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Abortion is now illegal in Wyoming when there’s a “detectable fetal heartbeat.” In other states, this has been interpreted as a six-week ban. (Merzbach, 3/9)

People are leaving or avoiding living in states with abortion bans, a new paper shows — resulting in lower rental prices and higher vacancies than in states that protect reproductive rights. (Luthra, 3/9)

On transgender health care —

Larissa Godfrey-Smith, a therapist living and working in Washington, D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. There was one toilet. They were fed once: a baloney sandwich per person. One guard also gave them a few peanut butter crackers. By the end of the day, she just missed her kid. (Rummler, 3/9)

More health news from across the U.S. —

The Missouri Senate is considering a measure supporters say would increase the availability of medical care in the state by allowing some nurses to prescribe medications without physician oversight. (Fentem, 3/9)

When Dr. Ben Hughes arrived in Colorado in 2009 for his medical residency — a multiyear training period for new doctors — his plan was pretty simple. He was going to complete his education, and then he was going to move back to his home state of Texas to pursue his career as a pediatrician. (Ingold, 3/9)

State lawmakers are working on a bill that they say would create much-needed funding for Colorado’s emergency medical services and save the state millions of dollars a year in health care spending. (Woods, 3/10)

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is supporting a cost-savings plan that involves sharing city employees’ prescription drug data with a third-party health insurance administrator — a move that’s raised privacy concerns among public sector unions. The controversial policy highlights how the city is scrambling to find unconventional ways to cut overhead as a multibillion-dollar budget deficit has thrown Mamdani’s expensive policy agenda into disarray. (Sommerfeldt, 3/9)

A bill that would require all Minnesota high school coaches to be trained in CPR and to use an AED got bipartisan support in a state Senate committee Monday. (Kelley, 3/9)

Cahokia Heights residents have found E. coli in their drinking water through community-organized testing of samples from kitchen taps. The results raise new questions about infrastructure in a community plagued by sewage spills and flooding. (Cortes, Wimbley and O'Dea, 3/9)