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Kansas House Passes Bill That Would Force Doctors to Lie to Patients About Abortion Pill

Kansas voted to protect abortion in a ballot initiative last year. The legislature has other plans.

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Cardinal Health Inc is exploring a potential sale of its nuclear medicine unit as part of a larger review of its business, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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GOP lawmaker ‘very sad’ Utah parent used his law to request ‘sex-ridden’ Bible be removed from school

Responding to a new law allowing for "pornographic" books to be removed from school libraries, a Utah parent has moved to have "one of the most sex-ridden books around" removed as well, namely, the Bible. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the parent, who remains unidentified for privacy reasons, su...

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Georgia county said it was too costly to spend $10,000 a year on health cover for trans employees. It spent $1.2 million fighting it, lost, and has to pay anyway.

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Jackson dissents in abortion case - The newest justice objected as SCOTUS wiped out an appeals court’s decision on minors’ rights to terminate pregnancy.

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House GOP zeroes in on transgender health care - While the legislation would likely die in the Senate, if it gets a vote on the House floor it sets the stage for Republicans to take a national stance on gender-affirming care.

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Racial Disparities Arise From Inconsistent Newborn Drug Screening Policy - Black newborns are more than 7 percent more likely to undergo drug testing regardless of obstetrical risk; researchers attributed these racial disparities to an unclear drug screening policy and racial bias.

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A Texas man has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against three women who allegedly helped his ex-wife obtain abortion pills and terminate her pregnancy.

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People Are Misreading the Covid Lab Leak Reports - Two government agencies have now concluded that the Covid-19 pandemic originated in an accidental leak from a lab. But paradoxically, they also point to a natural origin.

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments Tuesday on whether West Virginia’s Medicaid program can lawfully refuse to pay for gender-affirming surgeries.

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South Carolina woman arrested in 2023, accused of self-managed abortion in 2021

South Carolina is one of two states in the country that criminalizes self-managed abortions, experts told USA TODAY. The other state is Nevada.

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A new analysis released Monday shows that insurance giants are benefiting hugely from the accelerating privatization of Medicare and Medicaid, which for-profit companies have infiltrated via government programs such as Medicare Advantage.

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A Federal Judge Just Struck Down Obamacare’s Prevention Treatments – Access to cancer screenings, HIV drugs, and prenatal services could become a lot more expensive.

Access to cancer screenings, HIV drugs, and prenatal services could become a lot more expensive.

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Obamacare Says Insurers Can’t Deny Coverage of Contraceptives. They’re Doing It Anyway. | The New Republic

Democrats in Congress are warning the Biden administration that access to some birth-control products is still beyond the reach of many Americans.

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Most trans adults say transitioning made them more satisfied, Washington Post-KFF poll says - The Washington Post

The Post-KFF survey is the largest, nongovernmental survey of transgender Americans using randomized sampling methods.

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Miguel Luna Perez can pursue ADA claim, Supreme Court rules - The ruling said a young Michigan man can pursue an Americans with Disabilities Act claim while seeking via the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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The Affordable Care Act has significantly reduced racial disparities in healthcare access, report says - CBS News

Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped cut the U.S. uninsured rate nearly in half, a new report says.

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The Legal Argument for Banning the Abortion Pill Is Based on a Lie - The FDA did not fast-track mifepristone in 2000. Rather, the agency took more than four years to greenlight the drug, doing so only after extensive (and arguably superfluous) examination of its (very minor) risks. When the FDA did finally approve the use of mifepristone, after an unusually thorough review, however, it imposed heightened restrictions on its distribution. It was these extra barriers to mifepristone access that were set up through a process known as accelerated approval.

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An Idaho College Removes Artwork About Abortion, Citing a State Law Six works in a Lewis-Clark exhibition about health care were perceived to run afoul of a law that prohibits the use of state funds to “promote abortion” or “counsel in favor of abortion.”

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80 Former Congress Members Mishandled Classified Documents

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Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban; the women say they were denied abortions under state law despite risks to themselves and their fetuses that made the procedure a medical necessity.

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988 Suicide Prevention Line Ramps Up LGBTQI+ Chat, Text Services The 988 suicide prevention services hotline is rolling out 24/7 text message and chat services for LGBTQI+ youth, building on a pilot program launched amid a mental health crisis

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Warren Report Exposes Insurance Industry Ploy to 'Scam Millions of Seniors' - Private insurance giants are offering luxury vacations and other incentives for agents to "push seniors into the most expensive Medigap plans," the Massachusetts senator found.

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Gun Deaths to Kids Keep Rising, But State Gun Laws Can Help - Consumer Health News | HealthDay

WEDNESDAY, March 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Following a mass shooting that killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Tennessee on Monday, public officials are again talking about how to stop the never-ending cycle of gun violence in the United States.Recent research o...

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Tennessee transgender bill threatens to upend Medicaid contracts - The leaders of the Tennessee Legislature aim to ban Medicaid contracts with health insurance companies that cover gender-affirming care, not just in the Volunteer State but anywhere in the U.S.

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Florida Republican Behind ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Pleads Guilty To COVID Relief Fraud - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Joseph Harding, the now-former Florida Republican lawmaker who authored the state’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges…

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Republicans Race to Block Abortion-Rights Ballot Measures- Reversing many years of rhetoric demanding popular control of abortion policy and other cultural hot-button issues, the anti-abortion movement and their Republican allies are now trying to make it harder to place pro-choice initiatives on ballots.

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Wyoming Becomes First State to Outlaw the Use of Pills for Abortion The law is the only one in the nation to prohibit the use separate from an overall abortion ban and is part of a growing effort by conservative states to target the pills.

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Why should Ohio Senate Bill 83 be stopped. What can be done at Ohio State?

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Proposed Florida Laws Use 'Genocidal Rhetoric' to Attack Trans People, Legal Experts Say

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Threats To Equity: Missing Methodological Details About Race And Ethnicity In Health Research

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How Obamacare Enabled a Christian Health Care Cash Grab Capitalizing on the pressure to pass the Affordable Care Act, a conservative lobbyist created an exception for faith-based health coverage, opening the door for “bad actors.”

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For Young People on Medicare, a Hysterectomy Sometimes Is More Affordable Than Birth Control

While Medicare was designed as health insurance for those 65 and older, it also covers people with disabilities who are young enough to still get pregnant. Yet they often struggle to get their birth control covered and end up with large medical bills — or instead opt for hysterectomies or tubal ligations, which Medicare sometimes will cover.

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Column: A transgender patient's lawsuit against Kaiser is a front for the conservative war on LGBTQ rights. A transgender patient says Kaiser forced her to transition from male to female. Here's what that's really about.

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We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons - America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.

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