"A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding funding from Planned Parenthood as mandated in the tax and domestic policy bill President Trump signed in July."

Government Can Withhold Funds From Planned Parenthood, Appeals Court Rules

A three-judge panel threw out a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to continue defunding the group and other major abortion p...

#healthcare #medicaid #PlannedParenthood #ReproHealth #abortion #FamilyPlanning #contraception #courts #USpol

"Ernaux says it is important for young people to know the dangers of illegal abortion, because politicians sometimes seek to restrict access to legal abortion. She points to recent events in some US states and Poland. 'It is a fundamental freedom to be in control of your body and therefore of reproduction,' she says."

A backstreet abortion nearly killed Annie Ernaux. It became a story that shaped her life

Writer Annie Ernaux - whose work fearlessly examines her own life - went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #SexualAssault #WomensHealth #author #books #literature

"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad. 'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"

Why more young US women seem to be ready to move abroad

A Gallup poll suggests 40% of US women aged 15 to 44 would move abroad if they could. Women who took the plunge tell us why.

#healthcare #PaidLeave #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #WomensHealth #USpol

"Alice Wong was a major force in disability activism. She passed away last month at the age of 51. For Here and Now, reporter Elissa Nadworny speaks with Yomi Young about Wong’s impact as a fellow activist, and what she leaves behind as a friend." https://www.npr.org/2025/12/06/nx-s1-5620744/remembering-disability-activist-alice-wong #aapi #aanhpi #disabilities #advocacy #activism #podcast #AliceWong #RIP

"Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73."

AP News

Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies

Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for ...

#aapi #aanhpi #documentary #HateCrimes #SocialJustice #CivilRights #RIP

"The symptoms are so varied because your ovaries are ramping down production of estrogen and progesterone, sex hormones that have played key roles in all kinds of physiological processes since puberty. Estrogen is the biggest factor: As it declines, tissues in many parts of your body get drier, your bone density decreases and your body changes in lots of other ways." 🎁🔗:

What Menopause Does to the Body

A head-to-toe guide to the many unexpected symptoms of the midlife transition.

#PublicHealth #menopause #perimenopause #WomensHealth

“Leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in place erodes the most elemental principles of free speech and allows state and local governments to exert ideological control over the people with impunity,” said Elly Brinkley, staff attorney for the group’s U.S. Free Expression Programs. “The government has no place telling people what they can and cannot read.”

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court clears way for Llano County library book removals

Seven residents launched a challenge in 2022 to the removal of 17 books, which included topics on race and gender. They won a reinstatement of the ...

#books #BookBans #libraries #FreeSpeech #texas #courts #SCOTUS #Bookstodon

“'We estimate that over a seven-year follow-up period, the shingles vaccine averts one in five new dementia diagnoses,' says Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer, an assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and senior author of the study. The findings were replicated in a similar study in JAMA this year, looking at seniors in Australia when the government rolled out a similar shingles-vaccine program." 🎁🔗: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/the-unexpected-ways-vaccines-could-boost-your-health-00eb3158?st=NYXDc3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink #research #science #vaccines #immunizations #dementia #cancer