May 31 4 ways groups are making period care easier and more equitable By Courtney Vinopal From U.S. prisons to rural communities in India, activists and companies are working to improve feminine hygiene care for all. Continue reading
May 31 Missouri's only abortion clinic can keep stay open, according to judge's order By Jim Salter, David A. Lieb, Associated Press St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer issued a temporary restraining order preventing Missouri from taking away the clinic's license. He said Planned Parenthood "has demonstrated that immediate and irreparable injury will result" if its abortion license is allowed to expire. Continue reading
May 30 Judge considering Missouri abortion clinic license case By Jim Salter, Summer Ballentine, Associated Press If the St. Louis clinic's license is not renewed before it expires at midnight Friday, Planned Parenthood officials said Missouri would become the first state without a functioning abortion clinic since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing… Continue reading
May 30 Watch 7:52 Planned Parenthood: 'It's simply not true' Mo. abortion clinic breaks rules Missouri is part of a recent wave of state laws that would ban abortion almost entirely, sometimes without exceptions for rape and incest. The state is also making news on abortion for trying to deny its one remaining abortion provider,… Continue watching
May 30 Watch 5:01 Anti-abortion group says Mo. Planned Parenthood violated patient safety The national abortion debate is raging with renewed fervor, as a series of states pass restrictive laws banning almost all instances of the procedure. Among those states is Missouri, where officials are also trying to shutter its only remaining abortion… Continue watching
May 30 Louisiana's Democratic governor signs abortion ban into law By Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the measure Thursday, making Louisiana the fifth state to enact such a law, joining Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio and Georgia. Continue reading
May 29 Louisiana abortion ban sent to governor's desk By Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press Louisiana lawmakers on Wednesday passed a strict new abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure before some women even know they are pregnant, joining a half-dozen conservative states with similar measures. Continue reading
May 29 How this new pacemaker harvests energy from the heart By Harini Barath, Scientific American Scientists have successfully tested a heartbeat-powered pacemaker in living pigs, whose hearts are similar to humans’ in size and function. Continue reading
May 29 50 years later, a daunting cleanup of the Vietnam War's toxic legacy continues By George Black, Yale Environment 360 From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a… Continue reading
May 28 Thousands of unvaccinated kindergartners allowed to enroll without waivers By Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press Unvaccinated or undervaccinated kindergartners in at least 10 states were allowed to enroll provisionally for the last school year, without any formal exemption. Continue reading