Jean Peters Baker is part of a project that aims to educate other prosecutors across the country over how to navigate this new legal arena.
“If we’re thinking of a fetus as an actual person with rights, then a whole bunch of other stuff has to change,” said Chris Ellis, the co-director of the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy.
Though anyone can contract monkeypox, men who have sex with men are disproportionately affected. Limited vaccines are available.
Given the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade, access to birth control is likely to become a major focus for people of childbearing age.
A letter from the Department of Health and Human Services explicitly states that the procedure can be used to stabilize a patient during a medical emergency under EMTALA rules.
Providers hope the new clinics can help serve the surge of patients now expected to travel for abortions.
35 states have marriage bans, and experts doubt that Congress could codify marriage equality.
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The order comes two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion.