In Massachusetts, Maine Family Planning is offering telemedicine abortion, operating under a research exception to the FDA restriction.
Abortion activists outside the Supreme Court in 2012. (Blink O’fanaye / Flickr)
This article orginally appeared in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. It is published here with permission.
On Jan. 12, the Supreme Court reinstated a Food and Drug Administration rule requiring patients seeking the abortion pill to make an unnecessary, in-person visit to their health care providers. Despite this decision, access to abortion in Massachusetts is expanding, and not just because of the recently-passed ROE Act.
Just last month, Maine Family Planning started offering telemedicine abortion in Massachusetts, operating under a research exception to the FDA restriction.
The more we look at the Jan. 6 Insurrection at the Capitol, the more we see attackers with military experience.A National Public Radio (NPR) analysis of the 140 arrested to date says one in five was a military veteran who clearly had sworn in the past to protect the Constitution and democracy. By co.
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Libby Solomon is a writer and editor for GGWash. She was previously a reporter for the Baltimore Sun covering the Baltimore suburbs and a writer for Johns Hopkins University’s Centers for Civic Impact. A Baltimore resident, Libby enjoys running and painting in her spare time. Share
DC is reeling after a pro-Trump mob invaded the US Capitol on Wednesday in what many are calling an act of insurrection or sedition resulting in four deaths and more than 50 arrests. After yesterday’s 6 pm curfew, DC remains in a state of “public emergency” through inauguration day.
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In a press conference, Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III (whose first day on the job was five days ago) announced that a woman was shot by Capitol Police and three others died from “medical emergencies” on Capitol grounds. He said 14 MPD officers were injured and two hospitalized. Police recovered pipe bombs at the Democratic and Republican National Committees as well as a cooler of Molotov cocktails on Capitol grounds.