In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Mifepristone Wars—and What They Mean for Black Women
Still concentrated in Southern states that ban abortion, Black women disproportionately rely on telehealth, which the Supreme Court has allowed—provisionally—to continue.
Posted inLaw and Justice
History Teaches: Reproductive Rights and Equality
A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
States Can Protect Public Health When the Feds Do Nothing
Lessons from California and AIDS
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Vaccine Confusion Reigns Under MAHA Regime
The best solution is something every other major economy has already figured out: universal health care.
Posted inTAP
The CDC Crisis and Republican Complicity
Today on TAP: Will the destruction of the Centers for Disease Control finally push the Republican Congress to constrain Trump’s science deniers?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Order to Cut Drug Prices Would Raise Drug Prices
The so-called ‘pill penalty’ fix is a corporate favor designed to increase the period where prescriptions are immune from price negotiations.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
Posted inTAP
The Coming Trump Pandemic
The FDA expert panel on vaccines, barred from meeting by RFK Jr., needs to continue operating as part of a necessary government-in-exile.