CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. Email or DM, thanks!
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine is out with new clinical guidance affirming Tylenol as the “first-line” defense against pain and fever during pregnancy - months after Trump's unsupported claims that it could lead to autism in children: https://t.co/VZoXNQUHIG
The increasing costs of fuel for cars and airplanes is adding extra strain to abortion funds that help people pay to travel for care in other states. By Kelcie Moseley-Morris: https://t.co/VU1CoymYKD
Black midwives in the South, a region rife with racial disparities in maternal health access and maternal mortality, are leading lawsuits over state regulations that they say limit their ability to provide care. By Elisha Brown: https://t.co/RRUc63LJgY
NEWS: DC Circuit rules the Trump administration's policy banning transgender military members is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs can continue to serve. Their lawyers are seeking class action status for the case.
BREAKING THIS MORNING: Trump order limiting voting by mail will stand for now, federal judge rules -- by @jonshorman for States Newsroom DC https://t.co/4N59ijITCX
The Alabama Supreme Court's 2024 "extrauterine children" ruling that temporarily upended IVF treatments in the state inspired abortion-abolitionist Kriss Martenson to try a similar tactic in Utah: https://t.co/qNkGaj0tsv
SCOOPLET: The FDA says it is studying the safety of mifepristone, an abortion pill. The study hasn't started yet - it's been held up for months by bureaucratic delays at HHS headquarters, per 2 people familiar. w/ @PamBelluck
https://t.co/n6Pa8JgnOI
Mike Johnson on mifepristone: "By mailing the drugs to women across state lines, you go around state laws. It's a serious problem. Abortions have increased in numbers since Dobbs overturned Roe, and that's a great concern to us. The mailing of this drug is a very dangerous thing."
“If the Congress won’t act, & if somebody else won’t act, then veterans ourselves will stand up & say, ‘fine, we will act, we will fight for our country & for our people the way that we have always done,’” Lindsay Church of Minority Veterans of America, the petitioner, told me.
INSIDE THE COURT HEARING ON TRUMP'S ELECTION ORDER: Thursday marked the first courtroom showdown over the Trump executive order that critics say creates an illegal national voter list; reporting from @Ashley__Murray & @jonshorman for States Newsroom DC
https://t.co/SMNXKZDeCo
Had a great convo last night with Kyle Diamantas, the new acting FDA Commissioner. In other words, within hours of being handed this big new job, he was on the phone with pro-life leaders - which is an encouraging sign of where his priorities lie.
After talking w him I'm optimistic that the cause of Life will get a full and fair hearing at the FDA, incl real movement on the mifepristone safety study.
@US_FDA looking forward to working with you in this new era to make sure abortion drug companies can't continue to lie to women about their drugs that are NOT "safer than tylenol" and that abusive men are stopped from ordering these dangerous drugs on the internet and force-feeding them to pregnant women.
NEWS - Speaker Mike Johnson tells @politico that Republicans can pass a third reconciliation bill focused on affordability and GOP priorities by the END OF JULY
We’ll see if that’s possible
Plus, House Republicans defy President Trump on the stalled housing bill and more — amid growing anger within the WH over what was supposed to be a major cost of living policy win months ago
https://t.co/tmpQ4Q814T @politico
SCOTUS' hold on a ruling that will determine remote access to the abortion drug mifepristone expires Monday. An FAQ about what this means right now: https://t.co/tDFL2uRZpp
Republicans, triumphant over their SCOTUS victory, are rushing fresh gerrymanders through Southern statehouses in time for the November midterm elections in an effort to strengthen their party’s control over the region’s U.S. House delegations, @jonshorman reports. Link in reply.