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Anti-abortion protester attempts to talk to a clinic escort.

VA Abortion Policy Faces Legal and Congressional Challenges

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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VA healthcare worker sues agency over policy to provide abortions and abortion counseling

VA healthcare worker sues agency over policy to provide abortions and abortion counseling

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 …

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Lawyers eye abortion pill legal challenge warily

Lawyers eye abortion pill legal challenge warily

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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