Abortion May Prove a Landmine in ACA Subsidy Push
Axios, September 11, 2025
Abortion politics are colliding with ongoing efforts in Congress to extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act coverage. Renewing the premium subsidies even for a year beyond their Dec. 31 expiration was always going to be politically tricky because of the cost. Now there’s the added complication of restricting any funds from being used on abortions. Anti-abortion groups and some GOP lawmakers are pushing to attach the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion in most instances, to any subsidy extension.
Telehealth Abortion Could End up in Front of the Supreme Court With This Latest Move
The 19th, September 8, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Sept. 8 that she will defend her state’s abortion protections in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas. James’ involvement sets up the first interstate fight over abortion laws since the fall of Roe v. Wade, opening the door for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a key legal mechanism that has helped people in states with bans access abortion. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a civil suit against Dr. Margaret Carpenter in December for providing a telehealth abortion to a Texas-based patient. Carpenter lives and practices in New York, where abortion is legal; in Texas, where her patient received the health care, there is an almost total ban on abortion.
California Considers Allowing Doctors To Prescribe Abortion Drugs Anonymously
NPR, September 10, 2025
A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously mail abortion drugs could soon become law, marking the latest effort by a blue state to safeguard access to medication abortion … Under the measure, which the legislature is considering this week, doctors, pharmacists and others authorized to prescribe the drugs to end a pregnancy could leave their name off the prescription label … Now, as legal attacks against telehealth providers put shield laws to the test, some states have moved to strengthen the laws by allowing providers to prescribe anonymously, reducing their risk of legal or individual harassment.
Abortion Bans Can Make Birth Control a Tricky Topic for Medical Providers – Study
Rewire News Group, September 8, 2025
Medical providers are increasingly uncomfortable discussing and prescribing the full range of birth control options with their patients following the Supreme Court’s decision to end federal abortion protections in 2022. A November 2024 study in the journal Reproductive Health found that doctors, nurses, and other reproductive health providers feel particularly conflicted and nervous about inserting intrauterine devices (IUDs) and dispensing emergency contraception like Plan B – two contraceptive methods that anti-abortion advocates frequently misportray as being able to cause an abortion.”
Texas’ Medication Abortion Ban Could Achieve a Top Conservative Goal
The 19th, September 9, 2025
The passage of a major bill in Texas threatens the national safety net that has allowed tens of thousands of Americans to get around abortion bans. House Bill 7 targets health care providers in states like California, New York and Massachusetts who have, since the fall of Roe v. Wade, used telehealth to prescribe abortion pills … HB 7 gives anti-abortion activists a new tool that heightens the risk for medical professionals. It says any private citizen can bring a civil lawsuit, with a minimum payout of $100,000, against anyone who makes medication abortion available to a Texan. That includes prescribing, mailing and distributing pills.
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