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EVERYTHING
First Lady Jill Biden Keeps Up Push for Women’s Health Research
What: First Lady Jill Biden continued her nationwide tour of research facilities focused on women, heading to Research Triangle Park in North Carolina on Wednesday.
Why it matters: As the First Lady said: “So many of us and so many of the women in our lives suffer from health conditions for which we don’t have answers or solutions. We simply don’t know about how to prevent, detect and treat the conditions that only affect women, affect women more than men, or affect women differently than men.”
Source: WRAL
BIRTH CONTROL
Is a Form Keeping Women from Getting Their Tubes Tied When They Want?
What: An analysis suggests that one simple form could be getting in the way of women who want to get their tubes tied immediately after giving birth. Only half of women who want to get their tubes tied right after delivery actually get the procedure done, and Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the United States. They also require an extra form be filled out at least a month before the procedure.
Why it matters: When looking specifically at unwanted births, Researchers found women on Medicaid were 56% less likely to get the sterilization procedure they wanted.
Source: Contemporary OBGYN
ABORTION ACCESS
Trump: National Abortion Ban ‘Very Reasonable’
What: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said today that a 15-week national abortion ban is “very reasonable.”
Why it matters: If Trump gets back into the White House, he can use executive actions to effectively make a nationwide abortion ban a reality – including in blue states. And while he likes to claim that there needs to be exceptions, we’ve seen how that works in reality in states like Texas, which forces women to live as incubators for nonviable fetuses.
Source: Axios
Why Women Actually Go to the ER After Taking the Abortion Pill
What: The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the abortion pill next week, with right-wing, religious groups arguing that it is unsafe for women. (It is not.) Salon explains that their arguments focus on women going to the ER after taking the abortion pill. But the data shows that 51% of those visits resulted in “observational care,” meaning no treatment or diagnosis was needed.
Why it matters: Often women might go to the ER to see if the pill actually worked, since a pregnancy test will take several weeks to work again. They can also show up to make sure they are not bleeding more than they should – an imprecise art, to say the least, given how much menstruation bleeding can vary from person to person.
Source: Salon
ONCOLOGY
The Dense Breast Tissue Mammogram Problem
What: A deep dive into breast cancer screening and the women working to let women with “dense” breast tissue, estimated to be about 50% of the population, know that mammograms may not help them identify cancerous tumors.
Why it matters: The failure rate of mammograms is 1% for women without dense breast tissue, but could be as high as 40% for women with dense tissue. Supplemental screening—like an ultrasound or MRI—might not be covered by insurance until federal guidelines, currently under debate, are updated.
Source: The Assembly
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