As Demand for Medication Abortion Increases, Facebook Allows Ads for Potentially Dangerous “Abortion Reversal” Procedure The ads appear as the company faces criticism for limiting content about medication abortions By: Lauren Kirchner, Maddy Varner, and Angie Waller The Markup has found that Facebook is serving up ads and posts for the so-called “abortion pill reversal”…
Category: Healthcare
Illinois Attorney General releases guidelines to protect online medical privacy
Sharon Wren reports: Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has released guidelines to help individuals seeking reproductive care protect their privacy while using apps and online platforms. He urges people to exercise caution when utilizing web-based apps and websites that might track users’ search and location information, which could be shared with third parties. People should…
Her Ex-Husband Is Suing a Clinic Over the Abortion She Had Four Years Ago
Nicole Santa Cruz reports: Nearly four years after a woman ended an unwanted pregnancy with abortion pills obtained at a Phoenix clinic, she finds herself mired in an ongoing lawsuit over that decision. A judge allowed the woman’s ex-husband to establish an estate for the embryo, which had been aborted in its seventh week of…
HHS Issues Guidance to the Nation’s Retail Pharmacies Clarifying Their Obligations to Ensure Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Services
From HHS OCR: Today, following President Biden’s Executive Order on ensuring access to reproductive health care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing guidance to roughly 60,000 U.S. retail pharmacies, reminding them of their obligations under federal civil rights laws. The guidance makes clear that as recipients of federal financial assistance,…