U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling against allowing confidentiality for minors who seek contraceptives at Title X clinics is the latest indication...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois violated federal anti-discrimination law by excluding gender-affirming medical services from coverage under its self-insured health plans, a federal court in Tacoma, Wash., ruled.
Twenty-four hospitals and providers across 21 states were harassed online following “harassing, inflammatory and…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Roger Coody has no legal training and his political experience until recently had been limited to registering people to vote. Now, the Oklahoma hairstylist is pushing a ballot proposal he wrote that would make abortion access a constitutional right in his deeply red state, where Republican lawmakers have banned the procedure in nearly all circumstances.
ABC24 has new information on Methodist's cancellation of transgender surgeries.
Even in states where abortion remains legal, and voters have supported abortion rights ballot initiatives or rejected ballot proposals to ban abortion, reproductive care is being restricted in geographic regions dominated by hospitals with refusal policies.
AUSTIN — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Biden administration cannot prohibit doctors from denying certain medical care based on a patient’s...
Story at a glance For women in Texas and Louisiana, travel times to the nearest abortion facility increased to over seven hours following the Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision. Residents living in areas where the nearest facility is over an hour away were more likely to be uninsured and lack internet access. Long…
People of color -- especially Black and Hispanic people -- were less likely to receive Paxlovid and other Covid-19 treatments, according to a study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters are being asked to decide whether the state should be the first in the nation to amend its constitution to explicitly declare that affordable health care is a fundamental human right.
