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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
National medical org asks to join Tennessee lawsuit to advocate for abortion access
Doctors for America is trying to join a Tennessee lawsuit to ensure women can get abortions when their lives or health depend on the procedure. The organization is a national collection of more than 30,000 medical professionals that advocates for policies that expand access to affordable health care. Doctors for America on May 30 asked to intervene in a lawsuit brought by a different health care group, the Catholic Medical Association, which opposes abortion access. Catholic Medical Association sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Jan. 10 looking to overturn a 2022 directive that federal law requires hospitals provide abortions if doing so is necessary to stabilize a medical crisis. 'Doctors should not be forced to choose between following the law and saving a patient's life,' Dr. Christine Petrin, president of Doctors for America, said in a news release. Doctors for America is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee, the National Women's Law Center and Democracy Forward. Doctors for America explained in its May 30 filing it is intervening now because of the change in presidential administrations. "DFA cannot rely on the federal government to adequately defend (its) interests," the court filing states. More: What are abortion laws in Tennessee and where is the procedure legal? The law at question here is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a 1986 federal law often referred to as EMTALA. The law ensures the public can access emergency health care even if they cannot pay. In the wake of the overturning of Roe V. Wade in 2022, during President Joe Biden's administration, HHS issued guidance that EMTALA requires that emergency rooms that accept Medicaid provide abortions when they are medically necessary, even if doing so violates a state law prohibiting abortion. That guidance was challenged in court and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to give a ruling on it. It seems likely the current iteration of the HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will reverse the previous administration's position. In a filing in this lawsuit in April, it wrote, "New leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services is actively considering how best to respond to the Complaint ... including to evaluate whether it may be possible to resolve this case without litigation" — meaning the Catholic Medical Association may get what it wants through a policy change. The Catholic Medical Association has argued that the 2022 guidance ensuring access to medically necessary abortion care runs afoul of the Supreme Court precedent set in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled there is not a constitutional right to abortion. The Catholic organization said it is urging the court to "allow doctors to perform their life-giving duties without fear of government officials forcing them to violate their beliefs.' More: Federal judge temporarily blocks part of TN's abortion travel ban on free speech grounds While most, if not all, state laws allow for abortions to be performed in very limited circumstances, Carrie Flaxman, senior legal advisor at Democracy Forward, said revoking EMTALA's guidance on abortion will "sow confusion for providers." 'Pregnant people have suffered needlessly, and some have died, because of the chaos and confusion that abortion bans have caused for patients and their doctors,' Flaxman said. Have questions about the justice system? Evan Mealins is the justice reporter for The Tennessean. Contact him with questions, tips or story ideas at emealins@ This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Medical org asks to join TN lawsuit to advocate for abortion access
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Experts sound the alarm over 'shocking' study showing significant risks to women who take abortion pills
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways A new study exposing a significant number of "serious adverse events" occurring among women who have taken mifepristone, also known as the "abortion pill," has sparked an outcry from the pro-life community, including experts who spoke to Fox News Digital about what the study means for women in the United States. "The biggest thing that will shock most readers of this report is just how different the findings in this study are from what the FDA claims on the abortion drug label," Katie Glenn Daniel, SBA Pro Life America director of legal affairs, told Fox News Digital about the recently released study. "What they found is that more than one in ten women will go to the emergency room seeking follow-up care after taking the abortion drugs. The FDA claims that's more like one in 20 women, which is still concerning, right? If you've got a one in twenty chance of something happening, you might take that seriously, but one in 10. It is shocking," she continued. "This means hundreds of thousands of American women have gone to the hospital for complications from abortions through these abortion drugs and the FDA was not collecting information about those situations. So this study shines a light on what has been happening, what ER doctors certainly know is happening. But what our public health institutions have turned a blind eye to." Mifepristone is a "pregnancy blocker" that is used in combination with another medication, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies, according to Mayo Clinic. It is also used to manage early miscarriages, as it helps prepare the body to empty the uterus. Roe V. Wade Is Gone, But Abortion Still The Number 1 Killer Worldwide A new study shows that a significant number of women have been hurt by the abortion pill. Research by the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., has revealed that the rate of serious side effects is 22 times higher than what is indicated on the FDA-approved drug label. Read On The Fox News App After going through an abortion assisted by mifepristone, nearly 11% of women — more than one in 10 — reported experiencing "infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event," according to the study summary. "These reports, which analyzed the largest known data set of real-world mifepristone use, confirm what physicians like me and our members are seeing in our clinical practice: that abortion drugs pose significant dangers to women," Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB/GYN, told Fox News Digital. "I have had patients face life-threatening hemorrhage, infection, and more after taking these drugs, which are now available to order online without an in-person physician visit to confirm the age of the pregnancy and rule out risk factors. The fact that these data show a serious complication rate that is 22 times higher than what the FDA states reveals the urgent need for further investigation into complications of drug-induced abortions and for policymakers and agencies to reprioritize women's safety over the interests of the abortion industry. Women and their children deserve better care than these dangerous drugs." Scoop: Republicans Discuss Defunding 'Big Abortion' Like Planned Parenthood In Trump Agenda Bill Pro-abortion rights activists participate in the "Rally for Our Freedom" to protect abortion rights for Floridians in Orlando, Florida. Mifepristone, which the Biden administration took steps to ensure was made available to women through the mail, is the most well-known abortion pill in the United States, and approximately 63% of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023 were medication abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. This was an increase from 53% in 2020. "We knew that the Biden administration's changes to the abortion drug prescribing, which included allowing these drugs to be sent through to mail. We knew that that was harmful for women and girls because there is no medical oversight," Daniel told Fox News Digital. "You don't even know if a pregnant woman's getting these drugs. There have been cases where men order these drugs, to slip them to somebody. The state of Louisiana has a case right now where a mother ordered them and forced her daughter to take them, even though the pregnancy was wanted. So you really lose a lot of the safeguards that are in place when somebody actually physically goes to a doctor's office." Daniel told Fox News Digital she hopes this report will encourage the Trump administration's FDA to take action to ensure that women and unborn children are protected. Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy and manage early miscarriage. "A drug that puts one in ten women in the hospital is certainly not a drug that is quote unquote good for women or caring for women and I think we need to be realistic about that," Daniel said. Daniel also explained that the true harm from the pill is likely even worse than the study only includes certain years and only women who used insurance. "So there are tons of women, including those who are the most vulnerable, who are left out of this data," Daniel pointed out. "There is a lot more to look out here," Daniel continued. "We see this as the starting point of what the FDA, the CDC, our public health institutions, and our physicians need to be looking at. And we need to have an honest conversation about the fact that 20 years of data shows that these drugs are deadly for children, but they're also very dangerous for in girls." The study drew the attention of members of Congress as well, including GOP Rep. Riley Moore who pointed a finger at Democrats in a thread on X. "They knew this was extremely risky for women," Moore said. "So why would they do it? Simple: They wanted to undermine state pro-life laws to advance their abortion-on-demand with no exceptions agenda." Fox News Digital's Melissa Rudy contributed to this report Original article source: Experts sound the alarm over 'shocking' study showing significant risks to women who take abortion pills
Forbes
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Hulu's Best New Show Arrives With A Surprising 100% Critic Score
Handmaid's Tale Hulu may not be top of mind when we're talking about some of the best shows in streaming all that often, and when we do, it's all its FX-linked programming. I'd say Only Murders in the Building is the main exception here. But now there's another series racking up a perfect critic score in what will be its final season, about to air this week. That would be The Handmaid's Tale, which will return April 8 for its sixth and final season. It's the one that has gotten this perfect 100% score with a dozen or so critics having seen it already, and that's higher than it's ever been, even more so than the groundbreaking season 1 back when this was one of the most talked-about series of 2017. We can compare all those scores below: Handmaid's Tale Well, I was wondering why this series fell out of favor and essentially everyone stopped talking about it, and I think it's pretty clear why from those figures. Critic scores dipped, but not that much, but audience scores absolutely crashed as the series went on. I legitimately thought that the series ended when (spoilers) the Commander was killed back in season 4 in 2021, but apparently that was not the case. It looks like I shouldn't have stayed around for season 5, given those audience scores. I did feel like the show got worse in time, but that's a pretty stunning figure. The show just has zero buzz anymore when back in season 1 and even 2 it was the talk of the town. The only time I hear it brought up anymore is conceptually, as a reference to Donald Trump's policies like his influence in getting Roe V. Wade overturned, for one, through the Supreme Court. The question now is A) if these 100% scores will stick or drop when more critic reviews come in and B) if audiences will return for the finale and stop hating the show like they have for apparently the last few seasons. I would normally say this may be some sort of 'woke/DEI' culture review bombing, but I don't think so because the show is so low-profile now I don't know who would bother. But we'll see how the final season goes starting on Tuesday. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, and Bluesky Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
