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• Student Who Sued Military Over HIV Policy Settles Case “I just want an opportunity to serve my country, and I believe that should be available to all eligible Americans.”
  Associated Press, September 28, 2022
• Teen Interest in Long-Lasting Birth Control Soars After Roe Experts say the US Supreme Court's June ruling appears to be accelerating a trend of increased birth control use among teens, including long-acting reversible forms like intrauterine devices and implants.
  Associated Press, September 27, 2022
• White House: GOP Abortion Ban Would Mean a Nationwide Crisis The White House and the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists say a proposal to ban abortion nationwide after 15 weeks would harm the health of women and have severe consequences for doctors.
  Associated Press, September 22, 2022
• Jury Awards $100K; Woman Says She Lost Job Over Flint Data “They (the health department) said she wasn’t a team player. Virtually nothing at trial showed she wasn’t a team player,” the lawyer said.
  Associated Press, September 22, 2022
• FDA Concedes Delays in Response to Baby Formula Shortage "For things that are critical to the public health, if you don't have some understanding of how all the pieces fit together, then when you get into a crisis or a shortage you have a real problem."
  Associated Press, September 21, 2022
• NYC Ending Vaccine Mandate for Private Employers on Nov 1 It remains the largest place in the US to have made vaccines mandatory as a workplace safety measure.
  Associated Press, September 20, 2022
• Montana to Allow Transgender People to Change Birth Record The judge issued a scathing order Monday morning saying health officials made 'calculated violations' of his order.
  Associated Press, September 20, 2022
• They Ended Wanted Pregnancies. Post-Roe, They Face New Pain. Women say these terminations for medical reasons don't feel like a choice -- instead they are forced upon them by the condition of the fetus they carry. Six of these women share their stories.
  Associated Press, September 19, 2022
• Climate Change Jeopardizes Healthcare Services, Report Says Medical centers around the country say that fires, flooding, heat waves, and other extreme weather are jeopardizing medical services and damaging healthcare facilities, according to a new report.
  Associated Press, September 16, 2022
• States Scramble as US Abortion Landscape Shifts Here is a deeper look at the current state of the shifting national landscape.
  Associated Press, September 16, 2022
• Montana Defies Order on Transgender Birth Certificates ACLU attorney Malita Picasso expressed dismay with the agency's stance and said officials should immediately start processing requests for birth certificate changes.
  Associated Press, September 16, 2022
• Thousands of Striking Nurses Return to Work in Minnesota
  Associated Press, September 15, 2022
• New Census Data Shows How Much Pandemic Changed American Lives The data release offers the first reliable glimpse of life in the US during the COVID-19 era.
  Associated Press, September 15, 2022
• California Governor OKs Mental Health Courts for Homeless While it shares some elements of programs in other states, the system would be the first of its kind in the country, according to the office of Democratic state Sen. Tom Umberg.
  Associated Press, September 15, 2022
• California Launches Website Promoting Abortion Services The state budget includes $200 million to strengthen access to abortion in California, including $1 million to build a website promoting the state's abortion services.
  Associated Press, September 14, 2022
• Court Rehears Fight Over Vaccine Mandate for Federal Workers The full 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a three-judge panel ruling of the same court, which had upheld Biden's vaccine requirement for executive branch workers, and agreed to rehear the case.
  Associated Press, September 13, 2022
• In a Nod to JFK, Biden Pushing 'Moonshot' to Fight Cancer Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC ranks as the second-highest killer of people in the US.
  Associated Press, September 12, 2022
• Planned Parenthood Maps Strategy to Protect Abortion Rights Planned Parenthood leaders from 24 states gathered in California's capital Friday to begin work on a nationwide strategy to protect and strengthen access to abortion.
  Associated Press, September 12, 2022
• In Indiana, a Shifting Abortion Landscape Without Clinics Indiana's legislature became the first in the nation to approve abortion restrictions after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
  Associated Press, September 12, 2022
• Monkeypox Cases Dropping, but Racial Disparities Growing The number of infections is slowing after hitting a high of 870 cases in a single day on Aug. 22. But the decline has revealed deepening racial divides.
  Associated Press, September 08, 2022