On top of canceling the trans health study, losses include millions of dollars the NIH has already spent and the next generation of scientists whose work has been cut short.
The change in recommendation could force pregnant people to make an impossible choice—pay out of pocket for a vaccine, or risk the rare but harrowing health consequences of a severe COVID infection.
Thailand treated my miscarriage like a medical emergency. In the U.S., my home country, pregnant people who miscarry can be arrested, caught up in the abortion dragnet.
While we wait for a decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of the biggest book-banning cases of the year, Imani and Jess talk with one of the banned books’ authors and set the record straight on what’s really motivating LGBTQ+ book bans.
The 19th is tracking the emerging trends, firsts, and surprises this year as statehouse Republicans brought a record-breaking number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills.