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The Democratic congresswomen of the House Oversight Committee are putting pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to lift the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone a prescription medication that’s used to safely end early pregnancies in the United States. During the coronavirus pandemic, safe access to medication abortion is more important than ever, but being required to obtain the medication in person places a burden on individuals. Below, Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and Committee Member Ayanna Pressley explain how onerous these restrictions really are and urge the FDA to lift them immediately.
For more than two decades, people in the United States have taken mifepristone to safely end their pregnancies. But despite
You re pregnant, or you’re breastfeeding. Should you get a COVID-19 vaccine?
That’s a question on the minds of many military frontline health care workers today. The short answer is that it’s an individual’s choice, and military health experts say the vaccine is well worth considering.
As the COVID-19 vaccines continue to be administered across military hospitals and smaller clinics and outposts under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, the advice from the military and a multitude of national maternal and fetal health professional associations is the same: For most pregnant people, getting the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible is the safest choice based on the science to date.
Chairman Casey and members of the House Health and Human Services committee:
My name is Courtney Joslin and I am a Resident Fellow for the R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization whose mission is to engage in policy research that supports free markets and limited, effective government. I lead R Street’s research on state policies for birth control access, with a focus on sensible deregulatory efforts such as pharmacist-prescribed birth control. I appreciate the opportunity to elaborate on how other states have safely increased access to effective family planning methods with this model.
To date, 17 states and Washington, D.C., now allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal birth control. While first available in Oregon in 2016, the pharmacy access model has been studied for its safety and ability to increase birth control access for over a decade. A 2008 trial study in the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association found that almost all
Republican Lawmakers Attempt to Restrict Abortion Access In Montana
After nearly two decades of a Democratic governor vetoing anti-abortion legislation, Montana is poised for a major change and possible legal battles over laws that allow for broad access to abortion.
Gov. Greg Gianforte has been outspoken against abortion access since starting down the campaign trail last year.
“I will be very clear: I am pro-life, he said. I think life is precious and it needs to be protected.”
“We must protect the lives of the most vulnerable: unborn children.
During his address, Gianforte implored lawmakers to send him two bills to sign one that would ban most abortions at 20 weeks and another to require doctors to care for infants born alive after an attempted abortion. The latter scenario is one experts say is extremely rare, and it has been noted that infanticide is already illegal.
Company news: Associate’s for Women’s Medicine adds Dr. Catherine Bailey to practice Syracuse.com 2/17/2021
Dr. Catherine Bailey has become the newest partner of Associates for Women’s Medicine.
Dr. Bailey was born and raised in Central New York and has been serving the medical community in the Syracuse area for almost 10 years. After completing a bachelor of arts degree at the College of the Holy Cross and a master of public health degree at the University of Michigan, Dr. Bailey returned home for her medical education.
She completed her medical degree and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Bailey is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and is a fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.