On Monday, in a five to three decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Fifth Circuit court’s decision in Whole Woman’s Health vs. Hellerstedt. The Court ruled that Texas’s HB2, an omnibus abortion bill that restricted access to reproductive services, is unconstitutional. Justice Breyer wrote the majority opinion.
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved clinical trials for a vaccine for the Zika virus. Stat News reports that the vaccine, currently called GLS-5700, will begin human testing in the next few weeks.
In late March, Indiana passed House Enrolled Act 1337, a comprehensive abortion bill that placed a series of familiar restrictions on the procedure; from requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals to restricting abortion based on race and gender and outlawing abortion based on disability.…
It’s official, this is the Week Of Fools. They are everywhere, even *sarcastic gasp* in the form of a Republican trying to remember the term for ... you know, that thing that stops women from getting pregnant. They're always up in arms about it ... oh yeah, birth control!
Defunding Planned Parenthood was a hot legislative trend in 2011, but now it seems that all that hard, not-really-job-creating-at-all work put in by our Tea Partying state legislatures is being slowly undone by the court system. The newest state that has been told, in no uncertain terms, that you can't defund Planned…
Having hoped to precede Texas' and Arizona's big rattlesnake-skin-cowboy-boot footsteps, Indiana seemed poised in 2011 to deny Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds because the organization performs abortions. Then U.S. district judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued an injunction blocking parts of Indiana's law last summer. On…
There's a new voting bloc on the rise and, unfortunately for Republicans, it's not the aging, disaffected, white male small business owner who hauled himself up by his bootstraps to teach himself accounting and microeconomics because he'd be damned if he'd sit through a single lecture at an elitist academic…
Denise Grady and Béatrice de Géa of the NY Times (again) report and find beauty in the problems with inadequate medical care for expectant mothers in rural Tanzania, how illegal abortions contribute to the problem and how the doctors and women doing the best they can. [NY Times, NY Times]
