Challenges rise to the Department of Veterans Affairs recently enacted abortion policy intended to provide access to abortion services at VA facilities, with both a lawsuit and a bill in Congress against the policy now filed. On Tuesday, Republican members of the House and Senate introduced a resolution that would reverse the policy. The resolution …
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Stephanie Carter, a nurse practitioner at the Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center in Temple, Texas, filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a new rule providing for abortions and counseling for abortion at VA medical facilities. (Department of Veterans Affairs) AUSTIN, Texas — A nurse practitioner working at …
Reproductive rights advocates are on edge over a lawsuit seeking to revoke the decades-old Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of mifepristone, which, if successful, would end the drug. legal access to abortion pills nationwide. Lawyers and legal experts say the lawsuit has no merit, but they fear conservative courts may think otherwise. Abortion pills …
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