The Supreme Court and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act-A Dangerous Time for Us All.

This Viewpoint explores recent US Supreme Court decisions and how they threaten the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act and the health, safety, and rights of pregnant persons throughout the country.

Food and Drug Administration v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine-A Cautious Win for Reproductive Health Care and FDA Authority.

This Viewpoint discusses the recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing mifepristone­a drug used in medication abortion­to be widely available in the US, summarizes the history of challenges to the availability of mifepristone, and highlights reasons for concerns that remain after the Court's current ruling.

How Should State Licensing and Credentialing Boards Respond When Government Clinicians Spread False or Misleading Health Information?

The spread of health misinformation by health care professionals who also hold government positions represents a long-standing problem that intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes this problem and considers legal and other response strategies. State licensing and credentialing boards must use their authorities to discipline clinicians who spread misinformation and to reinforce the nature and scope of professional and ethical obligations of government and nongovernment clinicians. Individual clinicians must also play an important role by actively and vigorously correcting misinformation disseminated by other clinicians.

Lowering the Age of Consent: Pushing Back against the Anti-Vaccine Movement.

This article examines the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, the proliferation of laws allowing parental exemptions to mandatory school vaccines, and the impact of the movement on immunization rates for all vaccines. It uses the ongoing debate about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as an example to highlight the ripple effect and consequences of the anti-vaccine movement despite robust evidence of the vaccine's safety and efficacy. The article scrutinizes how state legislatures ironically promote vaccination while simultaneously deferring to the opposition by promulgating broad opt-outs from mandatory vaccine laws. This article concludes by offering an alternative legislative approach to specifically combat the anti-vaccine movement's impact on HPV vaccination rates. Lowering the age of consent has not been widely attempted or proposed and provides an alternative statutory mechanism to push back against vaccine resistance.