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Senator Lindsey Graham, though he puts it differently
(RS.C.) said access to abortion “is not a matter of state rights.”
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Graham: Abortion ‘Not a State Rights Issue’
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said Tuesday that abortion “is not a matter of state rights” as she continues to push for a bill to ban abortion nationwide in 15 weeks.
In an interview with Fox & Friends, Graham acknowledged that his law runs counter to federalism and the conservative idea of allowing individual states to decide their own laws.
- “This is not a state rights issue. This is a human rights issue,” Graham said. “So whatever California or Maryland does, I’m going to advocate for a national minimum standard.”
- Graham’s comments come a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as Republicans introduced legislation in Congress in what would be their most serious effort yet to pass a nationwide abortion ban. I was.
A sharp reversal: Mr. Graham said last month that the Supreme Court did the right thing by deferring abortion decisions to states in the wake of Democrats’ attempts to put abortion protections into federal law, but last week he contradicted himself. He said he hadn’t seen it, and had a motive to act.
Mr Graham said elected officials, including Congress, have the power to define and regulate abortion.
“Abortion is not banned in America. It is up to elected officials in America to define this issue. We can talk about this issue in Washington if we choose,” Graham said at a press conference introducing his bill. “I chose to speak.”
CVS and Walmart Reach $147 Million Opioid Settlement
CVS and Walmart have agreed to pay more than $147 million to settle lawsuits related to their alleged involvement in West Virginia’s opioid crisis, state attorney general Patrick Morrissey, a Republican, said Tuesday. announced to
The state argued that pharmacies, as distributors and dispensers, failed to maintain effective control over diversions that contributed to the state’s opioid oversupply.
“These settlements will not bring back the lives lost to the opioid epidemic, but these and other settlements are the ones most affected by this crisis in our state,” Morrissey said in a statement. I hope that it will be of great help to those who
Morrisey said Walmart agreed to a $65,070,000 settlement and CVS agreed to a $82.5 million settlement. The two were part of a larger trial involving other pharmacies that has yet to be resolved.
The lawsuit against remaining pharmacy defendants Walgreens and Kroger continues before a public action panel with a trial date of June 5, 2023.
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Task Force Recommends Regular Anxiety Screening
For the first time on Tuesday, a key federal commission recommended that all adults under the age of 65 undergo regular anxiety screenings.
The draft recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are not final and are open for comments until October 17, but the panel’s recommendations are generally adopted.
The task force also recommended screening adults for major depressive disorder.
The recommendation comes as the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a new wave of anxiety and depression among many Americans.
“The good news is that screening all adults, including those who are pregnant and postpartum, for depression, and adults under 65 for anxiety, will help us identify these conditions early and help people care. ,” said Lori Pbert of the Task Force. Member and co-author of the Recommendation.
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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans suffer from depression
A new study finds that more and more Americans are suffering from depression, and most are not seeking treatment or receiving treatment for their mental disorder.
Research published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine Nearly 1 in 10 Americans will reportedly suffer from depression in 2020, with higher rates of mental health disorders among adolescents and young adults.
- Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York used the 2015-2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, a nationally representative poll of Americans ages 12 and older. data was analyzed.
- Researchers have found that in 2020, more than 9% of Americans age 12 and older experienced a major depressive episode in the past year. The study’s authors note that depression has increased over the past few years, rising from 6.6% in 2005 to 7.3% in 2015.
Younger Skew: Depression, the most common mental disorder
Nationally, most common among young adults ages 18-25,
17%, up from 10.3% in 2015.
Fauci: We’re not ‘where we should be’ with pandemic
Anthony Fauci, America’s premier infectious disease expert, said on Monday that the U.S. needs to address the coronavirus pandemic after President Biden said the “pandemic is over,” the day after his interview with him aired. said he was not in a good place.
of Meeting with Institute for Strategic and International StudiesFauci, Biden’s top COVID-19 adviser, who announced his pending retirement from the government last month, said much would depend on how the country handles future variants of the virus.
“How we respond and how we prepare for the evolution of these subspecies is up to us. There is a lack of uniform acceptance of available interventions: 67% of our population has been vaccinated, and only half of them have received one booster,” Fauci said. .
- He noted that the country still has more than 400 daily deaths from COVID-19, but that number is down from a year ago.
- “But if we can ‘live with the virus,’ we are not where we need to be because we know we are not going to eradicate it. And because it doesn’t change from century to century, smallpox was very different,” Fauci added.
what we are reading
- Some people are finally getting their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine (Wall Street Journal)
- Ad spending shows Democrats have medium-term hopes for abortion (APs)
- Doctors say Graham’s abortion ban will force women to have transvaginal ultrasounds (NBC)
by state
- Studies have found that nearly one in four Flint residents may develop PTSD after a water crisis (ABC News)
- New York City’s COVID vaccine mandate for the private sector ends on November 1, leaving public employees (NBC New York)
- Texas Fights Teenage Pregnancy, Revises Sex Education Standards (Kaiser Health News)
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