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Nearly three years ago, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal effectively ended legal abortion in the country. Since then, the Polish government has vigorously repressed the nation’s reproductive rights movement and ramped up surveillance of women who are suspected of terminating their pregnancies. (Patrick Adams, 9/14)

Does truth matter to Kansas’ antiabortion conservatives? The question pops up — once again — because State Treasurer Steven Johnson last week announced that a newly-formed nonprofit group, the Kansas Pregnancy Care Network, was being picked to run the state’s new $2 million “Alternatives to Abortion” program. KPCN was chosen over two other out-of-state bidders that met eligibility requirements. (Joel Mathis, 9/14)

Long Covid goes by many names. Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Although its prevalence has recently decreased to 6% of the U.S. adult population, there has been no significant progress in understanding its causes, prevention, or treatment. Long Covid still looms as the national health disaster many predicted. (Steven Phillips and Michelle A. Williams, 9/14)

As a doctor, a mother and the head of the C.D.C., I would not recommend anything to others that I wouldn’t recommend for my own family. My 9- and 11-year-old daughters, my husband, my parents and I will all be rolling up our sleeves to get our updated Covid-19 vaccines along with our flu shots soon. I hope you and the people you care about will do the same. (CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, 9/13)