| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.08.2026 | More GOP party platforms include anti-IVF language. Is surrogacy next? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
Brooke Green thought she needed a mammogram.
Green, a Democratic state representative in Idaho, knew that breast cancer ran in her family and she “just had a... |
| 05.08.2026 | Abortion drug law in Louisiana heightens hemorrhage risk for pregnant patients | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Halle Parker, Verite News, KFF Health News
Over the past decade, Louisiana hospitals began stocking specialized carts designed to treat hemorrhages, one of the most common pregnancy complication... |
| 24.07.2026 | Feds have a new teen pregnancy prevention plan: Fertility and ‘reproductive goals’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations... |
| 20.07.2026 | Women are dying in Africa as US ramps up its global battle against abortion | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MONIKA PRONCZUK and THALIA BEATY
KISUMU, Kenya (AP) — For decades, U.S. anti-abortion groups have lobbied domestically and abroad for restricting access to abortion. In the U.S., their biggest s... |
| 16.07.2026 | Lawmakers look to make abortion shield laws less dependent on who’s governor | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jackie Fortiér, KFF Health News
When Gov. Gavin Newsom, using his executive power, refused to extradite a physician accused of prescribing and mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman, he sai... |
| 01.07.2026 | Trump changes pregnancy-prevention program to promote childbearing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sofia Resnick, Stateline.org
A federal poverty-fighting program focused on reducing unintended pregnancies is about to undergo a major overhaul.
Reproductive health clinics use Title X federal g... |
| 26.06.2026 | The pulpit is just one front in the US war against women (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nathalie Beasnael
This month in Orlando, the Southern Baptist Convention — the largest Protestant denomination in America — took its first formal step toward barring women from preaching. Almost... |
| 19.06.2026 | Missouri judge finds state laws restricting abortion violate voter-approved constitutional amendment | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
A Missouri judge this week struck down a series of restrictions on abortion, finding they violated a constitutional amendment that voters approved in 2024.
Many of the provisions... |
| 24.04.2026 | Nearly 1 in 4 people seeking abortions out of state chose Illinois. Here’s why | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
At Family Planning Associates in Chicago, in the office where staff take phone calls from potential abortion patients, a U.S. map colored in with red and gre... |
| 01.04.2026 | Lawmakers seek to protect crisis pregnancy centers as abortion clinic numbers shrink | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News
Conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing legislation drafted by an anti-abortion advocacy group to increase protections for crisis pregnancy... |
| 24.03.2026 | Abortion pills are gaining ground as a method for ending pregnancies, and opponents are responding | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL
As states that already ban abortion look to further restrict access this year, much of the focus is on pills sent by out-of-state providers.
A survey released Tuesday helps expla... |
| 16.02.2026 | She was denied a legal abortion and sent to prison over an illegal one. Now she tells her story | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JACOB ZIMBA and GERALD IMRAY
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — She says she was let down at every step. By a partner who abandoned her when she was pregnant. By a health service that denied her a legal abor... |
| 13.01.2026 | Louisiana seeks California doctor’s extradition, testing the limits of shield laws | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SARA CLINE
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana pushed Tuesday to extradite a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills, setting up a likely test of laws designed to protect telehealth pr... |
| 08.11.2025 | The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net | By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News
In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsur... |
| 25.09.2025 | Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid federal Medicaid funding cut | By SCOTT BAUER and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop scheduling patients for abortions starting next week as it works to find a way to provide the service in the face of Medicai... |
| 14.08.2025 | Costco forgoes sale of abortion pill, emboldening religious groups | Related Articles
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| 05.08.2025 | A brain-dead pregnant woman was kept alive in Georgia. It’s unclear if state law required it | She said doctors declared Smith brain-dead and put her on life support without consulting her.
“And I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy,” Newkirk said, “but what I’m saying is, we should have had a choice.”
Em... |
| 27.06.2025 | The Shifting Sands of Rights: A Decade After Obergefell and the Battle for Healthcare Access | Ten years ago, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision. Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage across the United States. It was a moment of triumph for many. A moment that echoed through the halls of justice and into the hearts... |
| 26.06.2025 | States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules | Gov. Henry McMaster first moved to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in 2018 but was blocked in court after a lawsuit from a patient named Julie Edwards. Edwards wanted to keep going there for birth control because her diabetes... |
| 23.06.2025 | The number of abortions kept rising in 2024 because of telehealth prescriptions, report finds | The overall number of abortions has risen, but it is below historic highs
The latest survey, released Monday, tallied about 1.1 million abortions nationally last year, or about 95,000 a month. That is up from about 88,000 monthly in 2023 an... |
| 21.05.2025 | A Texas bill to clarify exceptions to the state’s abortion ban clears a key hurdle after rocky path | Similar near-total abortion bans across the country have faced numerous legal challenges and criticism from medical professionals who have said that medical exceptions are too vague. Moves to clarify medical exceptions
Lawmakers in at least... |
| 24.04.2025 | The End of an Era: Boulder Abortion Clinic Closes Its Doors | The Boulder Abortion Clinic has closed after 50 years of service, marking a significant moment in the landscape of reproductive health care. Dr. Warren Hern, a pioneer in the field, has decided to retire, leaving behind a legacy that resona... |
| 23.04.2025 | Dr. Warren Hern closes Boulder Abortion Clinic after 50 years | Third-trimester abortions account for a small percentage of all terminations. Of the 14,691 abortions in Colorado in 2023, the most recent year with data, 73% happened at eight weeks or earlier. The Colorado Department of Public Health and ... |
| 12.03.2025 | National Politics | Risks of state abortion reporting mandates outweigh the benefits, an advocacy group says | Most state health departments require medical providers to report data about each abortion, though without including patient names. Massachusetts and Illinois mandate that providers give the state only aggregated data.FILE – Paul Meacham ho... |
| 20.02.2025 | National Politics | Once off the table, bills to charge women who get abortions with murder get votes before failing | Missouri proposal would make a database of certain pregnant women
Under the Missouri legislation, the state Department of Social Services would be directed to create a new division tasked with maintaining a “central registry of each expecta... |
| 24.12.2024 | The Battle Over Abortion Pills: A New Front in the Culture War | The landscape of abortion in America is shifting. As the dust settles from the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a new battleground emerges: abortion pills. These medications, particularly mifepristone and misoprostol, are b... |
| 23.12.2024 | Bridging the Gap: The Urgent Need for Specialized Care in Pregnancy-Related Nausea | Pregnancy is often painted as a beautiful journey. Yet, for many women, it’s a battleground. Morning sickness, a term that belies its severity, can morph into a relentless foe. Severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and hyperemesis g... |
| 23.12.2024 | National Politics | Abortion opponents shift focus to pills with lawsuits, proposed laws and possible federal action | The drugs are different than Plan B and other emergency contraceptives that are usually taken within three days after possible conception, weeks before women know they’re pregnant. Studies have found they’re generally safe and result in com... |
| 22.12.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Anne Whitesell: Colorado now has liberal abortion laws, but measures to restrict access have a long history | By Anne Whitesell
With the passage of Amendment 79 in November 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment solidifies the state’s status as one of the most liberal in the country on the iss... |
| 26.11.2024 | National Politics | Expecting challenges, blue states vow to create ‘firewall’ of abortion protections | “It’s going to be an interesting time.”Targeting abortion pills
Tong said one of his biggest concerns is that legislative efforts and legal challenges from anti-abortion lawmakers in red states could lead to nationwide restrictions on the m... |
| 12.11.2024 | National Politics | Abortion access under Trump is ‘a question mark’ | The Victorian-era Comstock Act is a law that prohibits sending lewd or lascivious material, like pornography, or any material intended for producing abortions, like the drug mifepristone, through the mail. It is not typically adhered to in ... |
| 24.10.2024 | The Political Tightrope: Trump’s Shifting Stances and Harris’ Closing Argument | In the world of politics, positions can shift like sand in the wind. Donald Trump, a master of reinvention, has changed his stance on several key issues as he campaigns for the presidency in 2024. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is ... |
| 23.10.2024 | National Politics | 5 times when Donald Trump changed his stance on an issue | Here is a look at some of his clearer, more consequential policy shifts:Abortion
What he said then: “Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House.” (in 2020)
What he says now: “My administration will be great for wo... |
| 22.10.2024 | Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says | The number of abortions in states with bans at all stages of pregnancy fell to near zero. It also plummeted in states where bans kick in around six weeks of pregnancy, which is before many women know they’re pregnant.
But the nationwide tot... |
| 27.09.2024 | The Citizenship Surge: A Political Game Changer Ahead of the 2024 Election | As the 2024 election approaches, a significant wave of new U.S. citizens is emerging. This surge is not just a statistic; it’s a potential game changer in the political landscape. The speed of citizenship approvals has reached a pace not se... |
| 26.09.2024 | Health | Abortion clinics — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting | Since that ruling, 14 states have enacted bans with few exceptions, while other states have limited access. But states that do not have an abortion ban in place have seen an 11% increase in clinician-provided abortions since 2020, according... |
| 22.08.2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention | Abortion ban
After predicting that Trump and Vance would “gut Social Security and Medicare,” Walz repeated the outdated claim that “they will ban abortion across this country with or without Congress.” Trump used to support that position, b... |
| 09.07.2024 | Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Access Rights, Setting a Precedent for Reproductive Freedom | In a landmark decision, the Kansas Supreme Court recently struck down two anti-abortion laws, bolstering the state's commitment to protecting abortion access. The rulings, issued in two separate cases, underscore the court's stance that the... |
| 05.07.2024 | Kansas' top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering state right to abortion access | Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution prot... |
| 05.07.2024 | Health | Rate of young women getting sterilized doubled after Roe was overturned | After Roe was overturned in June 2022, doctors said a wave of young people like Ferst started asking for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed, or vasectomies.
New research published this spr... |
| 28.06.2024 | National Politics | Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states | Two more states, Maryland and New York, have abortion rights ballot measures that were referred by their state legislatures, though New York’s is currently tied up in litigation.
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled the constitut... |
| 24.06.2024 | 2 years after Dobbs, Democratic-led states move to combat abortion bans | Two years after the Supreme Court ended federal protections for abortion care, some Democratic-led states have moved to combat the restrictive laws on the procedure that have been enacted in Republican-led states.
The efforts from Democrati... |
| 24.06.2024 | Women’s Health Caucus and Reproductive Rights Advocates to Rally on the second-year mark of the Dobb’s Decision | Harrisburg, PA – June 24, 2024 – Members of the Pennsylvania Women’s Health Caucus (WHC) were joined by Planned Parenthood, Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh, and advocates in Harrisburg today, on the second-year mark of th... |
| 23.06.2024 | New Mexico governor says two years after Roe was overturned that "there are more abortions happening because more women are at risk" | Washington — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Sunday that two years after the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion guaranteed under Roe v. Wade, "there are more abortions happening because more women are a... |
| 21.06.2024 | More than half of U.S. women feel like they have to fight to get the medical care they need | New Survey by Stagwell (STGW)'s The Harris Poll Reveals Urgent Concerns Regarding Access and Quality of Maternal Healthcare in the U.S.
NEW YORK, June 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Harris Poll, a Stagwell Agency, recently released its second... |
| 21.06.2024 | National Politics | The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Here’s the state of abortion rights now in the US | Bans in Republican-led states have prompted many people seeking abortions to travel to get care.
That translates into higher costs for gas or plane tickets, hotels and meals; more logistics to figure out, including child care; and more days... |
| 18.06.2024 | The Supreme Court Rejected an Attack on Medication Abortion, But the Fight Is Far From Over. | This month, the Supreme Court refused to consider a request by anti-abortion groups to impose nationwide restrictions on mifepristone, a safe medication used in most U.S. abortions and for miscarriage care. Without addressing whether mifepr... |
| 14.06.2024 | More than 171,000 people traveled out-of-state for abortions last year | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Data: Guttmacher Institute; Note: Includes procedural and medication abortions provided at brick-and-mortar health facilities as well as medication abortions via tele... |
| 10.06.2024 | Charted: The uneven landscape of abortion laws | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Data: KFF, Guttmacher Institute, Axios research; Map: Axios Visuals
Half the states have imposed limits on abortion in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court reje... |
| 31.05.2024 | Mapped: How late in pregnancy states allow abortions | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: KFF, Guttmacher Institute, Axios research; Map: Simran Parwani/Axios Visuals
State laws surrounding abortion have been in flux since since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two yea... |
| 25.05.2024 | Louisiana governor signs bill to classify abortion pills as controlled substances into law | Washington — Louisiana became the first state to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, making possession of the pills without a prescription a crime.
Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed legislation that rec... |
| 24.05.2024 | New bill allows Arizona doctors to perform abortions in California as state ban looms | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Arizona doctors can now legally provide abortions in California for Arizona patients needing to travel out of state for care.
Why it matters: The new law protects and expands access to the procedure a... |
| 23.05.2024 | National Politics | A comment from Trump and GOP actions in the states put contraceptive access in the 2024 spotlight | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said he wants a vote as soon as next month on a bill to protect access to contraception that is similar to one the U.S. House passed in 2022 when Democrats controlled the chamber. Even if th... |
| 01.05.2024 | As Florida's six-week abortion ban starts, here's how providers are preparing | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
As Florida's six-week abortion ban begins Wednesday, providers and advocates both in and out of state are bracing for a massive shift in the national abortion landscape.
Why it matters: As options nar... |
| 23.04.2024 | CA lawmakers working to improve abortion access for out-of-state patients | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Guttmacher Institute; Note: Data unavailable for D.C.; Map: Simran Parwani/Axios Visuals
State lawmakers are working on a bill that would allow doctors from Arizona to legally come to California... |
| 21.04.2024 | Exclusive: Who drives the furthest to get an abortion | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Center for American Progress analysis of Myers Abortion Facility Database and Census Bureau data; Note: Average of one-way drive times for all census tracts within a congressional district in th... |
| 11.04.2024 | Arizona's abortion ban likely to cause people to travel for services in states where it's still legal | Doctors and clinic leaders said there will be a scramble across the Southwest and West for abortion care in the wake of Tuesday's Arizona Supreme Court decision, which said officials may enforce an 1864 law criminalizing all abortions excep... |
| 23.03.2024 | How the Supreme Court could determine abortion pill access | The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could have far-reaching effects on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Why it matters: Not only could the court's decision further curtail abortion access across t... |
| 19.03.2024 | Medication abortion makes up 63% of U.S. abortions, study finds | Medication abortion accounted for about two out of three abortions performed in the U.S. in 2023, the highest figure on record, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute.
Why it matters: The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral a... |
| 19.03.2024 | More than 6 in 10 U.S. abortions in 2023 were done by medication, new research shows | More than six in 10 of the abortions in the U.S. last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, new research shows.
The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, said about 642,700 medication aborti... |
| 05.03.2024 | You'll soon be able to get birth control without a prescription. Here's what you need to know. | Economy You'll soon be able to get birth control without a prescription. Here's what you need to know.
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| 05.03.2024 | CVS and Walgreens will begin selling abortion pills ahead of a key SCOTUS ruling on restricting access to the drug | Healthcare CVS and Walgreens will begin selling abortion pills ahead of a key SCOTUS ruling on restricting access to the drug
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| 29.02.2024 | Abortions now cost over $450, more than double the price before Roe was overturned, per a reproductive care nonprofit director | Economy Abortions now cost over $450, more than double the price before Roe was overturned, per a reproductive care nonprofit director
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| 27.02.2024 | After Alabama’s IVF nightmare, these are the 10 worst states for women to live in | Facing unequal pay, anti-abortion legislation, and workplace bias, women are making tough decisions when deciding where to plant their roots. And now, with state-level barriers to conceiving and carrying a pregnancy to term, the pressure is... |
| 11.02.2024 | Health | Colorado abortion clinics adjusting to surge in demand in a post-Roe world: “This is our new normal” | Colorado’s abortion clinics have been adjusting to higher demand since the end of Roe v. Wade more than a year-and-a-half ago, expanding their services to meet the needs of local and the increased numbers of out-of-state patients.
At the pe... |
| 08.02.2024 | Health | More ‘navigators’ are helping women travel to have abortions | Lillian Mongeau Hughes | KFF Health News (TNS)
Chloe Bell is a case manager at the National Abortion Federation. She spends her days helping people cover the cost of an abortion and, increasingly, the interstate travel many of them need to ... |
| 31.01.2024 | What the pope is missing about commercial surrogacy | Over the past few years, I have watched a wonderful young boy I’ll call Chad grow up smart and full of life. His parents, a gay couple with whom I am friends, used a gestational surrogate, Mary (also a pseudonym), a kind, down-to-earth woma... |
| 29.01.2024 | Supreme Court slates abortion pill case for March | WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments about access to the abortion medication mifepristone on March 26.
The lawsuit is the first major test of abortion limits to go before the highest court since the same panel overturned feder... |
| 26.01.2024 | Inside the Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, which saw a spike in out-of-state patients after Roe was overturned | Health Inside the Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, which saw a spike in out-of-state patients after Roe was overturned
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| 22.01.2024 | 3Daughters raises $2M to develop a pain-free IUD | The company plans to add another $1 million to the round in the next few months
IUDs (intrauterine devices) are one of the most effective forms of birth control, fewer than 1 out of 100 people who use an IUD getting pregnant each year. Howe... |
| 20.12.2023 | Pregnant cancer patients often have to terminate. Abortion pill restrictions could make that choice even harder | WASHINGTON — The patient had already made the agonizing decision to start chemotherapy to address her colon cancer, even though she was 30 weeks pregnant. Within a day, the decisions got harder: her colon perforated, and the pain was excruc... |
| 14.12.2023 | Morning Rounds: Teen pregnancies down, but remain higher in the U.S. | Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter here.
Good morning. Reproductive health is dominating the news and the newsletter this morning. We also have a look at t... |
| 13.12.2023 | Exceptions to abortion restrictions often fail people like Kate Cox whose babies are sure to die | Imagine being in the midst of your pregnancy, and you learn that your baby is unlikely to live for more than a few fleeting moments after birth. There is no cure for their condition. Nothing can prevent their death.
Most people think they w... |
| 13.12.2023 | Democrats wanted to make abortion rights a focal point in 2024. The Supreme Court just guaranteed it. | Politics Democrats wanted to make abortion rights a focal point in 2024. The Supreme Court just guaranteed it.
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| 08.12.2023 | 'I feel conned into keeping this baby' | Redeem now
Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.
It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.
They were staying at Tara's mother-in-law's home in Texas, sleeping with their kids ... |
| 27.10.2023 | Health | Medical exceptions to abortion bans often exclude mental health conditions | Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.org
If you are in need of support, call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262) for free, confidential and 24/7 support, or dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisi... |
| 27.09.2023 | 'Bayer For Her' Supporting 365 Days Conversations of Care to More Women in Asia | Bridging the gap on lack of discussion amongst Asian women on their health concerns this World Contraception Day (WCD)
SINGAPORE, Sept. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division in Asia/Pacific announced today in conjunction w... |
| 26.09.2023 | World Contraception Day 2023: Bayer Indonesia launches "Bayer For Her" to improve the reproductive health of Indonesian women | Bayer promotes the empowerment of Indonesian women, enabling them to make informed choices on their reproductive health to enhance a better quality of life.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Coinciding with the commemoratio... |
| 25.09.2023 | 'Bayer For Her' Supporting 365 Days Conversations of Care to More Women in Asia | Bridging the gap on lack of discussion amongst Asian women on their health concerns this World Contraception Day (WCD)
SINGAPORE, Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division in Asia/Pacific announced today in conjunction w... |
| 09.08.2023 | Health
Health | ‘Conscience’ bills let medical providers opt out of providing a wide range of care | Carly Graf | (TNS) KFF Health News
A new Montana law will provide sweeping legal protections to health care practitioners who refuse to prescribe marijuana or participate in procedures and treatments such as abortion, medically assisted dea... |
| 28.07.2023 | Doctors in states that ban abortion can still refer patients elsewhere. Why are so few doing that? | For now, abortion remains accessible even in states where it’s banned — at least for those who know where to look. It’s still legal in two-thirds of the country, and numerous websites explain how to order medications from international phar... |
| 18.07.2023 | A new study shows how Medicaid coverage policies shape maternal health disparities | Medicaid is an essential source of maternal and postpartum care for low-income Americans, covering 42% of births in the U.S. People who give birth receive maternity care until at least two months after delivery, or longer depending on state... |
| 13.07.2023 | Over-the-counter birth control is a post-Roe "game-changer" | The most commonly prescribed contraceptive in America is getting easier to access, if you can afford it or live in the right state.
Why it matters: The role of of contraception has become more vital with mounting abortion restrictions acros... |
| 11.07.2023 | Why maternal mortality is so hard to measure — and why the problem may get worse | Every new data point or report appears to confirm it: The U.S. is in the midst of a mounting maternal mortality crisis. With more than 32 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, the risk of dying during pregnancy or in the year after child... |
| 23.06.2023 | Wyoming judge halts state's abortion pills ban | A Wyoming judge halted the state's new ban on abortion pills on Thursday just days before the law was set to take effect on July 1.
Why it matters: Wyoming was the first state to move to ban the pills, which were used for more than half of ... |
| 02.06.2023 | 10 прорывных технологий 2023 года по версии Массачусетского технологического института | MIT каждый год выбирает десять технологий, которые имеют наибольшее значение для человечества. 2023 год не стал исключением, поэтому мы решили бережно перевести этот большой материал для читателей Хабр.CRISPR для высокого холестерина
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| 12.05.2023 | Proposed rules to protect health data in an era of abortion bans fall short | When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it effectively rescinded national protections of reproductive health care. The decision was very quickly followed by abortion bans in 14 states with more pending such as the highly restrictive ... |
| 05.05.2023 | Supreme Court’s abortion ruling disproportionately affects Black people with low incomes in the Deep South | Even before Alauni took an at-home pregnancy test just four weeks after a single instance of unplanned sexual activity, she knew it would be positive.
The 24-year-old Texas college student – a single, working mother of three children under ... |
| 28.04.2023 | Comprehensive sexuality education is the key to a better tomorrow | The evidence for the many benefits of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) – which teaches adolescents and young people about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality – is mounting. We know that CSE not only hel... |
| 27.04.2023 | Changing the Course of Women’s Health Takes Persistence – Here’s What We’ve Learned | In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn a medical degree, inspired by a dying friend who said her health ordeal would have been better if she’d had a female physician. For Blackwell, becoming a doctor meant boldl... |
| 13.04.2023 | Abortion Pill Access in 2023: A Timeline | In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone and misoprostol, two pills that are taken together to terminate a pregnancy. The agency ruled that these drugs, often referred to as “abortion pills” were safe to use through t... |
| 12.04.2023 | Biden Admin Proposes Update to Privacy Law, Blocking Access to Reproductive Health Information | John Lopez, Tech Times 12 April 2023, 10:04 am
The Biden administration recently proposed to amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rules to protect patients seeking reproductive care from being target... |
| 11.04.2023 | A Texas judge tried to school the FDA on the abortion pill. Only problem? He used debunked research and a study based on an anonymous blog to do it. | Abortion rights advocates gather in front of the J Marvin Jones Federal Building and Courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, on March 15, 2023. Moisés ÁVILA / AFP
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| 08.04.2023 | What can California do about abortion pill ruling? Not much | In summary
A ruling that suspends federal approval for medication abortion will not be easy for California abortion access advocates to overcome. Unless it’s reversed on appeal, the drug will likely be pulled from pharmacy shelves.
Californ... |
| 07.04.2023 | Texas federal judge halts FDA approval of abortion pill mifepristone; Biden administration filing appeal | Washington — A federal judge in Texas on Friday halted the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, delivering a blow to abortion rights advocates in the wake of the Supreme Court's dismantling of the const... |
| 16.03.2023 | Judge mulls banning abortion pill in US, questions regulatory approval | Government
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4 minute readMarch 16, 202312:36 AM UTCLast Updated agoJudge mulls banning abortion pill in US, questions regulatory approval
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and Brendan Pierson
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It’s not clear how the decision might affect those enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income residents. Walgreens is a key provider of prescriptions for the program.
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| 22.02.2023 | Challenging State Abortion Bans in Light of FDA’s Rule Change on the Sale of Abortion Pills | In June, the United States Supreme Court abandoned nearly 50 years of precedent and, for the first time in this nation’s history, eliminated a fundamental right: the right to choose. This decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizati... |
| 09.02.2023 | Idaho GOP lawmakers want to classify anyone who helps a minor cross state lines to get an abortion as a human trafficker and punish them with up to 5 years in prison | Protesters gather outside Idaho Statehouse on May 14, 2022. Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images
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Republican Rep. Barbara Ehardt of Idaho Falls introduced House Bill 98 on Tuesday.
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