"We will be funding the original grantees for the next year under the previous criteria [set by the Obama administration]," a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told the Hill.
Governors from Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii announced they would reject Title X family planning funding, should the proposed restrictions on abortion care for grantees become policy.
At the Religious Liberty Summit, Department of Justice attorneys assured attendees they are protecting the religious rights of everyone in the United States, while conservative Christian politicians and advocates voiced a need for stepped-up federal protections beyond those they already enjoy.
If the Supreme Court decides to allow employers to discriminate against transgender people, all federal workplace protections for them could disappear.
After years and thousands of complaints about the implant Essure, Bayer finally takes it off shelves. And the first new endometriosis treatment in a decade brings hope of pain relief.