Head Start centers told to avoid ‘disability,’ ‘women’ and more in funding requests
Source: NPR Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That’s according to recently submitted court documents. The list of words includes “accessible,” “belong,” “Black,” “disability,” “female,” “minority,” “trauma,” “tribal” and […]
Calling All Volunteers: Sign Up to Help KWH Law Center Host Its 2nd Annual Domestic Violence Summit
This October, KWH Law Center and the Albuquerque Community Foundation continue their fight against domestic violence with the 2nd Annual Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Summit.
A mom says an ‘everything bagel’ caused her to fail a drug test. The hospital reported her to child protective services anyway.
Source: CBS News A new mother from Alabama is warning pregnant patients after she says eating an “everything bagel” for breakfast before giving birth to her second child upended her family last spring. It all stemmed from the unexpected results of one urine drug test — a routine test given to thousands of maternity patients […]
Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill accessibility
Source: NPR The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge to the FDA’s rules for prescribing and dispensing abortion pills. By a unanimous vote, the court said the anti-abortion doctors who brought the challenge had failed to show they had been harmed, as they do not prescribe the medication, and thus, essentially, had no […]
Florida’s abortion amendment has enough signatures to make the ballot
Source: MSNBC The proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution must get past the Florida Supreme Court, which will soon hear oral arguments in a challenge from the state’s attorney general. Abortion rights activists in Florida have collected enough signatures for a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, potentially setting […]
FDA approves first postpartum depression pill in the US
Source: CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the medication zuranolone for the treatment of postpartum depression – making it the first FDA-approved oral pill in the United States specifically for postpartum depression, a serious mental illness that can develop in about 1 in 7 new mothers after childbirth. On Friday, the FDA announced that the treatment, […]