The USA Surgeon General has a mess on his hands. Roe v. Wade topples all sorts of medical interventions.
By Michael Collins
President Joe Biden (click here) will direct the federal government on Friday to take steps to protect access to abortion and other reproductive services following the recent Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Biden will sign an executive order instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to protect and expand access to abortion care, including access to medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration as safe and effective for over 20 years.
The order tasks the department with taking additional steps to expand access to reproductive health services, including family planning services and providers, emergency contraception and long-acting reversible contraception like intrauterine devices, according to a fact sheet distributed by the White House.
The administration also is promising to increase outreach and public education on access to reproductive health care serves, including abortion, and to take steps to ensure the safety of patients and providers, including mobile clinics sent to borders to provide care for out-of-state patients....
Republicans are upending lives. The president needs to freeze this access until he and the Congress can address these insults to American lives. The prison system is not big enough either. End capital punishment!
July 7, 2002
Technology giants (click here) including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google, facing questions about whether they’d hand over users’ personal data to authorities pursuing evidence on abortion seekers, are bracing for the multi-state legal quagmire that will govern privacy in a post-Roe world....
It would be helpful if the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics would weigh in on all this. It isn't as though their hands aren't full with a global pandemic continuing.
By Jerry DiColo
A Louisiana judge (click here) will be weighing a challenge to the state's "trigger law" abortion ban in Orleans Parish Civil District Court Friday morning.
A ruling from a different judge last month temporarily allowed abortions in Louisiana to proceed while the lawsuit, which alleges the trigger laws are too confusing to enforce, is debated.
Here's what you need to know ahead of Friday's hearing:
What's happening?
Last month, Judge Robin Giarrusso, a Democrat first elected to the bench in 1988, agreed to a temporary injunction that stopped Louisiana's trigger law from taking effect soon after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and said there was no constitutional right to abortion....
There is no way of delivering a baby from a ten year old girl either physically or emotionally. This is Russia by the way. This is the reality of girls in Russia. Every country Secretary Clinton went there was an effort to empower women and girls. I doubt it occurred to her it would be necessary in her own country.
I don't see these girls continuing in elementary school. They won't be able to survive the playground.
April 9, 2022
By Sephanie Pappas
A 10-year-old girl in Colombia (click here) recently gave birth via caesarian section, placing her among the youngest mothers in the world. Though the girl is now recovering, her case highlights the dangers of pregnancy before maturity, doctors say.
"No 10-year-old anywhere in the world should be having a baby," Lewis Wall, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, told LiveScience.
According to Good Morning America, the 10-year-old girl, a member of the Wayuu tribe in Manaure, Colombia, delivered a 5-pound (2.26 kilogram) baby girl. The age of the father is not known, but Colombian police reportedly cannot press charges as the tribe is under its own jurisdiction....
