As life-preserving medical technology advanced in the second half of the 20th century, doctors and families were faced with a thorny decision, one with weighty legal and moral implications: How should we define when life ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for abortions. ...
Aug 23, 2022
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About a half-million men undergo a vasectomy in the United States in any given year. The percentage of men getting them had been dropping for the past two decades, but it looks like those numbers are going up in the wake ...
Aug 5, 2022
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A Minnesota jury is expected to decide by the end of this week whether a woman's human rights were violated when a pharmacist denied her request to fill a prescription for emergency contraception, sometimes called the morning-after ...
Aug 2, 2022
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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when false information about the virus began to spread on Twitter, physicians and scientists from Northwestern Medicine and other institutions banded together to combat the deadly ...
Jul 25, 2022
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Pharmacies must fill prescriptions for medications that could potentially end a pregnancy, the Biden administration said Wednesday.
Jul 14, 2022
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More than 80% of Americans have a widely used herbicide lurking in their urine, a new government study suggests.
Jul 12, 2022
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A study conducted by UC San Francisco reveals the long-term adverse effects of unwanted pregnancy on people's lives, pointing to widespread challenges that will result from the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn the constitutional ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. These involve taking two prescription medicines days apart—at home or in a clinic.
Jul 2, 2022
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Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, access to birth control has taken on new urgency. By moving the decision about abortion access to states, the fall of Roe v. Wade means ...
Jun 30, 2022
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