Carter Sherman

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

More than 10 days after the Trump administration froze roughly $66m of federal funds that had been earmarked for no- and low-cost family planning services,the providers that had been scheduled to receive that money are staring down the possibility of financial collapse. Title X, the country’s largest federal family planning program, provides clinics across the country with more than $200m each year for services such as contraception, STI tests and cancer screenings.

1 week ago | jill.substack.com | Jessica Grose |Joan Walsh |Hannah Allam |Carter Sherman

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

On paper, it should not be difficult for Dr Sebastian Ramos to learn to perform abortions. As a family medicine doctor, Ramos works in a specialty that frequently provides the procedure. He lives in deep-blue California, where it is still allowed. And the administrators running Ramos’s residency program – a kind of apprenticeship that US doctors must undergo to become full-fledged physicians – support Ramos’s desire to learn how to do it.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

The charges against a Georgia woman who was found bleeding and unconscious after a miscarriage were dropped on Friday. The woman, 24-year-old Selena Maria Chandler-Scott, was arrested late last month after emergency responders were called in to treat her, according to a police press release. A witness reported that Chandler-Scott had “placed the fetus in a bag and placed that bag in a dumpster outside”, police said.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Carter Sherman

In its first abortion-related case since Donald Trump retook control of the White House, the US supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning in a case challenging South Carolina’s attempt to effectively “defund” Planned Parenthood because the reproductive health giant performs abortions.