PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 1 [Category: Medical] -- The American College of Physicians issued the following news release: Statement attributable to: Omar T. Atiq, MD, MACP President, American College of Physicians WASHINGTON March 1, 2024 - The American College of Physicians (ACP) strongly supports efforts to restore and protect individuals and institutions who provide in vitro fertilization (IVF) services. As we have seen access to reproductive health services threatened across this   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 2 -- The National Center for Lesbian Rights issued the following statement by Federal Policy Director Julianna Gonen after her participation in a White House roundtable on access to in vitro fertilization services on March 1, 2024: * * * "The alarming decision by the Alabama Supreme Court holding that frozen embryos are persons under the state's wrongful-death law is shocking and yet predictable. "It comes amidst a widespread assault on individuals and familie  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice issued the following news release: Ahead of the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Senator Raphael R. Warnock, Senator Richard Durbin, and others reintroduced the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. This legislation is named after the late Congressman and civil rights icon Rep. John R. Lewis, who risked his life for the right to vote. The bill would restore and modernize the 1965 Voting Rights Act an  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina submitted Priority Climate Action Plans (PCAPs) as the first deliverable under the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Pollution Reduction grant program. In March 2023, forty-five states sought and received $3 million each in planning grant funds to develop ambitious plans to inventory and reduce s  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Congressman Bruce Westerman (AR), introduced the America's Wildlife Habitat Conservation Act (AWHCA), a comprehensive bill that seeks to enhance fish and wildlife habitat across the country. "The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies appreciates Chairman Westerman's commitment to providing funding to state fish  more