All posts tagged "Healthcarepolicy"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Joining the growing list of legislation related to transgender North Carolinians, access to gender-affirming care for some transgender minors may be on the line this year. A new proposal would prohibit the use of public health care facilities or state money for various forms of gender-affirming care for transgender minors. That includes puberty-blocking drugs, hormone-replacement therapy or gender transition surgery. The plan by Republican lawmakers also outlines a list of public health care facilities that would be barred from such practices, including the UNC Health Care sy......

SAN DIEGO — The first day that asylum seekers could make appointments through their smartphones to request protection at U.S. ports of entry, a 22-year-old mother and her three children in Tijuana rushed to try to secure their own place in the digital line. More than three months later, she and thousands of other asylum seekers waiting in Mexico are still trying. Though the pandemic-era policy that created this smartphone appointment process — Title 42 — is set to end Thursday, asylum seekers’ experiences aren’t likely to change anytime soon. A decades-old measure invoked by the Trump administ......

SAN DIEGO — A Honduran woman, her four children and 2-year-old grandchild slept on a sidewalk near the San Ysidro Port of Entry on Tuesday night. The woman, who has already spent about six months in Tijuana, said she'd heard that Title 42, a policy that blocks asylum seekers from reaching U.S. soil and expels many of those who cross anyway, would be ending Wednesday. It would be her chance to finally be able to request asylum in the United States. But when the day arrived, her face fell as she realized that her wait in limbo was not yet over. Title 42, which went into effect at the beginning o......

WASHINGTON — There is a shadow looming over the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Missouri. For months, former Gov. Eric Greitens has continued to lead the polls in the Republican primary. He’s led as Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed lawsuits to get rid of public health protections to limit the spread of COVID-19. He’s led as Rep. Vicky Hartzler picked up the endorsement of Sen. Josh Hawley. He’s led even as his ex-wife accused him of domestic abuse, on top of earlier claims that he sexually assaulted and blackmailed his mistress. And after back-to-back defeats in U.S. Senate r......

About 115,000 Cubans — more than one percent of the island’s population — have left their homeland fleeing poverty and repression and reached the U.S. in the past seven months, a mass migration wave on a scale not seen in four decades that has prompted recent changes in U.S. policy and provided the Cuban government an escape valve following unprecedented protests last year. Between October of last year and April, immigration authorities detained 114,916 Cubans, the vast majority at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the most recent data published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Cubans......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas bill that would ban mask mandates from any government institution on any public health matter is circling the drain following a veto from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Kelly announced the veto late Friday on the grounds that the legislation would constrain public health authorities from responding to outbreaks of any illness. “I have consistently opposed vaccine passports and mandating any COVID-19 vaccination. However, this bill goes beyond COVID-19 and implements a one-size-fits-all approach for all infectious diseases. It significantly limits any government entity......