Abortion care has changed dramatically in the last two decades with the advent of "medication abortion." The so-called abortion pill allows women to seek care privately and manage the process at home, which has the side benefit of helping them avoid anti-abortion protesters outside clinics. To...
July 10, 2024 Flipping through the channels, I came upon an episode of “Law & Order,” in which the main characters “witness an execution and try to come to terms with their roles in the killing of another human being.” The program features a typical liberal prosecutor having second th...
Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USAdoi:10.1038/s41591-024-02834-wTelehealth abortion has become critical to addressing surges in demand in states where abortion remains legal but evidence on its effectiveness and safety is limited. California Home Abortion by Telehealth...
September 25, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that she supports getting rid of the Senate filibuster to pass legislation to restore federal abortion rights. In 2022, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturnedRoe v. Wadeby a vote of 6-3 inDobbs ...
CDC issues health alert as 2024 measles cases match last year’s total The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory in response to a rise in measles cases in the U.S. and abroad, with domestic infections this year already meeting the total seen in 2023. ...
Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USA. Nat Med. 2024:1-8. doi:10.1038/s41591-024-02834-wGoogle ScholarCrossref 33. Koenig LR, Raymond EG, Gold M, et al. Mailing abortion pills does not delay care: a cohort study comparing mailed to in-...
Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco. January 2024. This interactive map shows brick-and-mortar abortion clinics in the United States by zip code.Note:Telehealth/virtual-only facilities are not included, as they have no zip code....
GOP incumbent Greg Wallis of Rancho Mirage has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood. ( Photo by Andy Abeyta, The Desert Sun/USA Today Network via Reuters)A campaign spot flooding TV airwaves in the Sacramento region this election season warns that the
Some social media posts are using the criminal sentencing of a man in Texas to criticize the state’s strict abortion law
“A baby, gasping on an abortion clinic table, should not be left to die,” Republican Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator wrote in an op-ed for USA Today. “This kind of radicalism is wildly out of step with the American public.” ...