4+ hour, 58+ min ago  (178+ words) The Boston Globe Republicans were once afraid to touch birth control " not anymore Pronatalists, MAHA influencers, and social conservatives are finding common cause against contraception. The Trump administration is listening. Mary Ziegler, a contributing writer to Globe Ideas, is a…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (475+ words) The Trump administration said Thursday that it has launched investigations into 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion. The probes are the latest in a long-running dispute between the political parties on how to interpret a provision,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (773+ words) In the years since the US Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, Massachusetts has emerged as a major national provider of abortion care, with new state data showing terminations using medication have more than doubled, and most patients receiving…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (334+ words) The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual rights migrants in U. S. custody should have, U. S. military attacks on suspected drug traffickers off Venezuela…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (783+ words) Perhaps no one knows better than Elizabeth Carr, the first American baby born from in vitro fertilization, how fragile and fickle access to reproductive technology can be. She is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, a state widely perceived to have…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago  (553+ words) Allegations that a school social worker scheduled and paid for student abortion care four years ago are "very likely untrue," Virginia's largest school district said in a report that suggests political motivations are behind the claim surfacing in election season....

6+ mon, 6+ day ago  (382+ words) Follow live updates on the Trump administration. The new guidance will allow companies to offer fertility benefits separate from major medical insurance plans, like they do with dental and vision plans, Trump said. Trump said the drug will be available…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (641+ words) Costco will not dispense a key abortion pill at its pharmacies, a long-awaited win for conservatives trying to limit access to medication abortion. For more than a year, Costco deliberated over whether to become certified to dispense mifepristone, the drug…...

9+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (144+ words) A provision in that bill would end Medicaid payments to abortion providers for one year. But U. S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston granted a preliminary injunction Monday that, for now, blocks the government from cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood…...

9+ mon, 6+ day ago  (807+ words) Maine Family Planning filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday seeking to restore the reimbursements. Accessing health care in Maine " one of the Northeast's poorest states and its most rural " is a challenge in areas far from population centers…...