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Abortions Are Rising—Even After Dobbs. A New Book Explains Why.

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New data released this week reaffirmed a seemingly paradoxical reality of the post-Roe v. Wade era: Abortion rates have continued to rise despite the increasing restrictions nationwide.  The latest data, compiled by the abortion rights research and policy organization the Guttmacher Institute, shows that throughout 2024, clinicians provided more than one million abortions in states […]

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“We’re Going to Do Whatever It Takes to Keep Her Safe”

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On Susan’s birthday five years ago, her 10-year-old slid a note under her door. Today, she can recite it from memory: “Hey Mom, I wanted to ask, when you talk about me in the future, if you could use he/him or they/them pronouns because she/her pronouns make me really uncomfortable.” Then, “Happy Birthday.” Susan, the mother […]

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Why Does “National Security” Always Mean More War, Not More Health Care?

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We already have the money for social programs. We just choose to spend it on war instead of on people.

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Veterans Affairs Backtracked on His Cancer Treatment. He Blames DOGE.

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In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, both related to cancer for which he had already received care through the VA—were denied. Puhl, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, holds the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s “Department of […]

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Lawmakers Are Trying to Hold Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Account

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Last month, during an Indiana state legislative hearing, Republican Sen. Jeff Raatz from Richmond, a small city in the eastern part of the state, discussed a resolution he filed declaring that the state’s general assembly “strongly supports pregnancy care centers in their unique, positive contributions to the individual lives of women, men, and babies—both born […]

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Don’t Believe RFK Jr.’s Flip-Flop on the Measles Vaccine

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. In his first sit-down interview in his role as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—which was taped Tuesday and aired on CBS News Wednesday morning—Kennedy claimed to endorse the vaccine after a record […]

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Resistance Grows as Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care for Over 79 Million in US

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Planned cuts to Medicaid and CHIP will put more than 79 million people at medical risk. But resistance is mounting.

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Poll Finds Over a Third in US Can’t Access Quality Health Care — a New High

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A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine.

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