Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2025

Texas and Trump: Failing Grades on Abortion and Measles

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A couple of recent articles show the impact of massive public-health failures on the part of both the state of Texas and the federal governm...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New Article on Regulation of Abortion and Federal/State Divide

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My colleagues, Profs. Joanna Grossman and Nathan Cortez, have published an important article: "Who Regulates Abortion Now?," 110 I...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

SCOTUS Adds Medicaid Exclusion of Planned Parenthood to its Docket

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Add another case to my SCOTUS "roundup" ( Dec. 1 ). SCOTUSBlog notes that the Supreme Court has granted review of the 4th Circuit...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

Reprise: Does EMTALA Pre-Empt Restrictive State Abortion Laws?

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Back in June I discussed the applicability of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to pregnant persons who come to hospita...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

The Cruelty of Texas's Abortion Ban (SB 8)

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A recent MSNBC News report (posted July 11, 2024, 4:19 PM CDT) illustrates the casual cruelty of Texas Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Infant Mortality in Texas -- Already High -- Increased After SB 8 and Dobbs

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A new study in JAMA Pediatrics  (June 24, 2024) (abstract  here , apparently free, at least for a while) finds that infant and neonatal deat...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Does EMTALA Require Medically-Appropriate Abortion Even in the Absence of a State Exception for Emergency Medical Conditions? [Updated June 27]

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One of the most eagerly awaited opinions yet to be released by SCOTUS is -- or was  (see below) -- Moyle v. United States , Docket No. 23-72...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Texas Medical Board Punts (Again) on Emergency Exception to Abortion Ban

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This past Friday, June 21, the TMB issued a final rule "[that amends] 22 TAC 165 by adding . . . section[s] 165.7-165.9 concerning Exc...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

SCOTUS: Mifepristone Remains Available Despite 5th Circuit Ruling

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A unanimous Supreme Court today reversed a Fifth Circuit opinion that held that various actions taken by the FDA with respect to its regulat...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

JAMA: Texas Medical Board Dropped the Ball with its Abortion "Exceptions" Rule

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The authors of an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association (published on-line today) offer their critique of the ...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Spike in ER Refusals of Pregnancy-Related Emergency Care After Dobbs Decision

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A story from the Associated Press  (AP, 4/19/24) reports that "more than two dozen complaints about emergency pregnancy care were lodge...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Texas Medical Board Publishes Proposed Rules Re: Exceptions to Texas's Abortion Ban

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It took a strongly worded "suggestion" from the Texas Supreme Court (in its "know-nothing" opinion in the Kate Cox case ...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

JAMA On-line: Scorn for Approach of Texas Supreme Court and AG in Cases Involving Exceptions to Abortion Ban

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In an excellent on-line (and free) commentary in JAMA (Jan. 22, 2024), three Harvard authors ask the question: "Whose Responsibility I...

JAMA: Increased Depression & Anxiety in Trigger States After Dobbs Decision

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In a free article in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA. 2024;331(4):294-301. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.25599 ) (PDF), rese...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

How Much Does the Fifth Circuit Care About Public Health?

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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a couple of decisions this week that surprised me a lot (except that this 5th Circuit is th...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Ruth Marcus: Calling Out the Texas Supreme Court for its Opinion in the Kate Cox Case

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Ruth Marcus is one of the most acute observers of political cultural and political life in this country. Now add legal commentary to her too...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Kaiser: Who Decides When a Patient Qualifies for an Abortion Ban Exception? Doctors vs. the Courts

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 Here's a thoughtful brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation on abortion-ban exceptions around the country. It starts with a quick summ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Texas Supreme Court Puts an Exclamation Point on Kate Cox's Doomed Quest for Reproductive Health Care in Texas

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Late yesterday (12/11) the Supreme Court of Texas issued a seven-page per curiam   opinion that reversed the trial court's order in the...