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The Biden administration’s announcement this month that it would allow mifepristone to be sent by mail revolutionized access to abortion in about half the country. Elsewhere, state laws requiring patients to meet with a provider in person preempt the new policy, underscoring just how much a person’s options depend on where they live.
Montana Gov.
Greg Gianforte (R) on Monday signed a series of bills that will curtail women’s access to abortions, including one that bans the procedure after 20 weeks. Gianforte adds Montana to a growing list of Republican-led states that have recently passed similar anti-abortion measures.
The Montana Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the most restrictive of the three bills, says it is preventing abortions after 20 weeks because “there is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain by 20 weeks gestational age.” However, the vastmajority of medical experts have rejected that claim for years, saying that the connections between the requisite nerves and the neurons that carry pain signals aren’t developed until the third trimester, typically around 26 or 27 weeks into a pregnancy.
On March 11th,
the Janssen vaccine whose laboratories belong to the Johnson & Johnson company was approved. In addition to this, four more have been integrated from the plan managed by the European Commission. Previously, the first Pfizer / BioNtech had already reached its approval on December 21st, 2020. Then, the Moderna appeared on January 6th and the AstraZeneca on January 29th.
The four
vaccines are authorized for distribution subject to conditions of clinical trials carried out since their inception. In other words, they are intended for the same populations for which they have already been approved in advance, through said evaluations.
Vaccinate pregnant and lactating women?
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