While you were weekending

🏛️ Texas' Supreme Court upheld a state law barring doctors from prescribing gender-affirming care to transgender minors. (Texas Tribune)

❌ The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the state's six-week abortion ban could be enforced, sharply limiting access to the procedure. (NYT)

🥼 Optum called off a plan to acquire financially troubled Steward Health Care's 1,700-physician group. (Becker's ASC Review)

👀 Could the effects of cold medicines explain President Biden's jumbled debate performance? (Newsweek)