Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Pro-Abortion Ballot Initiative in Florida Aims to Trick Voters With Vague Definition of ‘Health’
A ballot initiative OK’d by the Florida Supreme Court perpetuates abortion advocates’ favored strategy of using vague definitions of “health” to expand abortion on demand. Florida voters will face a referendum measure in November that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth if deemed “necessary to protect the patient’s health” after the state… -
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Debunking the Supposed ‘Historical’ Christian View That Abortion Is OK
I’m not going to take “theological advice” from a pro-abortion Christian, and neither should you. Bradley Onishi, who describes himself as a former evangelical minister, wrote an opinion piece for Politico titled, “Why Christians—and Republicans—Should Reconsider the Premise that ‘Life Begins at Conception.’” In the article, the writer argues that protecting the unborn is “not settled Christian… -
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Safety of Women Hangs in Balance After Oral Arguments on Abortion Pill Regulation
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two combined cases regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of abortion drugs. In Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, the court below—the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—had concluded that the FDA’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop the safety rules… -
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Abortion Drug’s Adverse Event Reporting Should Be Cause for Concern at the FDA
Abortion is a very controversial topic, but drug safety isn’t. Keeping America’s drug supply safe is a nonpartisan endeavor. Whatever one’s political leanings, everybody wants safe, effective drugs, and a full disclosure of known safety risks. Because of that, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to remain agnostic when it comes to politics, up… -
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Videos Show Planned Parenthood Circumventing Abortion Law by Dismembering Babies, Pro-Life Journalist Alleges
Planned Parenthood officials appear to discuss mutilating the bodies of living babies to bypass federal law against partial-birth abortions in previously unseen undercover videos obtained by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress. Center founder and self-described journalist David Daleiden told The Daily Signal that the footage, revealed Tuesday at a House hearing, adds to Planned… -
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Rubio to GOP: Don’t ‘Shy Away’ From Exposing Democratic Abortion Extremism
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio responded to GOP consultant Kellyanne Conway’s abortion advice by urging lawmakers to expose Democratic extremism. Last week, Conway urged Republicans to stop highlighting that their Democratic opponents support unfettered abortions of unborn babies, though Democratic Party leaders and most Democratic politicians have repeatedly refused to specify any protections for… -
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Kellyanne Conway Tells GOP: Stop Saying Democrats Support Abortion Up Until Birth
GOP campaign consultant Kellyanne Conway urged Republicans to stop highlighting that their Democratic opponents support unfettered abortions of unborn babies, suggesting instead that Republicans focus on consensus. Conway laid out an abortion-related political strategy Wednesday during Politico’s Health Care Summit, at which she also touched on her support for both TikTok and in vitro fertilization…. -
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‘I SURVIVED’: Late-Term Abortion Survivor Busts Left’s Abortion Myths
A survivor of a late-term abortion, Melissa Ohden, shared her story in an interview with The Daily Signal. “I survived a failed saline-infusion abortion,” Ohden told senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan on Thursday, “about four years after [1973’s] Roe v. Wade.” “The intent of that toxic salt solution was to poison and scald me to death,” she… -
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Pro-Life Groups Urge University of Houston to Remove Pro-Abortion Statue
The University of Houston is facing backlash from pro-life organizations over a pro-abortion statue on campus grounds. The university canceled the exhibit’s official presentation ceremony, but the pro-life groups also called for the school to remove the statue outright. The monument, a golden woman with two thick braids resembling ram’s horns, stands about 18 feet… -
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Investigation Reveals Gender, Abortion Services Masquerading as Health Centers in K-12 Schools
A trend of installing “health centers” in K-12 public schools has led to students being offered disturbing services without parental knowledge or consent, an investigation by a leading parental rights group has found. Progressive education activists claim that so-called school-based health centers and other “wrap-around services” improve academic performance and behavior by giving students daily… -
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Pauvre Enfant: An American (Abortion) in Paris
The French woke up and chose violence. On Monday, France became the world’s only country to explicitly enshrine a right to abortion into its constitution. The French Parliament overwhelmingly approved it, 780-to-72—a greater than 10-to-1 spread. Fittingly, they held their vote in the Palace of Versailles, one of the epicenters of French Revolution violence. The… -
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Biden’s Big Abortion Lie in His State of the Union Address
My mom taught me that saying something you know is not true is a lie. President Joe Biden told some whoppers Thursday night in his State of the Union speech, including several about abortion. Biden, for example, vowed to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land.” No president, of course, can establish… -
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Pro-Life Tragedy: France Embeds Abortion in Constitution, Other Nations Will Follow
In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, the French parliament has just enshrined a “right” to abortion in the nation’s constitution. It is the first country in the world to do so. Why? Was there a push to outlaw abortion, which has been legal in France since the 1970s? Was there an effort to lower France’s gestational… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Florida Health Agency Responds to WPATH Files Exposing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Florida agency that crafted a rule to prevent Medicaid from funding experimental transgender medical interventions responded Tuesday to the release of internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Journalist Michael Shellenberger on Monday night released a report, “The WPATH Files,” through his nonprofit, Environmental Progress. In the… -
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Nebraska Abortion Bill Targets Unborn Babies With Genetic Handicaps
Unborn babies with disabilities would be discriminated against by legislation proposed in Nebraska, opponents say. The bill, LB 1109, targets unborn babies with certain handicaps by allowing abortion for up to 22 weeks of gestation. If the bill were passed and signed into law, babies diagnosed with often-fatal fetal anomalies, such as Trisomy 13 or 18, would… -
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The Left’s Relentless War Against Medicare’s Private Health Plans
For the second year in a row, the Biden administration plans to reduce payments to Medicare’s private health plans. This comes as Medicare Advantage—the system of private, competing health plans—enrolls more than 33 million people, well over half of the entire Medicare population. Private health plans now dominate Medicare coverage. The Left is relentlessly… -
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Nation’s Largest Pharmacy Chains to Begin Selling Abortion Pills
Two major pharmacy chains are preparing to place abortion pills on their shelves in select states, according to The New York Times. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced in January 2023 that pharmacies would be able to start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone to patients. Officials from Walgreens and CVS drug stores said Friday that they… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Order YouTube to Remove ‘Misleading’ Notice on Abortion Video
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of 16 state attorneys general is calling out YouTube for “misleading” informational posts on abortion videos, warning that the platform is putting women in danger by minimizing the risks of chemical abortions. “Your bias against pro-life and pro-woman messages is un-American; inconsistent with the liberties protected by the First… -
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Montana Judge Strikes Down 3 Laws Limiting Abortion
Three laws in Montana limiting abortion are unconstitutional, a state judge ruled Thursday, according to the Daily Montanan. The laws ban abortion after 20 weeks and by way of telehealth services, as well as require a 24-hour waiting period and two ultrasounds. District Court Judge Kurt Krueger sided with Planned Parenthood of Montana, which filed the lawsuit and… -
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Why New Federal Health Care Benefit Mandates Must Be Avoided
In the wake of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling related to in vitro fertilization clinics/practices, policymakers are likely to respond by overreacting and making hasty policy decisions. Suggesting a new federal benefit mandate is one of those ill-advised ideas. A federal benefit mandate for IVF would not only raise the cost of health care…