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Many patients take mifepristone and misoprostol, the same regimen used for medication abortion, for management of pregnancy complications, such as miscarriages that occur within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

BY RIEHAM OWDA | As an obstetrician and gynecologist providing abortion care in the Midwest, I’m fervently hoping mifepristone will remain available—not only for my patients seeking to end a pregnancy, but also for those who have miscarried.

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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks to the media at the U.S. Capitol on April 26, 2023, after the House passed a bill raising the nation’s debt ceiling. The bill also includes sweeping spending cuts over the next decade. It’s not expected to pass the Senate, and President Joe Biden would veto it if it did. (Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images)

BY THOMAS WALDROP, KIMBERLY KNACKSTEDT and REBECCA VALLAS | On April 26, the House passed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill, the “Limit, Save and Grow Act.” If enacted, the bill would create new work reporting requirements, stripping Medicaid coverage from adults unable to document eighty hours of work or community service per month.

As debt ceiling negotiations continue, we're reminded that work reporting requirements are unnecessary, harmful and ultimately counter to the goals of the Medicaid program. Here’s why.

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There are two different ways to have a medication abortion and end a pregnancy: using two different medicines, mifepristone and misoprostol, or using only misoprostol. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

BY SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | A pernicious fallacy in Kacsmaryk’s opinion that has not gotten much coverage: that an individual’s decision to abort is saturated with eugenic meaning.

The equation of abortion with genocide or eugenics is a misogynistic claim to shame and blame those who choose abortion.

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