Tag: women
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Mike Johnson bans transgender women from Capitol women’s restrooms
Mike Johnson bans transgender women from Capitol women’s restrooms – CBS News Watch CBS News House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday took aim at incoming Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride, the first ever transgender member elected to Congress, with his decision to bar transgender people from using bathrooms in the Capitol Complex that do not align…
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Pay first, deliver later: Some women are being asked to prepay for their baby
In April, just 12 weeks into her pregnancy, Kathleen Clark was standing at the receptionist window of her OB-GYN’s office when she was asked to pay $960, the total the office estimated she would owe after she delivered. Clark, 39, was shocked that she was asked to pay that amount during this second prenatal visit.…
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Women suing over Idaho abortion ban say they felt like “medical refugees”
Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own…
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Women switched at birth in 1965 claim error was covered up for decades: “They kept it secret”
In 1965, a Norwegian woman gave birth to a baby girl in a private hospital. Seven days later she returned home with a baby. When the baby developed dark curls that made her look different from herself, Karen Rafteseth Dokken assumed she just took after her husband’s mother. It took nearly six decades to discover…
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Idaho women denied abortions testify in trial
Idaho women denied abortions testify in trial – CBS News Watch CBS News Four women who were denied abortions in Idaho began testifying on Tuesday in a case that seeks to clarify medical exceptions under the state’s near-total ban. CBS News correspondent Nicole Valdes has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for…
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A look at a Navy submarine designed with women in mind
A look at a Navy submarine designed with women in mind – CBS News Watch CBS News The USS New Jersey is one of the newest submarines to join the U.S. Naval fleet. It’s the first Navy submarine designed with women in mind, and it boasts a crew that includes 40 women sailors. Charlie D’Agata…
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Submarine designed with women in mind joins U.S. Navy fleet
The USS New Jersey made waves when it was commissioned — the first submarine in the U.S. Navy’s fleet designed specifically with women in mind. It is Machinist Mate Kianna Gonzalez’s first submarine. “I am the first female on this boat to qualify as an engine room supervisor,” she told CBS News. She is looking…
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Harris saw less support from women voters than her predecessors
Harris saw less support from women voters than her predecessors – CBS News Watch CBS News For the second time in the past decade, a woman at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket failed to secure the White House. While Vice President Kamala Harris secured the majority of female voters, she had less support…
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2 women and boy shot dead at altar to folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” in Mexico
A local leader of the Mexican folk saint cult “La Santa Muerte” was gunned down at an altar to the skeletal figure late Friday, authorities said. Two other people were killed and eight injured in the attack in the city of Leon, in Guanajuato state, the authorities added. The saint – whose name means roughly…
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How strict abortion bans threaten health care for all women
The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade has had an impact on women’s health beyond abortion, accelerating a gap in obstetrics and gynecological care in some states across the country. In Texas, the first state to implement more restrictive abortion laws, a fear of discussing abortion has impacted doctors practicing there and…