Primary Care Disrupted
By Eric Harkleroad
June 29, 2023
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Featured Stories Featured Video As States Pass Abortion Bans, OB-GYNs Stage an Exodus KFF Health News senior correspondent Sarah Varney traveled to Idaho to produce a segment in partnership with PBS NewsHour on OB-GYNs leaving the state after it passed a strict abortion ban. More Stories from the Project Credits Reporters Michelle AndrewsJulie ApplebyLynn Arditi, […]
Watch: Rulings on Abortion Pill Have Far-Reaching Repercussions
By Sarah Varney
April 10, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Sarah Varney, a senior correspondent for KHN, joins Ali Rogin of PBS NewsHour to discuss the ruling by a federal judge in Texas that threatens nationwide access to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone, and a separate ruling in Washington state that reached the opposite conclusion.
Journalists Discuss Abortion Lawsuits and the Pros and Cons of Health Care Sharing Plans
July 22, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Watch: 5th Circuit Judges Question Two-Decade-Old Approval of Abortion Pill
By Sarah Varney
May 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by conservative Christian abortion opponents seeking to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone, a medication used in more than half of abortions in the U.S.
Watch: Walgreens Won’t Sell Abortion Pill in 21 States Under GOP Threat of Legal Action
By Sarah Varney
March 6, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Under pressure from Republican attorneys general, the nation’s second-largest pharmacy chain says it will not dispense the abortion pill mifepristone.
Watch: Anti-Abortion Activists Rally in DC in a Watershed Moment for Their Movement
By Sarah Varney
January 23, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Friday’s annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., held for the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, signals a new chapter in the anti-abortion movement.
Listen: Why Childbirth Is So Dangerous for Many Young Teens
By Sarah Varney
October 17, 2022
KFF Health News Original
KHN senior correspondent Sarah Varney talks with NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” about how the abortion bans proliferating in many U.S. states will affect teenage birth rates and the physical risks that trend poses for girls.
‘Science Friday’ and KHN: Examining Medicine’s Definition of Death Informs the Abortion Debate
By Sarah Varney
September 7, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Why is it so hard to agree when life begins? As state abortion laws define it, science, politics, and religion are clashing. KHN’s Sarah Varney shared her reporting with the “Science Friday” radio program.
Watch: Fifty Years after ‘Roe,’ Abortion Rights Battle Shifts to the States
By Sarah Varney
January 24, 2023
KFF Health News Original
On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we asked people across the U.S. what the abrupt upending of abortion rights has meant to them, and we lay out the stakes in the battles ahead.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Part II: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’
January 27, 2023
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In Part II of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be the flashpoints for 2023. Also, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their most memorable reproductive health stories from the last year.
At Stake in Mifepristone Case: Abortion, FDA’s Authority, and Return to 1873 Obscenity Law
By Sarah Varney
March 25, 2024
KFF Health News Original
The end goal for a conservative Christian group’s mifepristone case before the Supreme Court: a de facto nationwide abortion ban.
Watch: Crossing State Lines for Abortion Care
By Sarah Varney
June 29, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Illinois is one of the few states in the middle of the country where people can still legally access abortion care.
Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care
February 9, 2023
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Featured Stories A quote from a source in the series Video Explainer More Stories in the Series Where Else is Private Equity Making Inroads? A quote from a source in the series Explore the Database KFF Health News analyzed 600 deals by 25 firms PitchBook identified as the top private equity investors in health care. […]
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Supreme Court Overturns ‘Roe’
June 24, 2022
KFF Health News Original
It was expected, but the reality was still jarring: The Supreme Court has formally overturned Roe v. Wade, erasing the nearly 50-year-old guarantee of abortion rights nationwide. Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sarah Varney of KHN, and Laurie Sobel, associate director for women’s health policy at KFF, join KHN’s Julie Rovner for this special episode to talk about the decision and what happens next for reproductive health care.
Post-‘Roe,’ Contraceptive Failures Carry Bigger Stakes
By Sarah Varney
November 7, 2022
KFF Health News Original
Science Friday and KHN ran the numbers on birth control failure. Depending on the contraception method, typical-use error rates can add up to hundreds of thousands of unplanned pregnancies each year.
How the Texas Trial Changed the Story of Abortion Rights in America
By Sarah Varney
August 7, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Stark, plaintive testimony from women denied abortion care represents the start of “the 50-year fight to get rid of Dobbs,” one historian says.
In Wisconsin, Women’s Health Care Is Constricted by an 1849 Law. These Doctors Are Aghast.
By Sarah Varney
July 28, 2023
KFF Health News Original
From the front lines of Wisconsin’s abortion battle, obstetricians describe patients who cannot comprehend having to carry nonviable pregnancies. And only one pharmacist in town can be found who will fill prescriptions for abortion pills.
Groups Sue to Overturn Idaho ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Law Targeting Teens
By Sarah Varney
July 11, 2023
KFF Health News Original
It is illegal to help a minor obtain an abortion in Idaho or leave the state for one without parental consent. The lawsuit says the ban infringes on the right to interstate travel and First Amendment freedoms.
After Idaho’s Strict Abortion Ban, OB-GYNs Stage a Quick Exodus
By Sarah Varney
May 2, 2023
KFF Health News Original
At least two Idaho hospitals are ending labor and delivery services, with one citing the state’s “legal and political climate” and noting that “recruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficult” as doctors leave.
In Idaho, Taking a Minor Out of State for an Abortion Is Now a Crime: ‘Abortion Trafficking’
By Sarah Varney
May 8, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Under the nation’s first law of its kind, teens must have parental consent to travel for medical care, including in cases of sexual assault or rape. Any adult, including an aunt, grandparent, or sibling, convicted of violating the criminal statute faces up to five years in prison — and could be sued for financial damages.