence is information acquired by observation or experimentation.
(D) Empirical evidence is factual, concrete and data based information.
(E) None of these.
7. what does the word ‘Recoup’ meant in this paragraph?
(A) obsolete information
(B) lost in translation
(C) having acquired a lot of knowledge
(D) regain (money spent) through subsequent profits.
(E) None of these.
Directions (Q.8‐10): In each of the following questions, five options are given, of which one word is the most nearly the same or opposite in meaning to the given word in the question. Find the correct option having either same or opposite meaning.
8.PERILOUS
(A) Benign
(B) brazen
(C) bucolic
(D) treacherous
(E) reiterate
9. NASCENT
(A) deplete
(B) cavil
(C) gluttony
(D) initial
(E) whim
10. PROSCRIBE
(A) Allow
(B) prone
(C) intrepid
(D)mural
(E) doleful
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This could result in hundreds of thousands of women losing contraceptive coverage. As the American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out, the rule makes a shamelessly bad-faith argument, asserting that no woman would go without coverage, since she could always rely on Medicaid or Title X — even as both of those programs are being targeted by the administration for funding freezes or cuts.
Poor women will bear the brunt of this administration’s policies on sexual and reproductive health, but millions more women will feel the pain as well. Under Republican plans, Americans with private insurance stand to lose coverage for birth control, abortion and maternity care. If Planned Parenthood were to lose the 40 percent of its budget that comes from federal funding, it would result in a rash of clinic closings nationwide, depriving women of access whether or not they’re on Medicaid.
And there is the very real possibility that Roe v. Wade could be overturned during Mr. Trump’s tenure. The president’s first Supreme Court appointee, Neil Gorsuch, has already staked out a place well to the right of the conservative chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr. Should Mr. Trump have the chance to replace one of the five justices committed to upholding Roe — two of whom are in their 80s — we will once again see the widespread criminalization of abortion in this country.
Already, Mr. Trump’s administration has ushered in a dangerous new zeal among the most radical anti-abortion groups. Usually, violence and threats of violence against abortion providers crescendo during Democratic administrations, when the anti-abortion movement feels shut out of policy making, and subside when Republicans are in control. (Every assassination of an abortion provider has occurred when a Democrat was in the White House.)
That dynamic has changed. The president of the National Abortion Federation, Vicki Saporta, told me that she has been surprised to see a “dramatic increase” in threats and death wishes directed at abortion providers since the election. She links it to the broader climate of rage in the country. “There seems to be a free-for-all in terms of hate speech against all different kinds of groups,” she said.
On May 13, 10 members of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue National) were arrested as they locked arms to block the door of the last abortion clinic in Kentucky, in Louisville. According to duVergne Gaines, the director of the National Clinic Access Project at the Feminist Majority Foundation, this was the first attempted blockade in 13 years.
Abortion rights activists fear an intensified siege at the same clinic this month, when Operation Save America holds its national conference in Louisville. They suspect that the group might be testing the ground to see whether the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions will enforce the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which imposes criminal penalties for abortion clinic blockades. The group clearly feels emboldened by the election outcome.
“Trump is a tremor compared to the earthquake coming,” wrote Operation Save America’s director in a recent leadership report.
This cumulative attack on women’s ability to control their reproductive lives would be infuriating no matter who presided over it. But there’s an extra shudder of degradation in losing reproductive rights at the hands of a lubricious playboy like Mr. Trump. Unlike longtime anti-abortion activists, Mr. Trump doesn’t bother pretending he’s acting in women’s best interests. Hence his frank admission during a town-hall meeting last year that if abortion were banned, women having abortions would have to be subject to “some form of punishment.”
There is no veneer in this administration of “compassionate conservatism” or of promoting a “culture of life.” There is simply power and convenience: Mr. Trump doesn’t care about women’s health or rights, and it’s easy to outsource policy to the activists of the religious right who helped elect him. When you’re the president, they let you do it.
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" The Playboy President and Women’s Health "
Donald Trump’s name adorned the first casino in America to have an in-house strip club. He is the first American president to have made a cameo appearance in a soft-core pornography film, and he has called his struggle to avoid sexually transmitted diseases while sleeping around his “personal Vietnam.” When Trump the candidate was asked last year whether any of his paramours had had an abortion, he refused to answer.
This is not a man who shares the longtime Republican goal of rolling back the sexual revolution. Nevertheless, after nearly six months in office, Mr. Trump has already surpassed George W. Bush as the American president most hostile to reproductive rights and measures to promote sexual health. There is a deeply insulting irony in this: American women are being stripped of their sexual and reproductive autonomy not by a moralizing puritan but by an erotically incontinent libertine.
This will be true whether or not the Republicans’ health care plan ever passes — though that plan, with its multifaceted attack on obstetric and gynecological care, is a particularly bald expression of contempt for women. There are differences between the bill that passed in the House and the one that may or may not make its way through the Senate. But both could be said to accomplish legislatively what Mr. Trump boasted, in the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, that he likes to do to women physically.
That assault includes blocking Planned Parenthood from collecting Medicaid reimbursements for a year. This would force the more than half of Planned Parenthood clients who rely on the program to seek care elsewhere, whether or not alternatives exist. (In many places, they don’t.) Medicaid itself, which pays for half of American births, would be severely cut. States would be allowed to let insurers opt out of guaranteeing coverage for maternity care. Tax penalties would restrict individuals and small businesses from buying private insurance plans that cover abortion. And the Senate bill, which would free some insurance plans to charge co-pays for preventive care, would end Obamacare’s guarantee of no-cost birth control.
It’s worth noting that even President Bush, a born-again evangelical Christian, never tried to defund Planned Parenthood in the United States (though he did cut off funding for the group’s foreign affiliates). This wasn’t because Mr. Bush was moderate but because 10 years ago, the idea of ending Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood was so far from the mainstream that even a very conservative, anti-abortion president would not champion the cause.
No one thinks that Mr. Trump personally disapproves of Planned Parenthood. During the presidential campaign, he defended the organization, even though he also promised to cut off its federal funding.
“Millions and millions of women — cervical cancer, breast cancer — are helped by Planned Parenthood,” he said at a Republican debate in February. “I would defund it because I’m pro-life, but millions of women are helped by Planned Parenthood.”
That statement, combined with his evident acceptance of non-procreative sex, made it possible to imagine that he might be marginally better on issues of sexual and reproductive health than other Republicans. Instead, his presidency is proving that cynicism and indifference can be as damaging as fanaticism.
The first sign of how bad Mr. Trump would be on reproductive health came three days after he was sworn in, when he signed a new, souped-up version of the global gag rule. It was inevitable that a Republican president would reinstate this policy, first enacted by Ronald Reagan, prohibiting foreign aid organizations receiving family planning funding from making abortion referrals or lobbying for abortion law reform.
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