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More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth

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A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]

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Disability Activists Bring Wisdom From the Pandemic to New Struggles Under Trump

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White House rhetoric dehumanizes disabled communities, but activists continue to organize for access, care and justice.

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As We Defend Medicaid, We Can’t Lose Sight of the End Goal: Free, Universal Care

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While the GOP slashes health care funding at the federal level, some state governors are following suit.

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Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each Year

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Annual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts.

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Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse.

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Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like […]

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Mothers of Imprisoned Sons Struggle Emotionally and Financially With No Support

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Right now in the US, more than a million mothers are pouring energy and money into trying to care for incarcerated sons.

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For Trans People on Medicaid, Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Anything But

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Last week, Max, a trans man in North Carolina in his twenties—and my childhood friend—got top surgery. “I didn’t cry when I saw the results because it just looks like how I feel it should,” Max wrote in an email. He cried later, he said—when he realized he’d been able to “build a body I […]

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“BS”: Former HHS Secretary Blasts White House Defense of False Citations in MAHA Report

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The former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra said the Trump administration’s explanations of how fake studies wound up cited in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s “Make America Health Again (MAHA)” report is “BS.” “We have an obligation to protect the health of the American people, and to be silent […]

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Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

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In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was […]

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