Over the past few months, we’ve also seen officials, and the panelists they invite, in the Department for Health and Human Services push a very narrow prescription for how pregnant patients, predominantly women, should behave; one that looks down upon such noncontroversial things as pain medication, mental health treatment, and the use of formula to … Read more
The administration’s charged rhetoric comes as Trump seeks to establish his bona fides with the pronatalist movement, which supports policies that would boost the U.S. birth rate and has ties to Christian nationalist and conservative Catholic communities. This month he announced steps that he said would make fertility care more affordable. Dr. Mehmet Oz, who … Read more
A health care proposal suggested by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance could gut a popular Affordable Care Act protection, making it legal for companies to charge more for or deny coverage of expensive medical conditions, including pregnancy. Read more at 19th News
Freehill says that while advocates of the reclassification amendments claim doctors can keep using the medications as they did before, this only works in theory. Since Dobbs, she’s had numerous problems getting misoprostol filled for patients and had multiple instances of pharmacists telling her they would not prescribe it under any circumstances. She worries this … Read more
The measure would make possession of the medications without a valid prescription or an order from a medical professional punishable by up to five years in prison, with an exception for pregnant people. Read more at NBC News
