Roe v wade
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Small, Rural Communities Have Become Abortion Access Battlegrounds
The quest to enact local bans has become particularly acute in small towns, like West Wendover, Nevada, and Hobbs, New Mexico, which are situated by borders between states that have restricted abortion and states where laws preserve access.
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‘Abortion Trafficking’: Taking a Minor Out of State for an Abortion Is Now a Crime in Idaho:
The law creates a crime of “abortion trafficking” and criminalizes the “recruiting, harboring, or transporting” of minors without parental consent
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Abortion Pill Access in 2023: A Timeline
Mifepristone and misoprostol, two pills that are taken together to terminate a pregnancy, have been approved by the FDA since 2000. But access to these drugs have been in serious jeopardy this year, and a federal judge in Texas recently ruled to suspend the FDA’s decadeslong approval of mifepristone. The final outcome for abortion pill access in the U.S. is still unclear among confliction federal rulings — the issue will likely end up in the Supreme Court.
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Challenging State Abortion Bans in Light of FDA’s Rule Change on the Sale of Abortion Pills
The current legal landscape makes access to medication abortion crucial in protecting as much access to reproductive healthcare as possible and in protecting healthcare providers’ abilities to do their jobs without fear of prosecution.
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Ensuring reliable access to affordable sexual and reproductive care in uncertain times
To more effectively implement meaningful solutions that help ensure that access to affordable sexual and reproductive healthcare is treated as a right and not a privilege, we must identify and examine why these challenges persist.
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3 measures healthcare facilities should take to reduce maternal mortality rates post-Roe
Especially today, when more mothers’ health may be at risk, we can reduce potential harm and save thousands of lives through more evidence-based education, continuous training, and awareness that will help our obstetric care teams make informed and accurate medical decisions with effective interventions that mitigate complications early and often.
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Abortion travel benefits to become more common among employers after Dobbs decision
The survey reported 35% of respondents already offer travel and lodging benefits for abortions, while 16% plan to in 2023 and 21% are considering it.
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What do GCs need to know right now about abortion trigger bans, HIPAA and how to not break the law?
In an exclusive interview, an attorney at McDermott Will & Emery’s Post-Roe practice group answers questions about how Texas’ trigger ban laws will impact employers, whether HIPAA protections apply to abortion access and the latest in Washington on rulemaking to strengthen ERISA preemption defense.
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Texas sues HHS, claims the agency is trying to turn ERs into abortion clinics
The attorney general of Texas says the recent federal mandates and guidance issued to healthcare providers to protect abortion access are unconstitutional and conflict with state law.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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How one company has moved to support reproductive rights despite looming regulatory uncertainty
The reversal of Roe v. Wade led Forma to make a series of changes to its reproductive health benefits on top of what it originally offered — both for its internal employees and its customers.
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Data privacy in a post-Roe world
The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Dobbs will create a big mess around what data will be revealed and the repercussions that will come when data are obtained. Individuals will bear the brunt of the burden while it all gets figured out.
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Conservative majority on Supreme Court, as expected, end nationwide right to abortion
The decision about whether to allow the procedure now falls to individual state governments, and only 16, plus the District of Columbia, have passed laws to preserve the option, while two others have state constitutional protections that have been cited by state courts as protections for abortion.
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Experts say final Supreme Court opinion will closely match leaked one
“I don’t think Justice Samuel Alito could be persuaded to change anything. He’s got the votes. Unless Chief Justice John Roberts can convince him to soften something” said Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
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If “Roe v Wade” falls, more than half of states expected to ban or restrict abortion
If the Supreme Court’s conservative majority affirms the leaked decision overturning abortion rights in the U.S., the effects would be sweeping for 40 million women in more than two dozen states where Republican-led legislatures have been eagerly awaiting the repudiation of the right to terminate a pregnancy.