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U.K. Study Proves No-Test Telemedicine Abortion Is as Safe and Effective as In-Person Care

U.K. Study Proves No-Test Telemedicine Abortion Is as Safe and Effective as In-Person Care

Carrie N. Baker

In a new study, researchers found that no-test telemedicine abortion model is just as safe and effective as the traditional in-person medication abortion model. Patients actually preferred this option to the in-person model.

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"Public Charge and Private Dilemmas": The Cost of Health Care for Immigrant Families

“Public Charge and Private Dilemmas”: The Cost of Health Care for Immigrant Families

Dr. Cheasty Anderson

In 2019, the Trump administration enacted sweeping changes to the public charge regulations in order to make it harder for a low-income applicant to get their green card. Families, terrified of being deported and having their family torn apart by Trump’s “arcane” public charge rule, left social programs—like SNAP and Medicaid—in droves.

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Texans vs. the Hyde Amendment: the Fight for Affordable Abortion

Texans vs. the Hyde Amendment: the Fight for Affordable Abortion

Bhavik Kumar

This month marks 44 years of the Hyde Amendment, which bans insurance coverage for abortion care for people enrolled in Medicaid. We are united to address the systemic inequities and structural racism in our health care system that deny dignity, agency, and autonomy to Texans of color and those who are struggling to make ends meet.

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Trump’s Medicaid Overhaul Will Hurt Black Women

Marcela Howell

Today, the Trump administration announced an overhaul of the Medicaid program that could deny or limit benefits and may result in reducing enrollment in the program, particularly in states hostile to the Affordable Care Act that want to limit expenses.

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Tennessee Lawmakers Want to Deny Critical Reproductive Health Care to the State’s Poorest Women

Brock Colyar

Politicians in Tennessee are trying to cut off sexual and reproductive health access to the over 500,000 women covered by TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program.

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The Future of Disability Rights Activism is Female

Fareen Ali

Young women are bringing a feminist lens to the fight for disability rights that is critical in the current political climate. 

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Illinois Just Expanded Government-Funded Abortion Access

Lisa Bauer

His decision marks the first time in over two decades that a state has voluntarily provided Medicaid-funded abortion care for low-income and disabled women.

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Feminist Leaders Come Together to #StopTrumpcare

Danielle Balderas

Leaders from Feminist Majority, National Women’s Law Center, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, National Organization for Women and the Women’s March on Washington came together today to discuss the dangers posed to women by Trumpcare—and to devise a plan to stop it.

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A Cruel Attack on Women and the Poor: Six Low-Lights From Trump’s Budget

Gaylynn Burroughs

The Trump Administration today released its FY 2018 budget, calling it “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” Early analysis of the budget, however, shows that it’s anything but.

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Not Going Back: The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid

Jonathan Eig

Though Trump has backtracked slightly on the issue since the election, we still expect an all-out effort by Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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