Our Latest Updates – Archive

On Jan. 3, 2023, the FDA announced that certified pharmacies will be allowed to dispense the abortion medication mifepristone to people with a prescription, removing the requirement that only a healthcare provider may dispense the medication.

A handful of states updated their minimum wage rates resulting in 0 states with minimum wages below the federal $7.25/hr rate, 30 and DC above the federal rate, and 20 that default to the federal rate.

As of Jan. 1, 2023, when New York’s law went into effect, ten states have bans on animal testing for cosmetics.

ProCon’s examination of the path to citizenship debate now enjoys our updated format.

All of ProCon’s reliable, unbiased content about the medical aid in dying debate, now in our updated format. 

Our voting machines topic has been updated with the pros and cons you know and love from ProCon.

Outgoing Oregon Governor Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all death row inmates and instructed that the death chamber be dismantled. 

The medical marijuana legalization debate is now updated to ProCon’s top 3 pros and cons format, complete with a history of medical marijuana and all of the informative nonpartisan resources you’ve come to rely on ProCon for.

The milk consumption debate is now updated to ProCon’s top 3 pros and cons format, complete with a history of milk consumption and all of the informative nonpartisan resources you’ve come to rely on ProCon for.

Massachusetts voters approved a measure on Nov. 8, 2022, and Rhode Island lawmakers passed a measure in June 2022.

The two states join 19 other states and DC where the drug is legal for adult use.

Simona Halep, a two-time Grand Slam champion currently ranked #9, was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency on Oct. 21, 2022 following a positive test for roxadustat during the US Open. She faces up to a four-year ban from tennis.

According to The Sentencing Project, about 4.6 million Americans, or 2% of the US population, with felony convictions are unable to vote because of state restrictions on voting. 48 states have some sort of restriction on voting for those with felony convictions, with state-level disenfranchisement ranging from 0.15% in Massachusetts to more than 8% in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

In a 2022 report, the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute found that between 36 to 47 abortions were performed per 1,000 women (ages 15-49) yearly in countries where abortion is broadly legal. In countries where abortion is banned, between 31 and 51 abortions were performed per 1,000 women (ages 15-49) yearly.

During the 2022 fiscal year (Oct. 01, 2021 to Sep. 30, 2022), US Customs and Border Patrol apprehended a record 2.3 migrants at the southern US border, surpassing the 1.7 million apprehended in FY2021 by 37%.