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A decision is imminent in three of the four cases that will determine whether individual health information for legal reproductive care remains protected by a 2024 federal rule.
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Will HIPAA protections continue for abortion care? Courts to soon decide.

Jun 09, 2025
AI experts told the House Oversight Committee that AI offers enormous promise for federal workers, but also raises serious privacy and security concerns. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom)
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Congress hears of rewards, security risks of government use of AI

Jun 06, 2025
Federal health officials rescinded guidance Tuesday issued by former President Joe Biden’s administration that said Medicare-funded hospitals must provide life-saving abortion care, regardless of state bans. (Photo by Otto Kitsinger/ Idaho Capital Sun)
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Federal health agency says emergency abortion care guidance doesn’t reflect administration policy

Jun 04, 2025
Amanda Becker, reporter for The 19th, and Colleen Long, editor for NBC News, presented their post-Dobbs books at the 2025 Gaithersburg Book Festival in Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 17. Becker’s “You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America” and Long and Rebecca Little’s “I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America,” were both published in 2024. (Photo by Sofia Resnick/States Newsroom)
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‘How we ended up here’: Authors on effects of abortion bans

May 28, 2025
Members of the group Initiative Urheberrecht (authors' rights initiative) demonstrate to demand regulation of artificial intelligence on June 16, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The AI regulation later adopted by the European Union is a model for many U.S. lawmakers interested in consumer protection but a cautionary tale for others who say they're interested in robust innovation, experts say.(Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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European Union AI regulation is both model and warning for U.S. lawmakers, experts say

May 27, 2025
Barbara Collura, CEO and president of Resolve: The National Infertility Association, spoke outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery on Feb. 28, 2024.
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What top IVF advocates want from the White House fertility care plan

May 23, 2025
A House committee met this week to discuss possible federal AI legislation, and debated a pending measure to preempt states from enacting their own regulations. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom.)
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Congress begins considering first federal AI regulations

May 21, 2025
“We just want to ensure that the most popular method for abortion in Virginia and beyond is protected no matter who sits at the White House and who sits in the FDA,” said Whole Woman’s Health founder and president Amy Hagstrom Miller outside of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
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Abortion providers challenge FDA’s remaining mifepristone restrictions in federal court

May 19, 2025
Members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists meet with a member of Congress during the organization’s Congressional Leadership Conference in March. (Courtesy of ACOG)
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‘It is a fight’: Patients, OB-GYNs and sexual health advocates determined to stop Medicaid cuts

May 19, 2025
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