The agency makes it more clear that parents qualify for reimbursement if they need breast pumps and other resources to keep their babies fed.
Colorado has banned anonymous sperm and egg donation as well as regulated the number of families a single donor can be used to create. Donor-conceived activist Erin Jackson says this is only the start.
Different state definitions of personhood, designed with abortion in mind, may have legal ramifications for fertility treatment and embryos
About 126,000 families may benefit from this expansion, which health officials hope will reduce the number of pregnancy-related deaths.
Contraceptive restrictions would almost certainly face legal challenges. But the Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork for states to restrict access.
Some scholars and abortion providers worry that those who don’t know how to access pills, or who aren’t plugged into the right communities, could be at risk of harm.
Carla Cevasco, a history professor, spoke about the communities hardest hit by the shortage and the historic structures that made their situation more precarious.
Medication abortion is approved by the FDA, so for many people, if abortion becomes illegal the question about self-managing abortion is more one of criminal risk than medical risk.
Already, clinicians in Oklahoma are trying to devise strategies to help their patients get to clinics in other states because of a six-week ban. But there are limits to what they can do.
A new directive addresses fertility treatment, pregnancy and postpartum recovery – issues that have long affected soldiers’ careers, marriages and home life.