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As a Florida law took effect Wednesday preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in Jacksonville — another sign of the political importance of abortion issues in the 2024 elections.
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Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz will be challenged by a former U.S. Navy pilot in the upcoming Republican primary. Former Navy Capt. Aaron Dimmock filed paperwork last week to challenge Gaetz in the August primary.
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In addition to the clinics, the company is taking down its virtual health service after concluding “there is not a sustainable business model for us to continue.”
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The list is compiled every year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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A memo was sent to Florida’s 12 public universities and colleges urging them to use any means necessary to keep grads and their families safe.
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Florida could follow 33 other states, as well as the District of Columbia, to allow high school athletes to make name, image and likeness (or NIL) money through sponsorship deals.
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Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care.
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Florida has been a major access point for abortion in the South. Now its residents, along with thousands more in the region, will have to seek abortion care elsewhere after six weeks of pregnancy.
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U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard rejected arguments by the state that the case should not proceed as a class action and denied a state request for a continuance of a trial set to start May 13.
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The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. in 2022 – while still high – went back to where it was before deaths surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest CDC report.
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In a new report, Democrats are increasingly motivated by the issue of abortion - and increasingly supportive, as are independent voters. Republicans views have mostly remained the same.
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In Wisconsin and Michigan, Donald Trump largely avoided the hush money trial that has mostly sidelined his campaign efforts as he tried to woo voters with a familiar speech in two major swing states.
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