To mark National Women’s Health Week 2025, which runs from May 11 to 17, 2025, the White House released a statement from the President on May 12 that was nothing more than a narrow-minded, partisan release.

Rather than focusing on actual and vital women’s health issues, such as safe, affordable, and unbiased access to basic medical care, full access to reproductive health services in every state, and a myriad of other worthy women’s issues, the President used the opportunity to divide the country further.

The statement starts with the ever-present Republic talking point of attacking the LGBTQ2S+ community for what they call “gender extremism.”

What that actually has to do with women’s health issues is not exactly clear.

The reality is that, as the Commonwealth Fund found, women in the U.S. have among the lowest rates of access to a regular doctor or place of care and among the highest rates of unnecessary emergency room visits.

Additionally, women in the United States cannot afford healthcare. Women in the U.S. have among the highest rates, and in some cases the highest rate, of skipping or delaying needed care because of the cost and having medical bill problems, as the Commonwealth Fund also noted.

However, rather than focusing on actually addressing such issues, this Administration continues to spin more talking points.

The statement touts the ‘Make America Healthy Again Commission’, the White House states that the Nation’s health crisis stems from “poor nutrition and chronic diseases to preventable conditions, and that they will advance food transparency, promote physical fitness, and restore health education.

It is a bit rich for this Administration to point to poor nutrition as a root cause of women’s health issues, while simultaneously cutting SNAP benefits (see: Administration looks to break food security program).

How can women access quality food if they cannot afford it, and the program designed to assist them is being gutted by this Administration?

The statement then goes on to talk about the “historic steps that have been taken to lower prescription drug prices, including capping the cost of insulin and expanding access to low-cost generics.”

However, prescription drug prices continue to rise. Just yesterday, the Consumer Price Index revealed that the cost of prescription drugs increased by 0.4 percent in April compared to March. Furthermore, medical care rose 2.7 percent year-over-year.

Women are not seeing the impact of the Administration’s ‘historic steps,’ healthcare is still costing them more, which means that women, especially of lower economic status, continue to have less access to quality, safe healthcare.

Ultimately, this Administration is just focused on spouting nonsensical talking points aimed at pleasing Trump’s base.

Unfortunately for women in America, that will do little to improve their health outcomes.