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It's been six months since the Texas law banning almost all abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy took effect. Doctors and patients feel frustrated as they navigate the new legal environment.
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Cervical cancer, which is largely preventable, and if caught early, highly treatable, has an outsized impact on Black women's mortality, a January study finds.
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Plaintiffs said it was unusual for the Fifth Circuit to hold oral arguments and that it simply needed to send the case back to the lower court.
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The agency's decision to ease access to the drug mifepristone comes at a time when abortion rights are being increasingly restricted nationwide.
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The high court dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's request to block the law.
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The CDC released two reports Friday following months of warnings from doctors and health officials that this group is particularly vulnerable to COVID.
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Clinicians say they are seeing an influx of "panicked" patients trying to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
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Advocates for abortion rights used to commonly assert that the procedure should be "safe, legal and rare," but that motto has become deeply controversial as the movement tries to remove stigma.
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday over the law.
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Researchers say the drop in procedures has been steeper than when other new abortion restrictions have gone into effect in Texas.