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How Minnesota Figures Into the Presidential Politics of Insulin Prices
Minnesota led the way on insulin affordability, culminating in 2020 when Gov. Tim Walz signed a law going further to cut costs than other state laws. Now, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are vying for support from people with diabetes. (Bram Sable-Smith, 10/1)
Silence in Sikeston: Trauma Lives in the Body
Denzel Taylor, a young Black father, moved from Chicago to Sikeston, Missouri, for a fresh start in life. There, he proposed to his girlfriend, started a family, and then, in April 2020, was fatally shot by police officers. Taylor had two young daughters and another on the way when he was killed. Pediatrician Rhea Boyd talks about how children process such loss. (Cara Anthony, 10/1)
Get Your BOO On! Submit Your Scariest Halloween Health Care Haikus
Submissions are open for 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 sixth annual Halloween haiku competition. Send us your best scary poems 鈥 if you dare. (10/1)
Political Cartoon: 'The Oily Bird Gets the Worm'
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Political Cartoon: 'The Oily Bird Gets the Worm'" by Dan Thompson.
Here's today's health policy haiku:
THE MAGIC OF MEDICINE
GLP-1 shifts the scale.
A gentle nudge, cells respond,
weight fades, health restores.
- Anonymous
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Summaries Of The News:
Georgia Judge Voids Abortion Ban
In ruling that the six-week abortion ban violates the state's constitution guaranteeing the right to bodily autonomy, the judge's decision means the procedure will be allowed until about 22 weeks of pregnancy as the case winds through the court system.
A Georgia judge on Monday struck down a state law effectively prohibiting abortions beyond six weeks of pregnancy. The ruling, by Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court, is unlikely to be the final word because of the expectation that the case will ultimately be decided by the Georgia Supreme Court. Still, the ruling means that women seeking abortions in Georgia will have greater access, at least temporarily, to a procedure that has become mostly inaccessible in the South since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. (Chen, 9/30)
Starting Tuesday in Louisiana, the two drugs used in medication abortion 鈥 mifepristone and misoprostol 鈥 will be reclassified as controlled substances in the state, making it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to possess the drugs without a prescription.聽The law, the first of its kind in the nation, will designate the pills as Schedule IV controlled substances, a classification typically given to drugs that carry a potential for dependency or abuse, such as Ambien or Xanax. (Lovelace Jr., 9/30)
Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a rural Catholic hospital for allegedly refusing to provide an abortion to a patient even though her pregnancy was not viable and her health was at risk. The lawsuit accuses Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka of violating state laws by not providing abortions for people experiencing miscarriages or 鈥渙ther obstetric emergencies.鈥 It鈥檚 the first time post-Roe that a state has gone after a hospital for violations of abortion protections. The federal government has sued hospitals in Texas and Idaho, but no state has tested abortion-rights protections in this way. (Bluth, 9/30)
Saying courts "must trust the people to decide what information is important to them," a Leon County circuit judge Monday refused to issue a temporary injunction to block the state Agency for Health Administration from disseminating what critics call "misinformation" about a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion rights. (9/30)
Voters will decide Nov. 5 whether to preserve unfettered abortion access in Colorado in the state constitution and lift a 40-year-old state ban on the use of government funds for the procedure.聽Amendment 79, which requires the support of 55% of voters to pass, comes amid a wave of similar measures being considered across the country this year in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.聽 (Paul, 10/1)
Environmental Health And Storms
Medical Manufacturing Facility Closes In NC After Helene Causes Damage
Analysts are hopeful that other companies will be able to provide products typically made by Baxter International, which supplies intravenous and peritoneal dialysis solutions. Also, how medical providers are weathering the storm's aftereffects and helping those in need.
Baxter International Inc. has closed its biggest manufacturing facility after it was damaged when Hurricane Helene ripped through the US Southeast, causing widespread power outages and flooding. Baxter鈥檚 North Cove plant, located in Marion, North Carolina, is the largest manufacturer of intravenous and peritoneal dialysis solutions in the country. The disruption is expected to negatively impact the company鈥檚 financial results, according to a statement it released Sunday. (Muller, 9/30)
A Baxter International plant responsible for making IV fluids for most U.S. hospitals is among the major casualties from Hurricane Helene. The closure illustrated yet again how taking a single plant offline can trigger a domino effect felt around the world. "It's a very serious situation," said Allan Coukell, chief government affairs officer for the hospital-owned drugmaker Civica Rx, which is addressing supply chain constraints within its consortium of health system and pharma members. (Reed, 10/1)
Also 鈥
All western North Carolina hospitals have remained operational throughout Hurricane Helene and its aftermath. Stephen Lawler, head of the North Carolina Healthcare Association, has stayed in close contact with hospital leaders during the storm and initial days of recovery. He told NC Health News he hasn鈥檛 heard of any significant structural damage to the hospitals in the 25 counties and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hit hardest by the storm, where a federal major disaster declaration is now in place to facilitate easier aid. (Crumpler, 10/1)
As thousands across western North Carolina continue to deal with power outages, washed out roads and a trail of destruction, first responders from the Charlotte area are heading out to help. On Tuesday, Atrium Health is deploying its MED-1 mobile unit to the Town of Tryon in Polk County.
MED-1 is essentially a hospital on wheels, and once in Tryon, it will serve as a facility where patients can be triaged, treated, and either sent home or taken to a brick-and-mortar hospital if critical care is needed. (Calkins, 10/1)
Hurricane Helene caused damage to the ShorePoint Health Punta Gorda hospital and ER, causing it to remain closed for repairs. Andy Romine, chief executive officer for ShorePoint Health, said, 鈥淥ur priority is keeping safe, quality healthcare available to the community and we will reopen our Punta Gorda campus as soon as possible." (Knapp, 9/30)
The Red Cross鈥檚 disaster mental health teams, made up of psychologists and therapists, are on the ground to provide comfort alongside supplies. Enmanuel Villegas, a Salvation Army captain, flew from Boston to Georgia on Monday. He will lead a team focused on emotional care and physical needs. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e having conversations, helping people navigate their experiences, and listening to their stories,鈥 Villegas explained. (Hope, 9/30)
The PHE declaration gives the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services greater flexibility in meeting the needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and allows the ASPR to deploy teams to support local health requests, according to the HHS. ASPR has deployed about 200 personnel including Health Care Situational Assessment Teams to evaluate the impact on health care facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis centers, and Disaster Medical Assistance Teams to help state and local health workers provide care. While the immediate impacts of natural disasters 鈥 such as hurricanes 鈥 include injuries and deaths, there are longer-term health issues that PHEs can help address. (Kekatos, 9/30)
Hurricane Helene's wake of massive rains and flooding isn't just destructive to property 鈥 it is also a major health and safety risk, leaving residents in the storm's path stranded and potentially exposed to waterborne illnesses and other dangers.聽As authorities rush to airdrop supplies, restore power and clear roads, the number of storm-related聽deaths climbed past 100 across the Southeast. (Moniuszko, 9/30)
CVS To Lay Off 2,900 Staff, Looks At Breakup Option Amid Investor Pressure
CVS Health may be about to undergo dramatic changes in the face of pressure to cut costs and boost its performance 鈥 upheaval starts with 2,900 job losses mainly among corporate roles. Also in the news: Sentara Health, Houston's St. Joseph Medical Center, J&J, and more.
CVS Health said Monday that it will lay off about 2,900 people amid pressure from investors to cut costs and improve its financial performance. And more dramatic changes could be coming soon. A spokesperson for the health care giant, which has long been based in Woonsocket, R.I., and operates health insurer Aetna in Hartford, confirmed the cuts, which will primarily fall on corporate roles. (Logan, 9/30)
CVS Health, is exploring options that could include a break-up of the company to separate its retail and insurance units, as the struggling healthcare services company looks to turn around its fortunes amid pressure from investors, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. CVS has been discussing various options - including how such a split would work - with its financial advisers in recent weeks, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential. (Sen, 9/30)
Sentara Health plans to lay off 200 employees, mainly in its insurance division, due to a decline in Medicaid membership. The health system said following Medicaid redeterminations, Sentara Health Plans' Medicaid membership went down by 16%, or more than 115,000 members. (DeSilva, 9/30)
St. Joseph Medical Center could soon have a聽new owner聽as the saga involving its current owner, Steward Health Care, continues to play out in bankruptcy court and Congress. Healthcare Systems of America, an affiliate of California-based American Healthcare Systems, took over management of Houston鈥檚 only downtown hospital as part of an interim settlement agreement approved earlier this month in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. (MacDonald, 9/30)
In a groundbreaking experiment, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopic procedure on a pig 5,780 miles away in Hong Kong. This innovative feat was accomplished using a video game controller, paving the way for the future of remote surgeries in humans, particularly in areas lacking local medical expertise. (Knutsson, 10/1)
In pharmaceutical news 鈥
Johnson & Johnson has dropped its controversial plan related to the drug discount program less than a month after the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration sent a letter ordering the drugmaker not to implement it. In the letter, HRSA said the company would face federal sanctions because the program violated 340B drug discount program rules and had not received federal approval. Monday the agency said it received notice from Johnson & Johnson that the company was scrapping the initiative. (DeSilva, 9/30)
A network of illegal drug sellers based in the U.S., the Dominican Republic and India packaged potentially deadly synthetic opioids into pills disguised as common prescription drugs and sold millions of them through fake online drugstores, federal prosecutors said Monday. At least nine people died of narcotics poisoning between August 2023 and June 2024 after consuming the counterfeit pills, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan. (Matthews, 9/30)
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News:
How Minnesota Figures Into The Presidential Politics Of Insulin Prices
In June 2019, Lija Greenseid handed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an empty vial of insulin that her 13-year-old daughter had painted gold. Greenseid鈥檚 daughter has Type 1 diabetes, which means she requires daily injections of manufactured insulin to stay alive. The price of a single vial of insulin rose by about 1,200% between 1996 and 2018, and the gold vial was a reminder, Greenseid said, that this lifesaving pharmaceutical shouldn鈥檛 be as expensive as precious metal. (Sable-Smith, 10/1)
Steward Health Care CEO Sues To Stop Contempt Charges Against Him
In the lawsuit, Ralph de la Torre contends he is being punished "for invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to 鈥榖e compelled ... to be a witness against himself.鈥欌 The embattled chief refused to comply with a subpoena to testify to a Senate committee.
Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre filed a lawsuit Monday against a U.S. Senate committee that pursued contempt charges against him for failing to appear before the panel despite being issued a subpoena. ... The lawsuit claims that the lawmakers are unlawfully violating de la Torre鈥檚 constitutional rights. It alleges that the members of the committee, by trying to compel de la Torre to answer questions about Steward鈥檚 bankruptcy, are 鈥渃ollectively undertaking a concerted effort to punish Dr. de la Torre for invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to 鈥榖e compelled . . . to be a witness against himself.鈥 (LeBlanc, 9/30)
House Committee on Homeland Security Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra late last week for documents聽on the whereabouts of thousands of migrant children in the United States. 聽In a letter informing Becerra of the subpoena, Green wrote he previously requested documents in August on the 鈥渧etting, screening and monitoring鈥 of unaccompanied children鈥檚 sponsors by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS. 聽(O'Connell-Domenech, 9/30)
Congress left town last week after passing a stopgap funding bill, but it left behind a lot of unfinished business, much of it vital聽鈥 or threatening 鈥 to various segments of the healthcare system. It will all have to wait until after Election Day on Nov. 12, when voters will choose who holds power in the White House, House and Senate next year. Those results are likely to impact exactly what gets passed when lawmakers return and close out the 118th Congress in December. (McAuliff, 9/30)
In news about marijuana policy 鈥
If Florida passes the amendment [that would legalize recreational cannabis], the state would become something of an aberration. Although 24 other states already have legal pot on the books, just four of them voted for Donald Trump in 2020: Alaska, Missouri, Ohio, and Montana. Many top Republicans remain vehemently against legal weed, warning that the drug brings disorder and health risks, especially as marijuana has become more potent. (Florko, 9/30)
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed Donald Trump's comments on her racial identity, the value she places on mental health, and her support for legalizing marijuana with former NBA stars Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes on a podcast that aired on Monday. ... Harris reiterated a view she had expressed before becoming the Democrats' presidential candidate in July that cannabis should be decriminalized, citing the disproportionate impact that marijuana criminalization has had on Black people. "We know historically what that has meant and who has gone to jail." (Borter, 9/30)
An effort to expand Arkansas鈥 medical marijuana program fell short of the required signatures and won鈥檛 qualify for the November ballot, Secretary of State John Thurston said Monday. Arkansans for Patient Access, the group behind the measure, said it planned to take legal action to appeal Thurston鈥檚 decision. (DeMillo, 9/30)
California Bans 'Forever Chemicals' In Tampons, Other Menstrual Products
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, on Monday signed the bill that outlaws the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl in feminine products. Other news from around the country is on dengue fever in California, inmate medical records in Arizona, and more.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on Monday that will ban the sale of tampons and other menstrual products in California that contain certain levels of potentially toxic chemicals. The law would prohibit by 2025 the manufacture and sale of menstrual products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS. If such products have PFAS added unintentionally, the law requires that by 2027 manufacturers must keep them below a level to be determined by the Department of Toxic Substances Control. (Fry, 9/30)
California last week clocked its fourth case of locally transmitted dengue fever this year 鈥 an alarming rise in a sometimes-deadly disease that experts fear could be fueled by climate change. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health聽confirmed聽the newest incidence of the mosquito-borne illness in a resident of Panorama City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles鈥檚 San Fernando Valley. The department noted that the individual had not traveled to areas where dengue is endemic, and that the case appeared unrelated to聽three others, also locally acquired, that were reported in the county earlier this month. (Udasin, 9/30)
Medical records of some Arizona inmates were posted publicly online by the company that provides medical services in state prisons, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. On Monday, the ACLU聽notified the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry and its director that NaphCare had been posting personal medical records that were visible to anyone with an internet browser. (Torres, 9/30)
A plume of chlorine gas loomed over the skyline Monday, causing authorities to shut down schools and government offices while ordering tens of thousands of people to evacuate or huddle inside their homes in Rockdale County in north-central Georgia. Meanwhile, officials said the plumes probably were not a threat to most people in the Atlanta metropolitan area of 6.3 million. (Bailey, Edwards, Ajasa and Paul, 9/30)
On the fentanyl crisis 鈥
This summer, Dan Ciccarone, a physician and street drug researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, sent a team to gather data on the city's streets in areas where illicit fentanyl has been a killer for years. They found something unexpected. "The fentanyl supply is drying up for some reason," Ciccarone said. "Hang out on the streets, talk to people 鈥 the drugs are hard to find and more expensive." (Mann, 10/1)
Arkansas Sues YouTube, Alphabet Alleging Harms To Kids' Mental Health
The state says the video-based social media platform YouTube is deliberately addictive and is thus contributing to the mental health crisis among young people.
Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth in the state. Attorney General Tim Griffin鈥檚 office filed the lawsuit in state court, accusing them of violating the state鈥檚 deceptive trade practices and public nuisance laws. The lawsuit claims the site is addictive and has resulted in the state spending millions on expanded mental health and other services for young people. (DeMillo, 9/30)
Nearly a year since San Francisco鈥檚 CARE Court started, only five CARE agreements, or court-ordered treatment plans, have been reached, according to the San Francisco Superior Court. The city has received 42 petitions 鈥 a small fraction of the 1,000 to 2,000 people officials estimate could be eligible for the program in the city. About half of San Francisco鈥檚 cases have been dismissed. (Angst and Bollag, 9/30)
Irvo Otieno stopped breathing last year as multiple law enforcement officers and staff members at Virginia鈥檚 Central State Hospital restrained him for 11 minutes, in a case that sparked international headlines and drew widespread comparisons to prominent instances of police brutality against Black people. Now a jury will decide whether Otieno鈥檚 death 鈥 caught entirely on video 鈥 was a crime. (Vozzella and Rizzo, 9/30)
Migrant deaths have surged for a second year along this stretch of U.S.-Mexico border in West Texas and southern New Mexico. The personal and economic toll on migrant families of losing their loved one 鈥 often the breadwinner 鈥 is immense. But there is a hidden toll, too, on the border agents who find the bodies of migrants, or who fail trying to save the ones they find barely alive. (Villagran, 10/1)
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In related news about transgender health care 鈥
State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and conducted by the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, is the first to establish that such laws directly caused an increase in suicide attempts.聽(Yurcaba, 9/30)
As Gov. Tim Walz prepares to debate Sen. JD Vance Tuesday night, Minnesota鈥檚 status as a 鈥渢rans refuge鈥 state will likely be in the spotlight. 鈥淗e鈥檚 very heavy into transgender, anything transgender he thinks is great,鈥 former President Trump said on Fox the day after Walz was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris鈥 running mate. (Trump has pledged, if elected, to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.) (Simmons-Duffin, 10/1)
Even Vaccinated Kids Are Falling Ill As Whooping Cough Spikes
Reporting on the outbreak, Bloomberg reminds us that pertussis vaccines are not long-lasting and explains how delayed testing and diagnoses are contributing to the outbreak. In other news: Breast cancer continues to rise in younger women.
When Patricia Teklu鈥檚 daughter started coughing uncontrollably, her pediatrician said it was a routine asthma flare up. But that didn鈥檛 explain the eight nosebleeds she endured in just one day. 鈥淪he was coughing so much that she literally could not breathe,鈥 said Teklu, a 36-year-old software sales executive from Boston. The spasms were so severe that the 8-year-old was vomiting mucus and blood, causing a hemorrhage in both eyes that were swollen and black-and-blue. 鈥淚 had no idea what was going on.鈥 (Suvarna, 9/30)
Last year was the first time the United States had two approved methods for combating respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in infants, a maternal vaccine administered in the final weeks of pregnancy and the antibody nirsevimab given to infants under the age of 8 months during RSV season. But In Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, authors describe the results of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey which shows only 55.8% of infants were protected by maternal RSV vaccine, nirsevimab, or both. (Soucheray, 9/30)
In other health and wellness news 鈥
Rates of breast cancer 鈥 the second leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. women 鈥 climbed by 1 percent a year from 2012 to 2021, and even more sharply among women under age 50 and among Asian American/Pacific Islander women of all ages, according to an American Cancer Society report published on Tuesday. The biennial report is among the most comprehensive and detailed studies of breast cancer occurrence over recent years. One in 50 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer by the age of 50, the authors said, based on National Cancer Institute calculations. (Rabin, 10/1)
In its annual report of yearly procedures for 2023, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons dubbed the new popular look the 鈥渂allet body.鈥 Fueled by the rise of the blockbuster GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy, thinness appears to be making a comeback in the trend cycle. The reigning surgeries in the United States last year were liposuction, breast augmentation and the tummy tuck. And women displayed an increased preference for a smaller size of surgically sculpted breasts and buttocks, ASPS president Steven Williams said in an interview. The desired body of last decade 鈥 when the popularity of the Brazilian butt lift (BBL), which adds fat to the posterior, more than doubled 鈥 looked quite different. 鈥淭here really has been almost a decade of 鈥榤ore curves are better,鈥 and really glorifying those,鈥 Williams said. 鈥淎nd now it seems like we鈥檙e taking a bit of an abrupt turn to something a little bit more slim.鈥 (Vinall, 10/1)
While the United States has made considerable progress fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis since its peak in the 1980s, headway has not been equal among racial/ethnic groups. Overall, HIV rates have declined in the U.S. and the number of new infections over the last five years has dropped among Black Americans and white Americans. However, Hispanic and Latino Americans have not seen the same gains. (Kekatos, 9/29)
Former President Jimmy Carter is marking his 100th birthday 鈥 the first former president in United States history to do so. It's a major milestone for Carter, who has been in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, since February 2023. Carter lost his wife, Rosalynn Carter, in November, after 77 years of marriage. The former president attended his late wife's memorial service in a wheelchair.聽(Watson, 10/1)
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News:
Get Your BOO On! Submit Your Scariest Halloween Health Care Haikus
Boo! We scared you. Now it鈥檚 your turn to give our newsroom a scare. Submissions are now open for 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 sixth annual Halloween haiku competition. 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News has been publishing reader-submitted health care haikus for years and is on pins and needles to read how this spooky season inspires you. We want your best scary health care or health policy haiku. We鈥檒l share favorites on our social media channels, and members of our staff will pick the winners, announced on Thursday, Oct. 31. (10/1)
'Silence In Sikeston' Episode 3 Asks, What Happens To The Children?
Our 鈥淪ilence in Sikeston鈥 project, a multimedia collaboration from 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News, Retro Report, and WORLD, explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting on a rural Missouri community. Today, Episode 3 of our podcast explores the death of a young Black father and how children process loss.
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News:
Silence In Sikeston: Trauma Lives In The Body
Denzel Taylor, a young Black father, moved from Chicago to Sikeston, Missouri, for a fresh start in life. There, he proposed to his girlfriend, started a family, and then, in April 2020, was fatally shot by police officers. Taylor had two young daughters and another on the way when he was killed. Pediatrician Rhea Boyd talks about how children process such loss. (Anthony, 10/1)
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Viewpoints: More Doctors Treat Obesity As Prevention; Health Crises Shouldn't Hit Your Credit Score
Editorial writers dissect these public health issues.
Health care is undergoing a major paradigm shift. Some clinicians are shifting away from treating chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, back pain and fatigue 鈥 long the bread and butter of primary-care medicine 鈥 and toward targeting their common root cause: obesity. (Leana S. Wen, 10/1)
The impact of medical debt being included on my credit report is the very definition of adding insult to injury. It鈥檚 aged me. I already struggled to keep up with the cost of living to begin with, and now that struggle is even harder. There鈥檚 no money left over after paying my bills to pay off the medical debt or put money into my retirement fund. (George Curlee, 9/30)
One of the World Health Organization鈥檚 most important jobs is managing viral outbreaks. The rapid spread of mpox, a disease related to smallpox, is a reminder of its shortcomings. (10/1)
鈥淎bortion, framed as a threat, mobilizes Black people to engage in politics,鈥 said Christopher Towler, director of the Black Voter Project. 鈥淎bortion is motivating Black support for Harris in a way that it didn鈥檛 for Biden.鈥 (Nia-Malika Henderson, 10/1)