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Kristen Hwang CalMatters Medication abortion is still legal in California and across the U.S. A preliminary U.S. Supreme Court order on Friday April 21 preserves the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until the full merits of the case are heard by the...
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Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters El anuncio sorpresa del gobernador Gavin Newsom a través de Twitter el lunes de que California no haría negocios con el gigante farmacéutico Walgreens causó una confusión generalizada en un estado donde más de un tercio de la población paga las recetas con un...
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Kristen Hwang & Ana B. Ibarra CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom’s surprise announcement via Twitter this week that California would not do business with pharmacy giant Walgreens caused widespread confusion in a state where more than one-third of the population pays for prescriptions with government-funded health insurance. Walgreens confirmed last week it would...
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History teaches us that the party that controls the White House loses legislative seats in midterm elections. If anyone knows that lesson, it’s Barack Obama. In 2010, midway through his historic first term as the first African-American president, Republicans rode a “red wave,” winning 63 seats and regaining control...
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En Texas y California, las nuevas leyes hacen un llamado a las personas de cada estado para que vigilen e informen sobre sus vecinos, y obtengan una recompensa por hacerlo. Inusual, sí, aunque es un concepto que se remonta a los primeros días de la república estadounidense. Pero, ¿qué...
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In Texas and California, new laws call on the people of each state to watch and report their neighbors — and reap a reward for doing so. Unusual, yes — although it’s a concept that dates back to the earliest days of the American republic. But what do Civil...
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When a draft Supreme Court ruling that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion leaked Monday night, Democratic leaders in California reacted swiftly with shock, grief and fury. It didn’t take long for the personal devastation to turn political. By Wednesday morning, Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is running for...
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The recent leak about the intentions of the majority of conservative judges of the Supreme Court of Justice to eliminate the historic Roe vs. Wade ruling of 1973, which established constitutional protections for the right of women to choose over their bodies, raises the question of whether the highest...
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Los líderes del Caucus Legislativo de Mujeres de California prometieron proteger el derecho de una persona a abortar en el Estado Dorado después de que un borrador de opinión filtrado parece mostrar que la Corte Suprema de EE. UU. está lista para anular la decisión conocida como Roe v....