Florida

Florida abortions down by half since Roe as more women travel for procedure
By Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times
The number of abortions provided in Florida has fallen by roughly half since the state introduced stricter laws after the repeal of Roe vs. Wade in 2022, new data shows.

After practically banning abortion, lawmakers are at it again
By Eleanor Sobel, South Florida Sun Sentinel
It’s legislative session in Tallahassee and, as in most years, lawmakers are rolling out extreme, lobbyist-driven bills designed more to energize their voters than to protect citizens. The consequences land directly on personal freedoms and health care.

Bills cracking down on abortion pills advance in states that already ban most abortions
By Elisha Brown, Florida Phoenix
to restrict access to abortion pills are in full swing, particularly in states that already ban abortion.

Privacy and parenting collide, Florida debates teen mental health care
By Jennifer M. Torres, Florida Today
For teenagers, mental health care often lies in a gray space between privacy and protection.

Medicaid work requirements in the works in Florida?
Por Christine Sexton, Florida Phoenix
Extracto: The House bill would amend Florida’s Medicaid statutes to prevent payment to any “prohibited entity” in federal law, such as abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, for one year. The Senate bill doesn’t contain that language.

Uthmeier calls for GOP lawmaker’s ouster from House leadership position
By Liv Caputo, Florida Phoenix
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday escalated a long-simmering feud with a Republican lawmaker by calling for his ouster from a House leadership role, citing the legislator’s ties to a law firm defending Planned Parenthood in a lawsuit brought by the state.

Demand grows for doulas who can help moms with addiction
By Nada Hassanein, Florida Phoenix
“Don’t give me narcotics.” Emmalee Hortin, a doula, recalled one of her clients delivering that message to hospital staff.

Lawmakers should reject judgmental, heartless attacks on freedom, health
Editorial, Orlando Sentinel
This year, more than usual, a group of Florida lawmakers are clinging to a Biblical-sounding principle — and doing their best to ensure that the wages of sin are, at the very least, misery.

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Las autoridades federales y estatales están adoptando un enfoque doble para dificultar el acceso al aborto.
By Naomi Cahn, Professor of Law, University of Virginia and Sonia Suter, Professor of Law, George Washington University, The Conversation
Los conservadores antiaborto han buscado durante mucho tiempo obligar a las clínicas de Planned Parenthood a cerrar sus puertas y hacer más difícil, si no imposible, obtener píldoras abortivas como parte de un enfoque doble para limitar el acceso al aborto.

‘We’re going to disrupt this country’: Pardoned anti-abortion activists plot mass clinic protests
By Julianne McShane, MS Now
Joan Andrews Bell knelt on the pavement in the middle of Washington Avenue Southwest before a handful of irritated officers on Jan. 22, hunched over a rosary she clutched in her hands.

Planned Parenthood ends suit against Trump administration over serving Medicaid patients
By Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix
A federal judge on Monday closed the lawsuit Planned Parenthood filed last summer after Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law blocked Medicaid patients from visiting its clinics for any health care appointments for one year.

Galveston man sues California doctor under new Texas law allowing lawsuits over abortion pills
By Zahiyah Carter, States Newsroom
A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000.

Congressional Democrats Urge Trump to Cover IVF for Federal Workers
By Oriana González, NOTUS
Two congressional Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to require that in vitro fertilization be covered for federal workers.

If you’re pregnant and uninsured, Medicaid might be your answer
By Blake Farmer, Cara Anthony and Emily Siner, Nashville Public Radio
When she noticed an unusual craving for hot dogs, Matte’a Brooks suspected her body was telling her something, so she decided to take a pregnancy test. She took two just to be sure. Both were positive.

Nueva investigación

Moving Toward a Population Level Measure of Person-Centered Contraceptive Need in the United States
By Jennifer J. Frost, Megan L. Kavanaugh, Ayana Douglas-Hall and Anu Manchikanti Gómez, Journal of Women’s Health
We used multiple national datasets to develop a more person-centered metric for estimating need for contraception, comparing results made using a conventional approach with this new approach.