COVID-19 Has Killed More Than 7 Million People Since 2020
While COVID-19 has disappeared from front pages, the virus is still claiming thousands of lives each month. The WHO warns against complacency and urges continuation of vaccination
A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder
The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being…
There Can Be No Holidays During a Genocide, Health Activists Warn
By Peoples Health Dispatch “There is a real danger that when world leaders return from their Christmas holidays, there will be no health system left in Gaza,” warned Melanie Ward,…
Private Equity Is Using Prison Phone, Food and Health Systems to Rack Up Profits
Private equity firms are capturing systems people in prison use and making them even more brutal and unaccountable.
How Abortion Bans are Undercutting Efforts to Prevent Domestic Violence
OB-GYNs are often the first or only doctors to learn if a patient is facing intimate partner violence. As they leave places with abortion bans, domestic violence victims are feeling…
‘Can You Hear the Screams?’ Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals
"When are you going to stop this?" Dr. Mads Gilbert asked U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of European nations.
‘We Are Being Killed Here, Please Do Something’: Nurses and Doctors Plead for Gaza Cease-Fire
"We are nearly sure that we are alone now," said a Doctors Without Borders surgeon at Gaza's largest hospital. "No one hears us."
Abortion Pills Go Global
Regardless of the law, women can now access their own safe and effective abortion procedures in the form of these pills.
Abortion Rights Keep Winning, and Democrats See a Lesson For 2024
Election results in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky show the issue’s continued potency and give a boost to efforts to pass ballot measures in red and purple states next year.
Larry’s List: Israeli Leaders Propose Law for Revocation of Citizenship, Misguided Policy, Debunking Nasal Congestion and More
By SP Staff ScheerPost is bringing back Larry’s List, a daily news curation from USC communications professor Larry Gross, to keep you up to date with the most cutting edge…
The Battle for Virginia: Can the Last State in the South to Not Restrict Abortion Post-Roe Survive?
Millions of Americans’ ability to get an abortion hinges on Virginia’s Upcoming Election.
Dying Behind Bars — Another Form of Capital Punishment
The aging prison population has tripled in the past two decades. These facilities, which offer poor medical care and a stressful environment, are ill-equipped to handle their graying population.
Rep. Gwen Moore Introduces Resolution to Address the Relationship Between Firearm Violence, Misogyny and Violence Against Women
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, the Wisconsin congresswoman introduced a resolution calling attention to the 'relationship between firearm violence, misogyny, and…
Pregnancy Criminalization in the US Is an “Avoidable Human Rights Crisis”
“The United States is in the midst of a completely avoidable human rights crisis,” a new report states.
Mother Sues Alabama Jail After Being Forced to Give Birth Alone in a Shower
Alabama jailed Ashley Caswell on charges of endangering a fetus, then made her give birth without medical support.