on this week's #WTHealth podcast: Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Roubein, Joanne Kenen and I talk abortion, cyberhacking, and election 2024. Plus Shefali Luthra on her new post-Roe abortion book out this week!
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BREAKING: A new Louisiana law designating abortion pills as a controlled substance is heading to the governor's desk. Abortion is already illegal in almost all circumstances in the state, but the law is expected to have a chilling effect on patients ordering pills online.

NEW: In 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS overturns ruling that new SC Congressional map was a racial gerrymander. Bitter written exchange between liberals & conservatives. Very brusque Alito bench announcement for majority as he weathers 2 flag flaps. w/Zach Montellaro politico.com/news/2024/05/2…

Angela Stanton King, an adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was once a pro-Trump House candidate in Atlanta, has left the campaign, citing an “increasingly hateful and divisive atmosphere” that “no longer aligns with my values.” w/Rebecca Davis O'Brien
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Panic! In the Tea Room

'The phrase 'appeal to heaven' comes from the 17th-century philosopher John Locke, who wrote of a responsibility to rebel, even use violence, to overthrow unjust rule.'

Kansas abortion providers are challenging a new state law that requires them to ask patients their reasons for seeking an abortion.

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Lawyers found classified docs in Trump’s bedroom 4 months after Mar-a-Lago search ow.ly/K02T105tUSW

Women with sickle cell disease say OB-GYNs have pushed them to get sterilized when they aren’t sure that’s what they want, and are still considering having more kids. / by ⁦STAT⁩ statnews.com/2024/05/21/sic…

Vote to make the possession of abortion pills without a prescription a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison has been pushed to tomorrow, instead of today -->

Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose is again raising the alarm about noncitizens on the state voter rolls. A Capital Journal investigation last year found a single legitimate case of noncitizen voter fraud among 521 cases of alleged fraud by LaRose's office.

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“Put simply: Biden raised more money, spent less of it on fundraising and none on legal costs, saved more, and has more waiting to hit his campaign bank account than Trump did.”

Jessica Piper pieces together the sprawling presidential money machines:
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NEW: Medical debt is a pervasive issue in the U.S., including for moms.

New mothers are twice as likely to have medical debt as other young women who haven't recently given birth.

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KFF Peterson Center on Healthcare

NEW - How Missouri Senate Democrats blocked limits on direct democracy: Republican discord and non-stop talking

A look at the longest filibuster in Missouri history & how it forced the initiative petition overhaul back into negotiations

w/ @kacen #moleg
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A good friend was hit by a vehicle while biking at this exact spot. I arrived right as he was being loaded into the ambulance. He had to have surgery. I think about it every time I ride by there. Good infrastructure won't protect us without good enforcement. Do better, DC.

This would not affect passage of the abortion rights measure this fall. Ironically, this Republican effort could make it harder in the future for anti-abortion activists to undo it.

With Pride events scheduled worldwide over the coming weeks, U.S. officials are bracing for a return of mpox, the infectious disease formerly called monkeypox that struck tens of thousands of gay and bisexual men worldwide in 2022.

#MorningBriefing : kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefi…

Welp, that's curtains for Republicans' attempt to make it harder to pass an abortion rights ballot measure this November x.com/jonshorman/sta…

According to NPR, “only about a third of Texas prisoners today have air conditioning where they sleep.”

Records we obtained, reported on by NPR, show Texas prisoners filed more than 4,000 complaints related to heat last year.
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NEW: The South Dakota constitutional amendment to restore abortion access has been certified for the November ballot despite a last-ditch effort to convince people to withdraw signatures **BUT** opponents can still file challenges over the next 30 days. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/16/abo…