The FDA and CDC authorized Pfizer vaccine boosters for people over the age of 65 immunocompromised

people and those with higher risk of exposure to COVID-19.

In good news, new modeling suggests that COVID cases may steadily decline through March.

A new battle is brewing over how the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation deal, if they can

pass it, may change healthcare, with Democrats fighting over whether it should expand Medicare

or shore up the Affordable Care Act.

This is America Disector. I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alseh.

Last week, Dr. Alan Brade performed a medical procedure for a woman who had requested it and

given her consent. That, a doctor caring for a patient who requested it, shouldn't be news.

But here we are. First lawsuits have now been filed under Texas' new heartbeat act.

The suits filed against a San Antonio doctor who admittedly kept providing abortions past the

sixth week of pregnancy, not allowed under the new law. Dr. Brade performed in abortion.

A new Texas law bans abortions after six weeks when most people don't even know their pregnant.

Dr. Baird now faces lawsuits for performing a constitutionally protected procedure.

In medical school, I got to spend a Saturday morning at a Planned Parenthood Clinic.

There, I spent the morning with a young woman who was making a choice about whether or not to

abort an early pregnancy. What I came to understand is that it's never an easy decision,

and it should never be a decision made by anyone but a pregnant person and their doctor.

The other thing I learned is that an abortion isn't an abstract thing. Something to be discussed

in theory. It's extremely personal. That's because pregnancy and childbirth are anything but

abstract things. Ask anyone who's ever been pregnant. It's a 40-week journey that fundamentally

transforms someone's body and someone's life. In fact, pregnancy is one of the most dangerous

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