April 29, 2024
(Axios) – State health care plans must cover gender-affirming surgeries, a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled Monday. Why it matters: The ruling marks a major victory for transgender rights at a time when many states have cracked down on … Read More
April 26, 2024
(Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News) – For decades, the abortion wars have centered on whether a woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. But with increasingly strict restrictions on reproductive rights being enacted … Read More
April 26, 2024
April 24, 2024
(Platformer) – On Tuesday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass an aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan that also includes a measure to force the divestment of TikTok. Observers expect final passage of the bill sometime in the next … Read More
April 24, 2024
April 23, 2024
(KFF Health News) – The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent … Read More
April 23, 2024
(Axios) – The Supreme Court this week will consider whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho’s strict abortion ban. Why it matters: The case justices will hear Wednesday focuses on a key Biden administration effort … Read More
April 23, 2024
(Politico) – The author of a California bill that aimed to create the most expansive assisted dying law in the country has pulled the proposal, meaning it won’t be considered this year. San Diego area Sen. Catherine Blakespear confirmed after … Read More
April 19, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Congress is fast-tracking a bipartisan effort to crack down on TikTok that could lead to passage of a law this month forcing a sale or eventual ban of the popular Chinese-controlled app in the U.S. The … Read More
April 18, 2024
(New York Times) – With the advent of consumer neurotechnologies, the data being collected is becoming ever more intimate. One headband serves as a personal meditation coach by monitoring the user’s brain activity. Another purports to help treat anxiety and … Read More
April 17, 2024
April 16, 2024
(New York Times) – A Chinese company targeted by members of Congress over potential ties to the Chinese government makes blockbuster drugs for the American market that have been hailed as advances in the treatment of cancers, obesity and debilitating … Read More
April 15, 2024
(CNN) – In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, more young adults in the United States took pregnancy off the table entirely, new research has shown. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2022, the US … Read More
April 12, 2024
(ABC News) – “Medical-aid in dying is not me choosing to die,” she says she told her 17-year-old grandson. “I am going to die. But it is my way of having a little bit more control over what it looks … Read More
April 11, 2024
(NPR) – In a few weeks, Florida and Arizona are set to join most states in the southern U.S. in banning abortion. It’s a significant shake up to the abortion legal landscape, and data shared exclusively with NPR maps and … Read More
April 10, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Arizona’s highest court revived a 160-year-old ban on nearly all abortions, a decision that turns up the political heat on an issue that is pivotal in the battleground state and beyond for the 2024 presidential race. … Read More
April 8, 2024
(The Atlantic) – The legalization of cannabis in the United States—the biggest change in policy for an illegal substance since Prohibition ended—has been an unqualified success for approximately no one. True, the drug is widely available for commercial purchase, many … Read More
April 8, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – One of us (Mr. Pence) sought fertility treatment with his wife when starting a family in Indiana. Mr. Mize has worked in biobanking storage facilities in the state. We urge states to adopt basic protections for … Read More
April 4, 2024
(NPR) – Michigan was the only state that still had a broad criminal ban on surrogacy. Many families say that left them in legal limbo, forcing them to leave the state to have children, find strangers on Facebook who would … Read More
April 4, 2024
(The Hill) – An Alabama hospital said it plans to stop offering in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments at the end of this year due to “litigation concerns” surrounding the therapy. Mobile Infirmary said “it will no longer be able to … Read More
April 2, 2024
(The Hill) – Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill Monday legalizing paid surrogacy, arguing the controversial practice enables people to start families more easily. The Michigan Family Protection Act also establishes legal protections for in vitro fertilization (IVF), … Read More
April 2, 2024
(KFF Health News) – An LAist investigation has found that one year after California became the first state to require its public universities to provide abortion pills to students, basic information on where or how students can obtain the medication … Read More
April 1, 2024
(Chicago Sun Times) – The coalition says it advocates for “medical aid in dying and not assisted suicide, as it is commonly known.” This is simply a language game. “Medical aid” sounds a lot more attractive than “suicide,” but the … Read More
March 28, 2024
(KTVS) – Oregon Health Authority has released its 26th annual report on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which shows an almost 30% increase in the number of prescriptions written for lethal doses of medication under the Act in 2023, partly … Read More
March 28, 2024
(Boston Globe) – The New Hampshire House narrowly passed a bill that would legalize medical aid in dying in a vote of 179 to 176 Thursday. The controversial proposal outlined in House Bill 1283 also is often called physician-assisted suicide, … Read More
