Groups sue to stop Florida’s gender-affirming care ban for kids

[ad_1] The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for adults and adolescents. But medical experts said gender-affirming care for children rarely, if ever, includes surgery. Instead, doctors are more likely to recommend counseling, social transitioning and hormone replacement therapy. “The transgender medical bans alsoContinue Reading

Greens sue Biden over Willow oil project approval

[ad_1] BLM failed to follow requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act to consider alternatives that would lessen the project’s impact on the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, or NPR-A, or to take a required “hard look” at the project’s cumulative impacts, including on climate change, the suit alleges. The groups alsoContinue Reading

12 US states sue to expand access to abortion pill

[ad_1] Washington: A total of 12 states in the US have launched a lawsuit saying that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hampering access to a popular abortion pill, the media reported. Mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen that induces abortions was approved in 2000, with restrictions to assureContinue Reading