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Chief Nurse Executive Danielle Maness stands in an empty examination room that was used to perform abortions at the Women's Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston, W.Va., June 29, 2022. A new abortion provider, the Women’s Health Center of Maryland, is opening this year in the Democratic-controlled state — just across from deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, File)

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New Maryland provider opening in post-Roe 'abortion desert'
By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press
Mon,03/27/23-7:12AM , 1,406 Reads
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new abortion provider is opening this year in Democratic-controlled Maryland — just across from deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban.
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Protestors hold signs during a rally opposing HB2007 at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on March 9, 2023. HB2007 would ban health care for trans children in the state. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson)

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West Virginia GOP Legislature passes transgender care ban
By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press
Sat,03/11/23-3:30PM , 487 Reads
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other in the nation, is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
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Protestors hold signs during a rally opposing HB2007 at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on March 9, 2023. HB2007 would ban health care for trans children in the state. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson)

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WV Senate joins GOP effort to limit trans youth health care
By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press
Fri,03/10/23-10:53PM , 1,054 Reads
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for mental health.
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West Virginia University students El Didden, Bri Caison and Lia Farrell hold materials from the Rainbow Coats on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in Morgantown, W.Va. (AP Photo/Kathleen Batten)

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Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia transgender-health clinic
By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press
Thu,03/09/23-9:10AM , 3,296 Reads
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The tiny clinic where physicians prescribe hormones and other medications to transgender teenagers shares the same campus where West Virginia kids travel to receive treatments for rare cancer, heart surgery and other health care difficult to get anywhere else.
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