Anti-Abortion Hard-Liners Speak Up – KFF Health News

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With abortion emerging as a major issue for the November elections, the movement united to overturn roe vs wade There is disagreement over whether to move further and more quickly, including punishing abortion providers and banning contraception or IVF. Politicians who oppose abortion are already facing opposition in some states.

Meanwhile, the bad guys are harming the healthcare system in a variety of new ways, including charging extra commissions by changing people’s insurance plans without their consent, hacking the records of major healthcare systems, and demanding millions of dollars in ransom.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Olstein of POLITICO, Rachel Reuben of The Washington Post, and Joan Cannon of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Nursing and POLITICO Magazine.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico

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Joan Kennan Johns Hopkins University and Politico

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Rachel Reuben The Washington Post

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Highlights from this week’s episode:

• It seems abortion opponents are learning that it’s much easier to agree against something you’re in favor of. Now that the constitutional right to abortion has been struck down, political leaders are clashing with vocal groups that want to take it further – such as banning access to IVF or contraception.
• A Louisiana bill designating abortion pills as controlled substances targets people in a state where abortion is restricted who are looking for ways to obtain the drug. And abortion providers in Kansas are suing against a new law that requires patients to report their reasons for seeking an abortion. Such state laws have a cumulatively negative effect on access to abortion.
• It appears some Republican lawmakers are trying to tap into voter dissatisfaction with abortion restrictions in this election year. Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Alabama Senator Katie Britt introduced legislation to protect IVF by withdrawing Medicaid funding from states that ban the reproductive procedure — but it has loopholes. And Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced that he is in favor of abortion, even though he had avoided the issue during his eight years as governor.
• Former President Donald Trump is in the news again for comments that seem to leave the door open for restrictions on contraception — which may well be the case, though he is known for making such vague policy suggestions. Trump’s policies as president restricted access to contraception, and his allies have proposed going even further.

Also this week, Rovner interviews The 19th’s Shefali Luthra about her new book on abortion—Roe deer US, “undue burden.”

Plus, for “extra credit,” panelists suggest health policy stories they’ve read this week that they think you should read, too:

Julie Rovner: 19th”What will happen to clinics after state bans on abortion? they struggle to surviveBy Shefali Luthra and Chabeli Karrajana.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: State’sHow doctors are pressuring sickle cell patients for unwanted sterilizationBy Eric Boodman.

Rachel Reuben: The Washington Post’sWhat science tells us about Biden, Trump, and the assessment of the aging brain,” by Joel Achenbach and Mark Johnson.

Joan Kenyon: ProPublica’sToxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist That Forever Chemicals Found in Human Blood Were Safeby Sharon Lerner; and The Guardian’s “Study finds microplastics found in every human testicleBy Damien Carrington.

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