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Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
The dangerous anti-abortion victory buried in Trump's megabill
The Atlantic called the president's 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' the biggest anti-abortion victory since Roe v. Wade was overturned. That's because the mega-bill includes a provision that will bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements – not just for abortion but for any health service they provide. Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law is among the many experts warning that this defunding will have a devastating impact on reproductive healthcare, saying in many of the communities served by Planned Parenthood, 'there's no other place for [patients] to go. There's no other clinic, there's no other county provider, and we are talking about basic health care, like getting vaccinated or even getting prenatal care and postnatal care.' Amanda Zurawski, a reproductive rights activist who nearly died after being denied an abortion under Texas' ban, says stories like hers used to be shocking but are becoming so commonplace, as access to reproductive care is rolled back, that no one notices them anymore. 'We're seeing [lawmakers] coordinate these orchestrated efforts to restrict access, you know, in more sinister and unfortunately creative ways, and it's working. And I think we have to really stay vigilant, and we have to keep an eye on our elected officials,' Zurawski says.
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'The gloves are off': Analysts react to Barrett's jabs against Justice Jackson in birthright ruling
A "travesty for the rule of law" - the words of Justice Sonya Sotomayor as the six conservatives on the high court give Donald Trump another big victory, limiting the use of nationwide injunctions. Michele Goodwin and Mark Joseph Stern join The Weekend to discuss.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
George Conway: SCOTUS blocking deportations is ‘worst possible case' for the Trump admin
Friday the Supreme Court extended its order blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. George Conway and Michele Goodwin join The Weekend to discuss.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump administration probes California's sex education curriculum
SAN JOSE, Calif. - The state of California faced greater oversight from the federal government on Tuesday over how it implements sexual education. The state must now comply with a federal request as part of a medical accuracy review. What they're saying "It seems that everything is under attack that might have anything to do with the LGBTQ+ community," said Gabrielle Antolovich, executive director of the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center in San Jose. Local perspective Concerns grew after an action from the Administration for Children and Families, which sent a March 27 letter to the California Department of Public Health requesting "curricula and programmatic materials for its federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program," or PREP. PREP is a $75 million-a-year program that teaches children about contraception and abstinence. Federal officials said their request is permitted under the terms of the PREP grant. "All grant recipients of federally funded PREP money are expected to comply with all statutory requirements of PREP, including ensuring the programs are medically accurate and complete, and the program provides age-appropriate information and activities," Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison said. "There has become a movement that opposes sex education. It's an unwise movement. It's inconsistent with what has been the history in the United States," said Dr. Michele Goodwin, a Georgetown University law expert specializing in global health issues. "The narrative or what the thought process is behind constraining curriculum in this way is actually only hurting young Americans." She said the action put the country on a dangerous trajectory. Dig deeper Critics of the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' request said such moves increase pressure on protected groups, similar to when the president signed an executive order in January clarifying that the United States now recognizes only two genders. They argued that such hardline stances marginalize people and cause more social harm than good. "They are looking for practical ways to chip away at our freedom to be who we are," Antolovich said. "The people who are reviewing the curricula have no expertise in that area. So, they don't really know what they're doing. They just want to get rid of it." The California Department of Public Health has not yet responded to KTVU's request for comment. Jesse Gary is a reporter based in the station's South Bay bureau. Follow him on Instagram, @jessegontv and on Facebook, @JesseKTVU. The Source Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center in San Jose, Dr. Michele Goodwin of Georgetown Law
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘This is blood on the arrow that stabs at Democracy': Abortion bans threaten all our rights.
'We have to understand the dismantling of Roe as being an assault against democracy,' says Georgetown Law professor Michele Goodwin. This week, a Louisiana woman pleaded not guilty to a felony charge after allegedly giving her teenage daughter abortion-inducing medication that was prescribed and shipped from a doctor in New York, where the medication is legal. The NYC-based doctor was also indicted on a felony charge for allegedly prescribing and sending the medication to Louisiana after a telemedicine appointment. 'Once you begin to say that women's lives have no meaning, that their autonomy, that their equal protection, that all of the things that are protected in the constitutional rights do not apply to them, then you can say then for other people too in other circumstances.'
