Ron DeSantis’ Relentless War on Trans Kids Hits a New Low
Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Emile Fox learned that the Florida Board of Medicine, the rule-making body for doctors in his state, was considering banning transgender medical care for youth, he thought about his own transition. Fox, a…
Ron DeSantis’ Relentless War on Trans Kids Hits a New Low
Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Emile Fox learned that the Florida Board of Medicine, the rule-making body for doctors in his state, was considering banning transgender medical care for youth, he thought about his own transition. Fox, a…
VA Will Provide Abortions to Eligible Vets—Even in States That Forbid It
Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The US Department of Veterans Affairs will begin offering abortion services for the first time, opening up new options for veterans and other VA beneficiaries whose pregnancies resulted from rape or incest or otherwise pose a threat…
Inside the Kafkaesque Process for Determining Who Gets Federal Disability Benefits
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Albert Diaz, then 41, took his seat in the Social Security Administration’s hearing room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in October 2011, he had to lower himself onto his left buttock to avoid stabbing pain in his right leg. His…
A Texas Judge Ruled Against the Biden Administration’s Emergency Abortion Guidance
Without the protection of federal guidance, even severe medical emergencies may not qualify patients for abortion ban exceptions.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, you would have had to prove you were fewer than six weeks pregnant to get an abortion in…
An Explosive New Report Could Upend More than a Decade of Alzheimer’s Research. How Did This Happen?
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than 15 years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota announced they had made a breakthrough: When they purified a protein from the brains of genetically modified mice and injected it into rats, it…