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independent.co.uk > life-style > ivf-nhs-england-fertility-treatment-uk-birth-rate-b3020992.html

Amid the panic about the birth rate crisis, access to IVF is being quietly decimated

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1753+ words) In the past year alone, five areas have slashed NHS fertility treatment or cut eligibility criteria. This World IVF Day, Helen Coffey takes a deep dive into a severely unjust area of medicine that sees thousands of people priced out…...

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independent.co.uk > news > world > americas > us-politics > trump-sex-ed-teen-pregnancy-funding-abstinence-only-b3019653.html

Trump team cancels funds for sex ed that doesn’t teach abstinence and marriage

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1076+ words) RFK Jr’s agency is changing the rules for teen pregnancy prevention programs in an ideologically driven effort to gut sex ed, reproductive health groups say Donald Trump’s administration is steering millions of dollars to teen health programs that focus on…...

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independent.co.uk > bulletin > news > medicaid-trump-planned-parenthood-funding-b3010283.html

Medicaid restored for some Planned Parenthood services after Trump cuts

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (140+ words) The Independent Medicaid restored for some Planned Parenthood services after Trump cuts - Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers have reinstated Medicaid billing for non-abortion services, nearly a year after funding was cut. - The defunding, mandated by President Donald…...

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independent.co.uk > news > world > americas > us-politics > trump-planned-parenthood-cuts-medicaid-funding-b3010226.html

Medicaid restored after Trump’s Planned Parenthood cuts closed clinics

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (613+ words) Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers have reinstated Medicaid billing for non-abortion services, nearly a year after funding was cut. The defunding, mandated by President Donald Trump’s tax and policy law last year, has been linked to the…...

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independent.co.uk > news > world > americas > planned-parenthood-medicaid-donald-trump-patients-arizona-b3010044.html

Medicaid funding is resuming for Planned Parenthood after being cut off for most of a year

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (701+ words) Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year. The defunding, which was mandated in President Donald Trump's big tax and policy law…...

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independent.co.uk > news > world > americas > us-politics > planned-parenthood-federal-funding-congress-b3000601.html

Planned Parenthood could soon regain access to federal funding with ban set to expire

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (792+ words) Healthcare nonprofit blocked from receiving government money last year by one-year provision included in One Big Beautiful Bill, with no extension currently on the cards from Senate Republicans Planned Parenthood is likely to be able to regain access to federal…...

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independent.co.uk > news > uk > home-news > mps-illegal-abortion-pardon-women-convicted-b2957716.html

MPs back pardon for women convicted of having illegal abortions

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (617+ words) It follows a landmark vote in the Commons last year MPs have backed a move to pardon women convicted of having an illegal abortion, as well as those cautioned. The Commons has approved a Lords amendment to the Crime and…...

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independent.co.uk > news > louisiana-donald-trump-fda-california-republican-b2953365.html

Judge refuses to block sending abortion pill by mail for now, but says FDA must finish review

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (610+ words) A federal judge Tuesday refused to block filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone by mail across the U.S. — at least for now — in a setback to Louisiana's effort to stifle groups that send it into states where abortion is banned....

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independent.co.uk > life-style > health-and-families > abortion-pills-restricted-access-women-pregnant-mifepristone-b2944644.html

States with bans are working hard to fight telehealth-prescribed abortion pills

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1002+ words) Multiple states are challenging the federal rules that allow mifepristone to be prescribed via telehealth A new survey revealed that in states with abortion bans, more women last year obtained abortions via telehealth-prescribed pills than by traveling to legal states....

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independent.co.uk > news > pennsylvania-pittsburgh-b2944208.html

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, convicted of killing babies at Philadelphia abortion clinic, dies at 85

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday. Gosnell's grimy West Philadelphia clinic became known as the…...