Child Protective Services removed Mila Jackson from her home and placed her in foster care for 23 days after her parents chose their midwife’s care over a hospital.
The emergency rule from the state attorney general has been halted until May 1, as a Missouri judge considers a lawsuit seeking a longer temporary restraining order.
The case of Mila Jackson highlights the disregard of midwives’ expertise and the disproportionate impact of child welfare systems on Black families.
The ruling eliminates an Affordable Care Act requirement to cover PrEP medication, screening for sexually-transmitted infections, breastfeeding support and other measures that affect reproductive health.
Up to 15 million people — many of them children, pregnant and postpartum people — are expected to lose health care coverage after continuous enrollment ends, some as early as April 1.
Exemptions for intersex surgery allow doctors to assign minors who are born with secondary sex characteristics as “male” or “female,” reinforcing rigid gender ideals and heterosexuality, experts say.
The new rule for mammogram providers will allow patients to make better-informed decisions about further testing — helping with earlier breast cancer detection, diagnosis and life-saving treatment.
Experts say that the nation’s second-largest school system could influence districts across the country to adopt similar interventions, putting public schools on the frontlines of the fight against drug misuse.
Some experts fear that reinforcing a social framework that stresses that a child’s body size is something to be “fixed” could cause serious lifelong problems for children of all body sizes.
Florida has become a crucial access point for abortion in the region. A six-week ban could stop the wave of out-of-state patients coming in to access the procedure.