People who use Medicaid make up half of the total patient volume nationwide for the clinics’ health care services.
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In late March, the US Department of Education put state education officials on notice: No longer would the federal government tolerate what the agency described in a Dear Colleague Letter as the widespread infringement on parents’ rights to direct the schooling of their kids. “By natural right and moral authority, parents are the primary protectors […]
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Parental Rights Is a Movement With Deep Roots. It’s Spreading Nationwide. Read Post »
A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]
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More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth Read Post »
Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]
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A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions Read Post »
Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like […]
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Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse. Read Post »
Conservative think tanks are building a body of “research” meant to question the safety of the abortion pill.
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Abortion Opponents Are Using “Junk Science” Studies to Target Mifepristone Read Post »
To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]
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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More Read Post »
Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state’s “heartbeat law.”
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GA Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Woman Declared Brain Dead on Life Support Read Post »
In the early morning hours on Thursday, after an all-night session of tense negotiations, House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. In addition to the largest cuts to Medicaid in US history, the bill contains provisions that have alarmed health care advocates since they first showed up in earlier versions of […]
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Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill Read Post »
Monday marked 90 days from February 18—the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order that falsely claimed to fulfill a campaign promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF. In reality, all the executive order actually did was commission a relatively low-level Trump administration official to submit to the president […]
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Trump Still Hasn’t Produced Plans to Make IVF More Accessible Read Post »
In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]
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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism Read Post »
Earlier this month, the Trump administration scored seemingly positive headlines when it asked a federal court to dismiss a case brought by three Republican states seeking to restrict telehealth access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a medication abortion. Several news outlets claimed in headlines that the administration would “defend” access to […]
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RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills Read Post »
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