麻豆女优

Skip to main content

The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.

Subscribe Follow Us
  • Trump 2.0

    Trump 2.0

    • Agency Watch
    • State Watch
    • Medicaid Watch
    • Rural Health Payout
  • Public Health

    Public Health

    • Vaccines
    • CDC & Disease
    • Environmental Health
  • Audio Reports

    Audio Reports

    • What the Health?
    • Health Care Helpline
    • 麻豆女优 Health News Minute
    • An Arm and a Leg
    • Health Hub
    • HealthQ
    • Silence in Sikeston
    • Epidemic
    • See All Audio
  • Special Reports

    Special Reports

    • Bill Of The Month
    • The Body Shops
    • Broken Rehab
    • Deadly Denials
    • Priced Out
    • Dead Zone
    • Diagnosis: Debt
    • Overpayment Outrage
    • Opioid Settlement Tracking
    • See All Special Reports
  • More Topics

    More Topics

    • Elections
    • Health Care Costs
    • Insurance
    • Prescription Drugs
    • Health Industry
    • Immigration
    • Reproductive Health
    • Technology
    • Rural Health
    • Race and Health
    • Aging
    • Mental Health
    • Affordable Care Act
    • Medicare
    • Medicaid
    • Children’s Health

  • Medical Marijuana
  • Medigap Premiums
  • Food Stamp Work Rules
  • Patients in ICE Custody
  • RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Testimony

Morning Briefing

Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations

  • Email

Wednesday, Oct 8 2025

Full Issue

Judge Thwarts Trump's Changes To Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

In her ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said the policy change was 鈥渕otivated solely by political concerns, devoid of any considered process or analysis." Meanwhile in the courts, Missouri's attorney general tries to access medical records for patients who have had abortions.

A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump鈥檚 administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump鈥檚 orders aimed at curtailing 鈥渞adical indoctrination鈥 and 鈥済ender ideology.鈥 The ruling is a victory for three Planned Parenthood affiliates 鈥 in California, Iowa and New York 鈥 that sued to try to block enforcement of a U.S. Department of Human Services policy document issued in July that they contend contradict the requirements of the grants as established by Congress. (Mulvihill, 10/7)

On tracking abortion seekers in Missouri and Texas 鈥

Missouri鈥檚 Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who鈥檝e had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings. The fight over the subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year by Planned Parenthood Great Plains, the abortion provider鈥檚 affiliate for Kansas City, and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, the affiliate for St. Louis. Planned Parenthood officials argue that the state鈥檚 restrictions violate an amendment to the Missouri Constitution narrowly approved by voters in November to protect abortion rights. (Hanna, 10/7)

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried surveillance company Flock Safety's data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was 鈥渂eing searched for as a missing person,鈥 and that 鈥渋t was about her safety.鈥澛燭he new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," logged evidence of a woman鈥檚 self-managed abortion, and consulted prosecutors about possibly charging her.聽 (Maass and Alajaji, 10/7)

On reproductive health access in Wisconsin, Tennessee, Colorado, and Wyoming 鈥

Care for All Community Clinic in Milwaukee has been overwhelmed with calls lately. The independent, nonprofit clinic opened in June as Wisconsin's fifth abortion provider, and has been hiring more staff to keep up with demand, said co-founder and executive director Ali Kliegman. The number of abortion procedures scheduled has doubled. Typically, the clinic could see patients within a day. Recently, it has been booking out a week. (Heim, 10/7)

Planned Parenthood has temporarily closed one of two Memphis clinics as a result of a federal appeals court decision that allowed the Trump administration to block patients from using Medicaid as their insurance at the reproductive health provider. A new federal law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump implements a one-year block for patients with Medicaid 鈥 TennCare in Tennessee 鈥 from getting care at Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide. (Wadhwani, 10/7)

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountain鈥檚 efforts to reopen its Durango clinic come amid an increasingly difficult landscape for reproductive health providers in Southwest Colorado and rural communities like it around the country. Tracy Anselmo, director of the La Plata County Public Health Department, said because Durango is the largest municipality in the area outside of Farmington, people seeking health care come from all over the Four Corners. 鈥淭he landscape in the southwest part of the state related to sexual and reproductive health is quite grim,鈥 Anselmo said. After being shuttered for just over a year, the Durango Planned Parenthood clinic will reopen this month for two days a week. (Toomer, 10/7)

The Wyoming Supreme Court may not issue its highly anticipated decision on whether the state constitution protects abortion rights until sometime closer to December, Chief Justice Lynne Boomgaarden told WyoFile.聽(Graham, 10/6)

Also 鈥

In the lead up to her son鈥檚 birth, Jacqueline made plans to call 911 for an ambulance to pick her up from her North Florida home and transport her to a hospital about an hour away. The second-time mom and Guatemalan immigrant, who has lived in the country for a decade, would have relied on her husband to drive her to the hospital. But a few months ago he was deported, leaving Jacqueline and her daughter without the family鈥檚 primary source of income, transportation and support. (Barclay and Luthra, 10/7)

This is part of the Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.
Newsletter icon

Sign Up For Our Newsletter

Stay informed by signing up for the Morning Briefing and other emails:

Recent Morning Briefings

  • Today, April 23
  • Wednesday, April 22
  • Tuesday, April 21
  • Monday, April 20
  • Friday, April 17
  • Thursday, April 16
More Morning Briefings
RSS Feeds
  • Podcasts
  • Special Reports
  • Morning Briefing
  • About Us
  • Republish Our Content
  • Contact Us

Follow Us

  • RSS

Sign up for emails

Join our email list for regular updates based on your personal preferences.

Sign up
  • Editorial Policy
  • Privacy Policy

漏 2026 麻豆女优