Posted on 02/17/2023 11:13:05 AM PST by nickcarraway
Teen girls “are experiencing record high levels of violence, sadness, and suicide risk,” according to a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, according to the survey, nearly 3 in 5 U.S. teen girls reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless.”
Meanwhile, a conservative judge in Texas has delayed his ruling in a case that could ban a key drug used in medication abortion. A group of anti-abortion doctors is suing to challenge the FDA’s approval decades ago of the abortion pill mifepristone.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.
Panelists
Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico @AliceOllstein Read Alice's stories
Joanne Kenen Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico @JoanneKenen Read Joanne's stories
Sandhya Raman CQ Roll Call @SandhyaWrites Read Sandhya's stories
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
American teenagers reported record rates of sadness in 2021, with especially high levels of depression in girls and teens identifying as LGBTQ+, according to a startling CDC report. Sexual violence, mass shootings, cyberbullying, and climate change are among the intensifying problems plaguing young people.
New polling shows more Americans are dissatisfied with abortion policy than ever before, as a U.S. district court judge in Texas makes a last call for arguments on the fate of mifepristone. The case is undermining confidence in continued access to the drug, and many providers are discussing using only misoprostol for medication abortions. Misoprostol is used with mifepristone in the current two-drug regimen but is safe and effective, though slightly less so, when used on its own.
There are big holes in federal health privacy protections, and some companies that provide health care, like mental health services, exploit those loopholes to sell personal, identifying information about their customers. And this week, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia blocked a state law that would have banned search warrants for data collected by menstrual tracking apps.
California plans to manufacture insulin, directly taking on high prices for the diabetes drug. While other states have expressed interest in following suit, it will likely be up to wealthy, populous California to prove the concept.
I sent my daughter out of the country for college for this very reason.
She’s consistently telling me how “normal” and “authentic” she is finding her new friends and classmates. Except for most of her co-expats. They’re a bunch of “whiney spoiled brats”, according to her.
That has always been the case.
Great idea to make it popular and cool. < /sarc>
I’m not sure that giving an abortion pill to high school girls will cure their depression, but perhaps the Ukraine Supporters think otherwise, so I’ll wait before making a final judgment.
What does Ukraine supporters?
Sounds like a song by The Offspring. Their founder and lead vocalist has a PhD in molecular biology. Great 90s band.
Keep the kids off social media.
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