Doctors worry impending Medicaid cuts will force many pregnant people to drive hundreds of miles for care.
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Amid Hospital Closures, Many Rural Parents Have No Place Left to Give Birth Read Post »
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. The fallout soon made headlines. The Biden-era Department of Justice sued, alleging that the Idaho ban violated a federal law that required hospitals to stabilize people who arrived in their emergency […]
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Idaho Lost One in Three OB/GYNs After Its Abortion Ban Read Post »
On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed a policy change that advocates for reproductive rights say could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide. The department filed a proposed rule seeking to eliminate coverage for the limited abortion services and counseling that have been available to veterans and their beneficiaries under the VA […]
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Trump Administration Moves Quietly to Restrict Life-Saving Abortions for Veterans Read Post »
Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say this leads to the best outcomes for both mothers and babies. But after Dass delivered a healthy daughter, the hospital reported her to the Arizona Department of Child Safety, […]
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They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies. Read Post »
For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]
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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care Read Post »
If the Supreme Court gets involved, it could set national precedent for states to ban medications approved by the FDA.
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Federal Appeals Court Upheld West Virginia Ban on Medication Abortion. Now What? Read Post »
In a case squarely aimed at breathing new life into the federal Comstock Act—and at thwarting the efforts of abortion-friendly states to protect providers and patients—a Texas man has sued a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to his girlfriend and is asking the court to prevent the woman, who is currently pregnant, from […]
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long railed against antidepressants, and now he has very practical ways to attack them. As my colleague Kiera Butler has written, Kennedy has claimed, without evidence, that they can cause addiction and school shootings. He even proposed sending people who take them to “wellness farms,” […]
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The FDA Held a Misinformation Fest About Antidepressants in Pregnancy Read Post »
Tennessee’s “conscience law,” allowing doctors to deny care due to their religious beliefs, went into effect in April.
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A Tennessee Doctor Refused to Give a Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s Unmarried Read Post »
Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office. To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear. “Today is Six Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social rant. House Speaker […]
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Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse Read Post »
In the fall of 2018, Tia Goins was a new mother in crisis, facing eviction, unable to find room in a shelter, and confronting the prospect of homelessness in a Detroit winter—with her three-month-old baby. “It was like, what do I do?” Goins said earlier this year. “I just—I just didn’t want her to be […]
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Watch: A Mother’s Journey Through a Devastating Adoption System Read Post »
“Are you sure you’re going to be able to do this?” a doctor asked Heather Watkins shortly after she gave birth to her daughter. Watkins, who has muscular dystrophy, had developed preeclampsia and had to be induced at 39 weeks—exhausted after 26 hours of labor, she didn’t give the remark much thought. Years later, a […]
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Pregnancy Is a Minefield When You’re Disabled Read Post »
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