Health insurers can support the fight for reproductive health rights by improving their benefits and using their power to enact change with lawmakers, said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She made these comments at the AHIP 2023 conference in Portland.
Under the proposed new rule, employers are no longer able to be exempt from covering contraception due to moral convictions, but religious exemptions still remain. It's an important move from the government during the reproductive health crisis, one advocate said.
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Following the Dobbs decision, it's vital for employers to support their employees' reproductive rights, executives from Planned Parenthood and Maven Clinic stressed at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas.
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According to the motion, more than one third of Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s abortion patients between July 1 and September 30, 2022 came from out of state, totalling 1,317 people. In the same time period last year, just 322 patients came from out of state for abortions.
The proposal would require facilities receiving federal family planning funds to be physically separate from those that perform abortion; would eliminate the requirement that women with unintended pregnancies be counseled on their full range of reproductive options; and would ban abortion referrals.
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Also, Versant Ventures announces investment in Turnstone Biologics and the Senate is planning a budget vote to repeal major Obamacare mandates and defund Planned Parenthood as early as November.
Former John's Hopkins neuroseorgion and GOP candidate Ben Carson has been vocal about criticizing Planned Parenthood, as it's currently under the microscope, but some of his previous research also involved the use of fetal tissue samples.
Another undercover video of a Planned Parenthood executive has been released, and the sickle cell drug developer Global Blood is planning for a $115 million IPO.
Republican presidential candidate and and retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson seems to be on a mission to say things that could rule out a large chunk of American voters.
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California and Oregon are the only two states in the country that now allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control to women without consulting a doctor first.
Following the release of a controversial tape involving a top official from Planned Parenthood, a response has been released.