Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding—and disclosing the cause to a doctor. “Bleeding doesn’t mean you need to go in,” Luna responded on the encrypted messaging app Signal. “Some people bleed on and off for a month." It was a typically busy afternoon for Luna, a doula and reproductive care activist in a state with some of the strictest...
‘Shield laws’ allowed medical providers to ship pills to over 40,000 people in states that forbid abortions in last five months of 2023Over the last five months of 2023, medical providers shipped abortion pills to over 40,000 people living in states that forbid abortions, via new “shield laws” that protect providers who mail pills to people living under abortion restrictions.Researchers from #WeCount, a project by the Society of Family Planning that studies the impact of abortion restrictions...
A team of researchers have built a vision implant with tiny electrodes the size of a neuron, seeking to help blind people see again. The development of vision implants first emerged in the 1990s. The technology targets patients suffering from damage to the eye, but whose visual cortex— the brain's visual centre — is active and able to receive signals. But despite the solution's potential, existing methods are limited by the large size of electrodes and metal corrosion. The research team...
The Covelli Centre in Youngstown will house 135 vendors for the city’s Hope Conference in a few weeks.
A lawsuit against Alabama’s attorney general over his threat to prosecute organizations that help people cross state lines for an abortion can proceed, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson found that the groups that brought the complaint had sufficiently alleged that Attorney General Steve Marshall’s threats, if carried out, would violate the right to travel and free speech. Thompson’s preliminary ruling, issued Monday, denied Marshall’s request for dismissal. Last July, the...
The TOWIE star, 43, took to her Instagram on Thursday to share a video of her and her fiancé Rami Hawash working with landscape company to renovate her garden.
Last year Senior Airman Travis Spong, 35th Force Support Squadron (FSS) registered mail clerk, performed life saving during his deployment to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar on April 30, 2023. Spong’s actions earned him the 2024 United Service Organization Service Member of the Year Award and the Air and the Air and Space Commendation Medal.
A small Texas town unanimously voted against a proposed ordinance to declare itself a Sanctuary City for the Unborn on Thursday.Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, leaving individual states to choose their own legal status on abortion, Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion bans in the United States. Texas' ban, which does not have exceptions for rape, incest or medical needs, goes into effect as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.However, since the...
By Deborah Castellano Lubov. Pope Francis on Wednesday made an appeal for the international community to provide necessary aid and support to the most vulnerable in Afghanistan where at least 300 people have been killed in flooding in 18 districts across at least three of the country's northern provinces in the past few days. Following the Pope's words, Fr. Giovanni Scalese, the last superior of the Mission sui iuris in Afghanistan, who was the only Catholic priest present in the country,...
How People Get Around In America, Europe, And Asia This chart, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, highlights the popularity of different transportation types in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, calculated by modal share. Data for this article and visualization is sourced from ‘The ABC of Mobility’, a research paper by Rafael Prieto-Curiel (Complexity Science Hub) and Juan P. Ospina (EAFIT University), accessed through ScienceDirect. The authors gathered their modal share data...
TikTok explicitly bans content that contains medical misinformation about vaccines or abortion and misinformation about voting, as well as a general prohibition on content that undermines public trust. But TikTok's community guidelines don't ban more esoteric B.S. about reality shifting, manifesting, and a whole lot of esoteric beliefs. Which is as it should be.
After last night's heavy rain and strong winds did damage across Acadiana, one Lafayette family is thankful to be safe after a large tree crushed their house just minutes after the storms began.