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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Justices Rule Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Challenge FDA’s Promotion of Dangerous Abortion Drug
The Supreme Court, in its decision on Thursday in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, ordered the lower court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone because the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the unanimous opinion. The ruling neither…Thomas Jipping -
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Ex-NFL Star Ben Watson Offers Antidote to Abortion
If the number of marriages increased in America, the number of abortions would likely decrease, statistics show. The Pew Research Center reported that in 2021, 87% of women who had abortions were unmarried, meaning that “marriage can make a huge difference if 87% of abortion-determined women are not married,” says pro-life advocate Ben Watson, a…Virginia Allen -
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Supreme Court Rules Abortion Pill Case Does Not Have Standing. What Happens Now?
The Supreme Court issued a ruling Wednesday that was disappointing news to many in the pro-life movement. The high court ruled unanimously that pro-life doctors do not have legal grounds to challenge the Food and Drug Administration for removing safety restrictions on abortion drugs. Sarah Parshall Perry, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow, joined “The Daily Signal…Virginia Allen -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Delivers Procedural Ruling on Abortion Drugs
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that pro-life doctors do not have standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s removal of safety restrictions on abortion drugs. The court issued a unanimous ruling in two combined cases that deal with the FDA’s regulation of abortion drugs, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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The Left’s Dark Money Network Boosted Abortion Into Ohio’s Constitution. Now It’s Taking a Big Hit.
Last year, a radical abortion ballot initiative passed in the solid red state of Ohio, shocking pro-lifers across the country. The results weren’t even close: 56.78% of Ohio voters backed a ballot initiative to write “reproductive rights” into the state constitution, while only 43.22% opposed it. How did it happen? The Left’s dark money network…Tyler O’Neil -
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Health Insurance Plan Can’t Exclude Gender-Transition Surgeries, Court Rules
A federal court is declaring that employers must cover gender-transition surgeries for their employees in their health insurance plans. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled last week that a refusal by an employer to cover gender-transition surgeries in an employee’s health insurance violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of…S.A. McCarthy -
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US’ Permissive Abortion Laws Highlight Need for Federal Protections, Study Finds
A recent study is declaring U.S. abortion law to be “far more permissive than the vast majority of the world.” In its 2024 report on “Gestational Limits on Abortion in the United States Compared to International Norms,” published last week, the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the U.S. is one of only eight countries in the…S.A. McCarthy -
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Letitia James Sues Pregnancy Centers Over Abortion Pill Reversal Claims
New York State Attorney General Letitia James sued multiple crisis pregnancy centers Monday for saying they can reverse abortion pills. James, a Democrat, targeted 11 crisis pregnancy centers in New York, accusing them of “misleading” pregnant women about whether medication abortion may be reversed, according to the court filing. James claimed that the centers, along with…Harold Hutchison -
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Grassley Slams VA for Mishandling Hundreds of Millions That Could Go to Veterans’ Health
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs on why the agency lost out on as much as $805 million that could have been used to serve veterans. The department’s “bureaucratic right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing, and our veterans have paid the price,” Grassley asserted in an…Fred Lucas -
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Seniors Support Medicare Options as Proposed by House Republicans
Medicare, the huge government health program that serves 66 million senior and disabled citizens, is at a crossroads. With huge demographic and fiscal challenges straight ahead, there are two dominant approaches at hand. One focuses on improving and modernizing the program by building on the best features of Medicare’s popular system of competing private health…Robert Moffit -
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Mental Health Crisis Includes Counselors’ Lack of Faith in God
“There is an important body of conservative thought that is now nearly or completely absent on the faculties of many eminent universities,” former Harvard University President Derek Bok wrote in Harvard Magazine following Hamas’ terrorist attacks Oct. 7 in Israel and the ensuing campus chaos. He recommends “some immediate progress by trying to hire conservatives as visiting professors or…Carrie Sheffield -
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Newly Appointed 4th Circuit Judge Married to Pro-Abortion Christine Ford Lawyer
Recently appointed 4th Circuit Judge Nicole Berner is legally married to the pro-abortion lawyer who represented Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. The Washington Post describes Berner as “the first openly gay judge and the first labor lawyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Arizona Freedom Caucus Leader Slams Republicans ‘Calculated Political Decision-Making’ Following Abortion Ruling
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The head of the Arizona Freedom Caucus condemned the “calculated political decision-making” exhibited by Arizona Republicans who sought to distance themselves from the state’s most massive pro-life victory yet. Some high-profile Arizona Republicans had decried news on Tuesday that the state’s Supreme Court had upheld an 1864 law protecting almost…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Trans Juggernaut Hits a Speedbump: Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses, Instead
It’s been a red-letter week for destroying the gender narrative. And the trans juggernaut just hit another speed bump. Fresh off the heels of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announcing that it would not allow transgender-identified men to compete in women’s athletic events in any of its association’s 239 small private schools, a landmark…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Must Defend Catholic Churches From More Expected Pro-Abortion Attacks, Leader Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A prominent Catholic organization is calling on the Department of Justice to defend Catholic churches from anticipated pro-abortion attacks, pointing to the disparities in the DOJ’s enforcement of a law protecting both abortion clinics and churches. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, CatholicVote President Brian Burch calls on…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling Shifts Singles’ Attitudes Toward Sex, Dating
An unintended but interesting consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade has been a significant decrease in America’s “hookup” culture. In the first year after the high court’s overturning of easy abortion access, 78% of surveyed singles indicated that the lack of federal abortion protections affected their sex and dating lives,…Arthur Goldberg -
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Pregnancy Center Slams FBI For Failure to Arrest Pro-Abortion Firebombers
Staffers at a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Rochester, New York, are criticizing the FBI for failing to provide any kind of status update of investigations into pro-abortion vandals’ attacks on the pregnancy center. Nearly two years after the initial June 2022 attack, CompassCare pregnancy medical center says that the FBI has put up billboards…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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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…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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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…Sarah Holliday -
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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…Thomas Jipping