Deborah

Federal law protects emergency abortions. Will Trump keep that policy?

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But the policy’s future remains uncertain. Trump has directed the federal government to identify and rescind policies that support abortion rights. Contributors to Project 2025, the public policy blueprint the Trump administration has largely followed since taking office, have called for reversing the interpretation that EMTALA can protect the right to emergency abortion. Read more … Read more

Why PRAMS Got Shuttered

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Based on my sources, I can now report that the issue does not appear to be the various ways that comprehensive research on pregnancy might be perceived as bumping up against controversies over abortion and other politicized issues of reproductive health care. The issue is what the administration calls “DEI.” The questionnaires include questions about … Read more

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health

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The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” in the words of … Read more

Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions

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The Save MO Babies Act is the latest in a series of anti-abortion efforts to expand government tracking of pregnant women and abortion patients. Project 2025, the famous conservative policy playbook, suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expand its “surveillance” to force states to turn over data on “exactly how many abortions … Read more