Morgan Watkins
Health reporter with Louisville Public Media-
The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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SB 150 prohibits doctors from providing hormone therapy, including estrogen or testosterone treatment and medication that delays puberty, to patients under 18 years old. That portion of the law was set to take effect Thursday.
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Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry issued the order Tuesday. His decision came after the plaintiffs, including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Kentucky, formally asked to drop the case last week.
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HealthDr. Bruce Scott grew up in Louisville and built a career here as an otolaryngologist — also known as an ear, nose and throat doctor. Now, he’s the American Medical Association’s new president-elect.
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For more than 40 years, EMW Women’s Surgical Center provided abortions in Louisville.As recently as last spring, it was common to see anti-abortion activists posted up outside its clinic downtown, holding signs and confronting people going into the building. Clinic escorts were there, too, acting as a buffer between patients and protesters.On a cool morning earlier this month, though, the sidewalk outside the building was empty, except for the occasional passerby.
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The ACLU of Kentucky and Planned Parenthood filed motions Tuesday to dismiss the case they filed nearly a year ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and eliminated a nationwide right to abortion in June 2022.
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Payouts for Kentucky's $317M opioid settlement with firms like Walgreens, CVS to start within monthsThis is part of a broader pattern of settlements after state and local governments sued pharmaceutical businesses for making the United States’ addiction crisis worse.
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Two officials from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services appeared before state lawmakers to detail how their efforts to reduce turnover among social workers are going.
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Gov. Andy Beshear and other public officials gathered Wednesday to dedicate the monument on the Kentucky Capitol grounds, where it stands in recognition of the lives lost since the pandemic began in early 2020.
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HealthKentucky outlawed nearly all abortions last year. So now Kentuckians have to go to clinics in other states, like Illinois, Indiana and Virginia, to legally access abortion.