{"id":1144,"date":"2023-04-20T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:59:43","slug":"will-they-or-wont-they-block-the-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"Will They or Won\u2019t They (Block the Abortion Pill)?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court justices could act at any moment on access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Beyond reproductive health, their ruling could carry significant implications for states\u2019 rights and FDA independence and integrity. For now, though, observers are unsure what the court will do \u2014 or what exactly prompted justices to again delay their decision this week.<\/p>\n

At the Capitol, lawmakers grumbled, scoffed, and bickered this week as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy revealed the Republican proposal to cut government spending. The package would be dead-on-arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate. But of note is the pushback from within McCarthy\u2019s own caucus, with some hard-right conservatives pressing to go further by demanding the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n

And President Joe Biden pursued new efforts to grant legal status to young immigrants living in the country illegally who were brought here as children, sometimes called \u201cDreamers,\u201d as his administration announced a plan to grant them access to government-funded health coverage.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s panelists are Mary Agnes Carey of KFF Health News, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico.<\/p>\n

Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n