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Even the meaning of the word ‘abortion’ is up for debate
A survey of 2,000 people found no shared definition of the word “abortion,” researchers at the Guttmacher Institute report.
Women fight abortion bans in 3 more states with legal actions
Patients and doctors in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma are taking legal action against state abortion bans. Women told dramatic stories of dangerous pregnancies and delayed care.
Labor unions praise Biden’s plan to boost staffing at nursing homes
For the first time ever, nursing homes may soon have to guarantee a registered nurse is working 24/7 in every facility.
Here are the first 10 drugs that Medicare will target for price cuts
The government will negotiate new prices for the commonly prescribed drugs, but the cuts won’t take effect until 2026. In the meantime, drug makers are fighting the negotiations with lawsuits.
To expand abortion access in Texas, a lawmaker gets creative
Starting Sept. 1, limited abortion care will be legal in Texas in two pregnancy circumstances. Getting that through the conservative Texas legislature required “masterful and discreet” lawmaking.
For one Texas doctor, abortion bans are personal and professional
Dr. Austin Dennard is an OB-GYN who is going to give birth very soon. She also had to leave Texas to terminate a previous pregnancy because the fetus had a fatal condition.
Filling Fauci’s shoes: Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo is HIV expert and a lot of fun at parties
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will lead NIH’s infectious diseases institute. Colleagues say she has a wide breadth of knowledge and a joyful demeanor.
Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: ‘There was no mercy’
Women who had complicated and tragic pregnancies are suing Texas over its abortion bans. A hearing had emotional testimony in an Austin courtroom Wednesday. The state wants the case dismissed.
In post-Roe Texas, 2 mothers with traumatic pregnancies walk very different paths
The state’s abortion bans make no exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies. Two women had devastating pregnancy diagnoses — one could leave the state for an abortion, and the other could not.
Abortion access could continue to change in year 2 after the overturn of Roe v. Wade
It’s already harder to get an abortion in many places and access is likely to be limited more with the passage of new laws.
