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US border authorities released a statement Thursday disclosing that the eight-year-old girl who died while in their custody last month was denied attention or review from medical staff. Following the death of the young migrant, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched an internal investigation consistent with agency [...]

The Australian Senate’s Community Affairs Committee released a report Friday calling for the Australian Government to improve access to reproductive healthcare following the Senate’s referral of an inquiry into the nation’s contraception and abortion services to the committee on September 28, 2022. The accessibility issues identified arise due to Australia’s national drug scheduling system, administered [...]

It’s an uncommon association, but certain connections have been suggested between sovereignty (the highest form of earthly authority) and offerings of immortality. For the most part, at the level of philosophical investigation, such connections have not always been subtle. Observes G F Hegel (1820) in The Philosophy of Right: “The state is the march of [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that abortion pill mifepristone will continue to be widely accessible as the ongoing appeals process takes place.  Mifepristone, approved in 2000, is used broadly to end pregnancies. The FDA’s approval was challenged by doctors and medical groups claiming the drug regimen was “unsafe.” On April 7, a Texas federal [...]

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon Friday signed a bill which bans abortion pills in Wyoming and allowed a separate measure with further abortion restrictions to be passed without his signature. The abortion pills (misoprostol and mifepristone) are already fully banned in 13 states, and 15 states have restricted access and production of abortion pills. The bill makes [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint Monday against Rite Aid claiming the corporation and its state branches filled prescriptions for controlled substances that were not medically necessary, did not have a valid prescription or were issued by prescribers acting outside their usual areas of practice. The Controlled Substances Act categorizes prescription drugs [...]

The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy voted 8–3 Monday to advance a bill that would largely criminalize and further restrict the provision of sex-reassignment hormones and procedures to minors. Introduced by Florida State Senators Clay Yarborough and Keith Perry, Senate Bill 254 would give Florida courts temporary emergency jurisdiction over any child present in [...]

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Monday reached a deal to resolve their disagreements surrounding the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol. The deal, called the Windsor Framework, will replace the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol, which regulated trade between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the [...]

The Attorney General of Texas Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over federal guidance informing pharmacies that refusing to fill prescriptions for abortion medication breaks federal civil rights law. The complaint argues that the guidance was procedurally invalid and violates federal law, saying “the question of abortion is up to the people’s elected [...]

Mifepristone manufacturer GenBioPro Inc. Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of West Virginia, challenging the state’s restrictions on medication abortions. Mifepristone is a generic medication abortion pill approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be used up to ten weeks of pregnancy. GenBioPro alleges that West Virginia’s Unborn Child Protection Act [...]