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Planned Parenthood is closing its clinics
Planned Parenthood affiliates in New York have announced, following political attacks on abortion access, that they will close clinics in Cobleskill, Amsterdam and Goshen. This decision follows news from their national federation encompassing over 600 clinics of an operating loss of $67 Million due to costs for providing birth control, STD testing and cancer screenings exceeding their reimbursement by private and public insurers.
Antiabortion lawmakers have proposed legislation that would strip Planned Parenthood of its funding and violent attacks against its clinics have intensified. Planned Parenthood serves people living in rural areas with low incomes who face barriers to health care access; its clinics serve such people.
Planned Parenthood of Michigan has experienced financial issues compounded by its state’s freeze on federal Title X funding. Furthermore, uncertainty exists due to Trump administration proposals to cut Medicaid coverage for low-income Americans.
An ice storm hit Northern Michigan
Michiganders are still dealing with the aftermath of an ice storm that hit northern counties of their state earlier this week, damaging roads, trees, power lines and leaving thousands without electricity in its wake. Furthermore, it impacted popular trail systems throughout Michigan’s northern counties.
While specific records for icing are being assessed, this year’s winter storm has already set numerous statewide records in terms of impact. It destroyed miles of trail and forced some of the region’s most beloved state parks to close down.
Mike Baker of Up North Energy Co-op likens the damage from Irene to that caused by Blizzard of 1978, with both him and Consumers Energy forecasting it could take days for residents to get power restored due to damaged lines that extend further up than just near roadside damage, being burdened by weight of frozen debris that prevents their restoration. Meanwhile, according to Baker residents should seek assistance at local warming centers.
A Guatemalan man is returning to the U.S.
Guatemalans have kept each other from despair by banding together for support during times of hardship. Cooking together, watching over each other’s children and sharing field work duties are just a few ways they are providing mutual aid despite war or violence leaving bodies scattered across rural communities.
Yet many of those who fled their homes this year face the risk of being deported due to an agreement between the U.S. and Guatemala known as Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA).
The American Consitituent Act allows the US government to quickly expel Central Americans back to their home countries without giving them asylum in America, yet the Trump administration seems intent on breaking this agreement. A federal judge recently ordered Trump’s administration to facilitate the return of an individual who claimed he’d been raped and held for ransom in Mexico.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man
A federal judge, named Murphy, has ordered the Trump administration to expedite the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland who it unlawfully sent back to Guatemala. Murphy believes it would not compromise national security if returning him back home was costly or burdensome.
He entered the United States via Mexico in 2024, and an immigration judge granted him protection from being sent back home due to fear of persecution for being sexual. But two days after being given such humanitarian protection, immigration officials put him on a bus and sent him back to Mexico where he claims that he was then raped and held for ransom.
That case marks just one more example of a judge criticizing the Trump administration for improperly deporting people under its hardline immigration policy, with government acknowledging an error and seeking to rectify it – though whether or not that happens remains unknown.