Why some doctors are questioning Trump’s new birth control rules
The Trump administration's new birth control rule is raising questions among some doctors and researchers, who say it overlooks known benefits of contraception while selectively citing data that raise doubts about effectiveness and safety.
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Keeping a promise to conservatives, Trump administration guts Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate
New rules from the Trump administration on contraception coverage could affect hundreds of thousands for whom the cost of birth control would go from free to full retail cost, potentially putting it out of reach for many low-income women. The…
Norma McCorvey, plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, dies at 69
Norma McCorvey, who under the pseudonym “Jane Roe” served as the plaintiff in the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, died Saturday at 69.
Trump’s Supreme Court pick is deeply opposed to assisted suicide
Neil Gorsuch opposes all forms of assisted suicide and ruled twice against the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate but has never ruled on abortion.
Two days after Donald Trump won the presidential election, Mary Ellison, a single mother in Champaign, Ill., called her gynecologist’s office to explore her birth control options. "I know what you’re going to ask," Ellison’s gynecologist told her.
Even before Donald Trump chooses a Supreme Court nominee, the new president can take steps to make several contentious court cases go away.
Changes in billing procedures, maternal health care advocates say, give women on Medicaid better access to the most effective and most expensive forms of contraception.
AUSTIN — Peggy Wall, a family nurse practitioner at a local community health center, treats many women in their 40s, who already have a family and find themselves confronting an accidental pregnancy.
Teen pregnancy is way down. And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives.
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