When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and a half-century of settled abortion rights two years ago, Donald Trump said it would be bad for Republicans. He obviously meant himself, as last week he clumsily offered a few different stands on abortion as he tries to find his footing, ...
by Robin Abcarian Warren Hern is every bit as intense as you would expect of someone who has been threatened with death for most of his career. One of the few American physicians who performs late-term abortions, the 86-year-old has perhaps more than any other doctor been on the ...
It is infuriating as well as alarming that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday failed to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a straightforward bill that would guarantee a federal right to safe and legal contraception. The bill needed 60 votes to proceed but only received 51, all but two of those ...
We’re not fans of special legislative sessions (which you already know if you regularly read our editorials). However, every once in a blue moon, they can be justified, and the concurrent May interims and special session showed that they can be done responsibly, without abusing taxpayer ...
by Mary McNamara The historic failure of medical research to acknowledge that women’s bodies differ from men’s has a new catchphrase: Ozempic babies. According to recent reports, all of them anecdotal and many of them on TikTok, off-label use of diabetes drugs including Ozempic, ...
As we like to say in West Virginia, thank goodness for Mississippi (and Alabama). Otherwise, the Mountain State would be dead last in everything. As it stands, several recent rankings put West Virginia consistently in the worst five to 10 states for women’s physical and financial ...