Looking forward: Can we reverse the damage done by the political games the Bush Administration played with reproductive health?

For the last eight years, there have been many occasions where the Bush Administration has dangerously allowed politics and religion to trump science. In the reproductive health context, these situations are damaging to the public's health, and have created political barriers and borders to obtaining reproductive health information and care. One glaring example is the administration's push for millions of dollars to fund abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, despite a federally-funded study that concluded that such programs are ineffective. So now that the curtain is about to close on the Bush Administration, can we reverse its legacy? Though the answer depends in large part on who moves into the White House, there are ways in which we can begin to think about repairing the damage caused in the last eight years. Tools we can use include reversal of or additional Executive Orders, legislative change, and litigation.