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State of the Union guests put spotlight on reproductive health |
Democrats are inviting to Thursday's State of the Union fertility doctors, IVF patients and women from red states who were denied life-saving abortions, as lawmakers continue to highlight reproductive health ahead of the November elections. |
Democrats want to remind voters of their efforts to protect access to abortion and most recently have seized on the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that frozen embryos are children. They are looking to hold Republicans' feet to the fire and force them to answer uncomfortable questions about the full impact of fetal personhood. President Biden is expected to speak about reproductive rights in his speech Thursday night to argue that Republicans — especially former President Trump, the likely GOP nominee — are a threat to individual freedoms like abortion and in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Republicans have raced to distance themselves from the Alabama ruling, but congressional Democrats and Biden say it is the logical extension of Republicans' anti-abortion views and are seeking to tie the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will bring Elizabeth Carr — the first person to be born via in-vitro fertilization in the U.S. — as his State of the Union guest. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said she is bringing Illinois reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist Dr. Amanda Adeleye. Duckworth had two daughters through IVF and is the lead Senate sponsor of a bill creating federal IVF protections. Sen. Cindy Hyde- Smith (R-Miss.) last week blocked Duckworth's attempt to expedite its passage. Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.) invited Amanda Zurawski, who is suing Texas after she said she nearly died when doctors delayed giving her a medically necessary abortion until she went into septic shock. First Lady Jill Biden invited Kate Cox as one of her guests. Cox is a Texas resident who fled the state to get abortion care after the state Supreme Court denied her an emergency abortion to terminate a nonviable pregnancy. |
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter, we're Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi — every week we follow the latest moves on how Washington impacts your health. |
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How policy will be impacting the health care sector this week and beyond: |
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The House committee investigating the coronavirus pandemic response issued a subpoena Tuesday for former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his alleged failure to cooperate with a probe into the state's COVID-19 nursing home policies. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic is demanding Cuomo appear for a closed-door deposition on May 24. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), the subcommittee’s chairman, … |
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| Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) announced a program on Monday that will cancel $2 billion in medical debt for Arizonans. "Today, I am so proud to announce that we are taking steps to retire medical debt for up to an estimated 1 million Arizonans," Hobbs said at a press conference Monday. "That's a fresh start, a new chapter and a huge weight taken off the shoulders for every single one of them." Hobbs said that by using up to … |
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Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found. Once there, these chemicals can mimic — or disrupt — the effects of the hormones estrogen and testosterone on the body, according to the study published Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology. Other chemicals discovered in the plastic packaging bind to chemical receptors that … |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on the Older Americans Act
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Lab leader pleads no contest to manslaughter in 2012 Michigan meningitis deaths |
The co-founder of a specialty pharmacy that was at the center of a deadly national meningitis outbreak in 2012 pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Michigan, authorities said Tuesday. Under a deal, Barry Cadden’s prison sentence of 10 to 15 years will be served at the same time as his current 14 1/2-year federal sentence … | |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- On Super Tuesday, abortion is driving Democrats to the polls in North Carolina (NPR)
- Wyoming's new abortion regulations could mean the end of last clinic (USA Today)
- Bills aimed at restarting Alabama IVF programs in position for final votes (Alabama Reflector)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic (Stat)
- Statistical models vs. front-line workers: who knows best how to spend opioid settlement cash? (KFF Health News)
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Former President Trump demanded he receive a new trial after a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll's defamation … Read more |
| Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig on Monday called the Supreme Court decision allowing former President Trump to remain on the presidential ballot … Read more |
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