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Budget, vaccines, judicial ethics: 6 key MD laws going into effect July 1
Here are some key Maryland policies that take effect July 1, from the new budget to vaccinations to contraception.
Md. ethics panel cautions judges on discussing Dobbs, ramifications
Judges speaking on the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade must not discuss their personal views, the Maryland Judicial Ethics Committee says.
House OKs bill to protect contraception from Supreme Court
The right to use contraceptives would be enshrined in law under a measure that Democrats pushed through the House.
Democrats, health leaders protest potential loss of women’s health service funds
Maryland’s congressional delegation and Baltimore City officials denounced Monday a proposed federal rule that they say could restrict access to women‘s health and reverse work made to improve health outcomes, […]
Christian college loses contraceptive challenge
The Obama administration won a reversal of a court ruling that would have shielded a Christian college from a provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring religious nonprofits to indirectly facilitate contraceptive coverage even if they oppose the use because of their faith.
Ruling won’t alter birth-control coverage for many
Business owners who don't want to pay for their employees' birth control are ending that coverage after the Supreme Court said they could choose on grounds of religious belief not to comply with part of the health care law.
Justices: Can’t make all employers cover contraception
The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
D.C. Circuit weighs religious exemption for health law
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court is considering whether for-profit businesses can be exempted from a contraceptive mandate in the health care law because of the owners’ religious views. The […]
Feds now back morning-after pills for all girls
NEW YORK — After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will […]
Court to allow girls to buy morning-after for now
NEW YORK — A federal appeals court has decided to permit girls of any age to buy generic versions of emergency contraception without prescriptions while the federal government appeals a […]
Jack L.B. Gohn: Contraception, an unrepresentative church, and unresponsive courts
At this writing we still don’t have an outcome, either regulatory or political, in the fight between the President and the bishops over the proposed mandate that employers, including Catholic […]
Too much information? Birth control choices abound
WASHINGTON — Worried about birth control in light of headlines about side effects from Yaz and the patch? Women have a lot of options that are safe and effective, including […]
