Timothy Bella

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Fla. woman forced to fly to D.C. for abortion returns for State of the Union

Anabely Lopes was 15 weeks pregnant last year when doctors told her that her fetus had a fatal birth defect that would result in death within days of birth.

Woman says she carried dead fetus for 2 weeks after Texas abortion ban

“I felt like a walking coffin,” Marlena Stell said of her miscarriage in 2021, the same year Texas enacted a law banning abortions after six weeks.

California will make its own insulin to fight drug’s high prices, Newsom says

“Nothing epitomizes market failures more than the cost of insulin,” the California governor said in announcing that $100 million from the state budget he recently signed would be allocated to “contract and make [its] own insulin at a cheaper price, clo…

Miss. lawmaker says 12-year-old incest victims should carry pregnancies to term

“I believe life begins at conception,” Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn (R) said.

Texas AG says he’d defend sodomy law if Supreme Court revisits 2003 ruling

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

Publix won’t offer coronavirus vaccines to children under 5 ‘at this time’

The company’s customer service department did not explaining the reasoning for the decision.

Germany, France, Belgium confirm first cases of monkeypox

They join a growing list of countries where cases of the rare viral illness have popped up outside of the disease’s typical territory in recent days.

She expected to pay $1,337 for surgery. She was billed $303,709.

Years after Lisa French argued she was never informed of the massive “chargemaster” price rates and engaged in a years-long legal battle with the hospital, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in her favor this week.

Ex-nurse convicted of injecting patient with wrong drug gets probation

RaDonda Vaught, who worked at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, faced up to eight years in prison for giving 75-year-old Charlene Murphey a fatal dose of the wrong medication in December 2017.

Chicago will be ‘oasis’ for abortion if Roe is overturned, mayor says

If Roe v. Wade is overturned and more states enforce “trigger” laws severely weakening abortion access or banning it, Chicago’s mayor said the city would “be a safe haven.”