TOPEKA (KSNT) - Lawmakers are days away from deciding the fate of a bill banning gender-affirming care ban for Kansas minors. Governor Kelly vetoed the bill April 12. Opponents of the bill are making a last-ditch effort to prevent an override. They held a meeting in Salina earlier today, where medical and mental health care []
Court heard arguments over Idaho case on abortions in medical emergencies. Biden administration believes Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act trumps state abortion laws in some cases. It's the first case over a state abortion ban to go before the court since Roe fell. Pro and anti-abortion rights protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court
Republican legislators moved Monday to enact a ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors and bar state employees from advocating social transitioning for transgender youth, brushing aside criticism that they were hurting the state's image.
Noting the urgency of the situation on Monday, the court said that the 14-year-old victim’s welfare was of paramount importance.
The court issued new directions after the 14-year-old survivor’s parents said that terminating her pregnancy could cause health complications.
The vote was 82-43 in the state House to reverse Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, but that was
Republican legislators in Kansas have failed to override the Democratic governor’s veto of a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Federal court: States can’t exclude gender-affirming care The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that North Carolina and West Virginia could not exclude gender-affirming care from state-funded health plans. © AP The panel of judges voted
BOISE, Idaho — It was the news that every expectant mother dreads. Twelve weeks pregnant with her second child, Jennifer Adkins learned her developing fetus had Turner syndrome, a rare chromosomal abnormality, and was unlikely to survive. On top of that, doctors warned that her own health could be in jeopardy. Adkins was at high risk of what’s known as Mirror Syndrome — a condition in which the pregnant mother develops symptoms that mimic those of her deteriorating fetus, including swelling,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices, wading back into the battle over abortion access, appeared divided on Wednesday in a case pitting Idaho's strict Republican-backed abortion ban against a federal law that ensures that patients can receive emergency care. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Idaho officials of a lower court's ruling that found that the 1986 U.S. law at issue, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), supersedes the state's near-total ban in...
A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the near
A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning