What Trump/Rs are saying: Abortion should be up to 'the will of the people' in each state

What Rs are doing: Pushing bills, lawsuits, bureaucratic maneuvers and street-level confrontations to keep abortion off the ballot in Arizona, Missouri and beyond.

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New: Our KFF survey of Medicaid enrollees finds that 23% who say they were dropped during the unwinding of pandemic enrollment protections are now uninsured.

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Trump in November on Obamacare: Some Republicans decided 'not to terminate it. It was a low point for the Republican Party, but we should never give up!”

Trump now:

'As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal trial on Monday in New York, the tolerance of his tirades is perhaps the most glaring sign of the judicial system’s Trump exceptionalism. But it’s far from the only example.'
⁦James Romoser⁩ politico.com/news/magazine/…

On this week's #WTHealth , the latest on the abortion front with Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, and Rachel Roubein. Plus more on why health care costs to much.
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'Despite his attempt to fog up the issue with his new, state-based stance, Trump is still likely to pay a price with voters for appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.' politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

Former President Donald Trump said abortion is a state issue post-Roe. What he hasn’t said is how he’ll handle almost any of the chaos and complexity of leaving abortion rights to the states.

So we posed a list of questions to the Trump campaign —> politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

The Arizona Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law outlawing abortions at any stage of pregnancy, unless the patient's life is in danger. Here's what you need to know about what the decision said, when it takes effect, and what's next, via Alice Miranda Ollstein + me. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

.Kris Mayes: 'The 1864 [abortion ban] is bonkers. It was passed when Arizona wasn’t a state yet, when the Civil War was still raging and when women couldn’t vote. It’s obviously not something that the people of this state want to see imposed on women here” politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

Full ruling here: azcourts.gov/Portals/0/Opin…

The teen fertility rate ticked up in Texas in 2022 for the first time in decades. With abortion banned in Texas and access to contraception constrained, advocates and researchers expect those numbers to only increase.

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There used to be only one way for TX teens to get confidential contraception. After a (recently upheld) court ruling, that program now requires parental consent too.

One clinic has seen a 50% drop in teen visits.

texastribune.org/2024/04/08/tex…

Alcohol is a carcinogen, yet most drinkers don't know it. So beginning in 2026, Ireland will require all alcoholic beverages to carry a warning label. My story about a new strategy for curbing alcohol's growing harms in The New York Times : nytimes.com/2024/04/09/hea…