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Misinformation about birth control is rampant on social media, alarming doctors

| December 17, 2024

Doctors are concerned that misinformation about birth control might make some women get off it at a time when there are fewer options available for unintended pregnancies in the US.

Texas bill would reclassify abortion drugs as controlled substances

by The Texas Tribune

| November 26, 2024

A Louisiana law that reclassified abortion-inducing drugs as controlled substances has made it more difficult for doctors to treat a wide range of gynecological conditions, doctors say. Now, a similar proposal has been filed in Texas. Texas Rep. Pat Curry, a freshman Republican from Waco, said the intent of House Bill 1339 is to make […]

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it’s a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

by ProPublica

| October 30, 2024

Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped. Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d […]