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White House marking one year since Roe v. Wade reversal |
The Biden administration is spending the next two days marking the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. |
During a rally on Friday, President Biden, Vice President Harris and the nation's top abortion rights groups will likely highlight how the administration has tried to preserve and expand abortion access, as well as call attention to how Republicans across the country are backing restrictive abortion laws. During the event, EMILY's List, Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America are planning to endorse Biden and Harris for reelection as a way to highlight how important the issue of abortion will be for Democrats moving forward. Ever since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, abortion has been a winning issue for Democrats. It helped propel them to a better-than-expected result in the midterm elections last fall and will remain pivotal in the 2024 presidential race. Democrats don't have the votes to codify abortion protections into law, though the White House has worked over the past year to make its case for reproductive rights. The administration has taken limited actions over the past year, and Biden has called on Americans to elect more Democrats in order to protect abortion rights. The Dobbs decision gives the Biden administration a tangible way to argue that a Republican in the White House could open a path for a possible future national ban — something leading anti-abortion rights groups are pressing GOP presidential candidates to commit to backing. The Republican response to Dobbs is playing out in real time, with some GOP lawmakers leaning into their anti-abortion rights credentials and others holding back. Meanwhile, the decision has seemingly energized Democrats and abortion rights supporters to be much more proactive. A Gallup poll published earlier this month found 69 percent of Americans said abortion should generally be legal during the first three months of pregnancy, a record-high for the survey. A majority did not approve of later-term abortions, but more than in the pre-Dobbs years. |
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Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said he is worried about the future of the U.S. due to what he described as the “normalization of untruths.” While appearing at The Hill’s Future of Health Care Summit on Thursday, Fauci was asked if he was worried about the country as it heads into the 2024 election season. As The Hill’s Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack noted, Fauci has already made appearances … |
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| A Florida rule excluding gender-affirming health care from Medicaid coverage is unlawful and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, adding that the policy, enacted last year under the administration of Republican Gov. and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, is based on politics rather than medicine. Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which controls most of the state's Medicaid program, in August adopted … |
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The vaccination advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday voted in favor of recommending vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to be administered to seniors. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted in favor of recommending RSV vaccines for adults older than 65. The committee also voted in favor of permitting individual adults between the ages of … |
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Transgender sports ban heads to North Carolina governor's desk |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Transgender girls in North Carolina would no longer be allowed to play on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a proposal that received final legislative approval on Thursday. The GOP-controlled state House voted 62-43 to send the bill to the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who has … | |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Mississippi ranks as the unhealthiest state in the entire country, again (Mississippi Today)
- Opioid-related overdose deaths reached new high in Massachusetts in 2022, DPH says (CBS News)
- State Medicaid review culls 15,000 beneficiaries in first month (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- E-Cigarette sales tapered off last year after big surge (The New York Times)
- Muscular dystrophy patients get first gene therapy (NPR)
- Black, rural southern women at gravest risk from pregnancy miss out on maternal health aid (KFF Health News)
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House Republicans were not able to convince the two-thirds majority they needed to overturn President Biden's veto of a resolution that would have … Read more |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said attorneys for former President Trump in the classified and sensitive documents case will have a "bad Christmas" … Read more |
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