Medicaid is the primary source of family planning coverage, accounting for 75% of public expenditures for family planning services in the United States.
Prenatal vaccines provide important protection for pregnant women and newborns against communicable diseases such as whooping cough and influenza.
On April 12, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking to address the privacy of protected health information related to reproductive health care services.
Less than one year after the Supreme Court overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and “returned [the issue of abortion back] to the people and their elected...
Rachel Sher was quoted in Pink Sheet about the recent lawsuits challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to approve and regulate drugs, specifically the medication abortion drug mifepristone, and how they may undermine...
Manatt Litigation Partner Ronald Blum will speak on a panel session titled “Post-Roe: Reproductive Rights & Pro Bono” at the Pro Bono Institute (PBI) 2023 Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C., on February 24, 2023.
On January 3, the Biden Administration took additional steps to ease access to FDA-approved abortion medication in the United States, further wading into the legal and political chaos that has sprung up in the wake of the decision by the Supreme...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, women no longer have access to abortion care in more than a dozen states, and even obtaining information about abortion care is fraught with...
In the post-Dobbs world, where a woman’s ability to get an abortion is left to individual states, dissemination of information about abortion-related services has become crucial to ensuring women can access abortion care.
In the aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision, there is ongoing discussion about the role that medication abortion—particularly tele-medication abortion (teleMAB)— will play in connecting women to abortion services.