FIRST ON FOX: A pro-life medical group is urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reverse course on a recently passed state law that shields the identities of healthcare providers who prescribe and mail the abortion pill mifepristone.

In a letter to Hochul on Wednesday, the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG) said the law "recklessly endangers" patients who cannot follow up with their provider in the case of complications.

"Concealing doctors’ identity recklessly endangers the patients we’re meant to serve," the group wrote. "It compounds the risks of telehealth prescription of mifepristone without in-person consultations, and the barriers it creates to identifying prescribing physicians could mean the difference between life and death for patients."

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Contact with the prescribing physician is an essential component of any follow-up care, the OBGYNs wrote, "which is so common and necessary with mifepristone that it was required as part of the original FDA approval." 

"Many irresponsibly understate the risks of drug-induced abortions, but the dangers for women who take it are all too real," the group wrote.

The group appealed for reconsidering the law, stating, "This new law makes doctors less accessible to the patients they’re serving" and "erects hurdles for patients with follow-up questions." They also warned it could introduce "time-consuming and potentially fatal roadblocks" to consultations in cases of complications.

Mifepristone, the most commonly used medication for medical abortions for up to 10 weeks gestation, is the first combination of an oral abortion. A second medication, misoprostol, is usually taken 24 to 48 hours later to expel the fetus. A dozen states have passed laws in the last year to restrict access to abortion pills.

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"Women taking the drug may require transfusion, develop sepsis, or need surgery to complete their abortion," the OBGYNs wrote. 

"The rate of complication for drug-induced abortion is four times higher than for surgical abortions. In fact, 2.9-4.6 percent of patients taking the drug will need to be seen in the emergency room, as happened in the case of the Louisiana patient reported days before New York enacted its legislation."

AAPLOG Action Executive Director Rebecca Weaver told Fox News Digital the law is "essentially allowing pro- abortion states to override the pro-life states …  and allowing the mailing of the abortion drugs."

"It's kind of overriding and undercutting what Dobbs was prescribing to move forward after the overturning of Roe," Weaver said. 

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Hochul signed the legislation into law in early February following the indictment of New York physician Margaret Carpenter, her company and an associate by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. They were accused of using telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills to a minor who suffered complications.

The New York law, effective immediately, allows providers' names to be omitted from abortion pill packaging and bottles and instead replaced with the name of their healthcare practice. 

Louisiana authorities discovered the doctor's identity after it was found on the abortion pill label.

"After today, that will no longer happen," Hochul said at the bill signing.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Hochul's office for comment.

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• Ukraine's prime minister said Wednesday that Ukraine and the US had agreed on a mineral deal.
• Denys Shmyhal said they planned to set up an investment fund based on Ukraine's mineral wealth.
• Discussions about Ukraine's minerals have been a source of tension between the two countries' leadership.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday that his country and the US had agreed on a major deal for Ukraine's minerals.

While the full terms of the deal haven't been made public, Shmyhal told Ukrainian TV that the two countries plan to set up an investment fund based on much of Ukraine's mineral wealth, the BBC reported.

Kyiv and Washington will manage it on equal terms, he added.

Shmyhal also said Ukraine will contribute 50% of future revenues from its mineral and metal extraction into the fund, which will go toward the country's reconstruction, according to Ukrainian state broadcaster Suspilne.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to reporter questions about the proposed agreement, details of which were first reported by the Financial Times,

He said he believed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to visit the US to formalize a deal on Friday. "I understand that's a big deal, a very big deal," he added.

Ukraine has significant deposits of valuable minerals, including uranium, titanium, and lithium — the last being a key component in batteries relied on by the EV industry. It also has considerable oil and gas fields.

The draft deal, seen by the FT, reportedly does not include mineral resources already being extracted by the likes of oil and gas producers Naftogaz and Ukrnafta.

The extent of the US' holding in the project remains undefined, the FT reported.

The Ukrainian government and various ministries did not respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.

The Ukrainian minister who led the negotiations, Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, told the FT on Tuesday that the agreement is "only part of the picture."

"We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it's part of a bigger picture," she added.

On Monday, Stefanishyna wrote on X that Ukrainian and US teams were "in the final stages of negotiations regarding the minerals agreement."

She added: "The negotiations have been very constructive, with nearly all key details finalized. We are committed to completing this swiftly to proceed with its signature. We hope both US and UA leaders might sign and endorse it in Washington the soonest to showcase our commitment for decades to come."

Trump said Tuesday that through the deal "the American taxpayer now is going to get their money back plus," without offering specifics.

"It could be a trillion-dollar deal," he said.

Asked what Ukraine gets, Trump said: "The right to fight on."

Both Ukraine and the US have dropped key demands that were earlier being discussed, the FT reported.

The US will no longer demand $500 billion in revenue from the resources extracted, while Ukraine will no longer demand security guarantees in return.

However, Shmyhal said Wednesday that the deal is "directly tied" to security guarantees, according to Euromaidan Press.

The reported deal would be a notable step in recent relations between Trump and Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy refused earlier proposed terms that would have seen Ukraine send the US up to $500 billion in proceeds from its minerals, while Trump has called the Ukrainian president a "dictator."

• Rune, a defense tech startup, raised $6.2 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
• Founded by former Anduril employees, Rune develops software to manage military field logistics.
• Investors are increasingly backing defense tech startups to modernize military capabilities.

Rune, a defense tech startup based in Roslyn, Va., emerged from stealth Wednesday with $6.2 million in seed funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Point72 Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, and several defense industry executives, including Anduril's senior VP of software engineering Gokul Subramanian, participated.

Founded in 2024 by former Anduril employees David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough, Rune is developing software to help the military manage field logistics. The current process of deciding whether a particular unit needs more food, fuel, or ammunition is "almost entirely a manual, human-centric process" that "runs off Excel spreadsheets," Tuttle, cofounder and CEO of Rune, told Business Insider.

TyrOS, Rune's software named after the Norse god of war Tyr, gathers data manually tabulated by frontline units. It then autonomously tracks supplies such as food or equipment, predicts future resupply needs, and helps the military determine when and where to restock, especially for resource—and location-constrained environments. An AI model that Rune is currently building enables its predictive modeling capabilities, but the company is also having initial conversations with "larger AI providers" to explore potential partnerships, Tuttle said.

The 11-person company has developed a prototype of the software, which "has already been in the hands of actual warfighters" in training exercises, Tuttle said. While Rune's software currently relies on manual data entry, TyrOS can integrate with government-owned software to automate logistics data collection, a capability that could become increasingly standard as other defense tech companies develop such technologies.

While several companies manage commercial logistics, TyrOS is built for the unique challenges of military operations. Rune is developing the software to work in areas with limited or disrupted communication, known as DDIL environments. It also enables military units to share data with each other, ensuring connectivity even if one unit's connection is compromised.

In recent years, investors in Silicon Valley have increasingly doubled down on defense tech startups, reflecting a growing commitment to companies hoping to strengthen national security and modernize military capabilities. "What we're seeing is a moment in time where technology can shift the balance between countries," Chris Morales, a partner at Point72 Ventures who also served in the US Navy for eight years, said. "And we're seeing teams that can actually take advantage of the moment."

Defense contractors and startups are also building in the military logistics space. Lockheed Martin, for example, develops battle management and equipment logistics software. Adyton, another startup, is working on mobile tools to streamline communication about equipment and other needs across the military.

Before cofounding Rune, Tuttle led the command and control hardware business at Andruil, where he met cofounder and CTO Peter Goldsborough. Tuttle previously worked at the Joint Special Operations Command, a special missions unit, and in investment banking at Citi. He also served as a field artillery officer in the US Army.

Goldsborough also worked in command and control at Anduril, where he was a chief engineer.

"We spent a lot of time on what we say, how do you fight the force?" Tuttle said. "But equally important and more so, even now is, how do you sustain the force? How do you keep the force fighting past the first day, two days — past the first 72 hours in an actual conflict?"

Almost a year into building the company, the cofounders will use Rune's new funding to continue building out its engineering, business development, and product teams, Tuttle said.

"July Fourth was actually our first official day as Rune employees, which is pretty cool," Tuttle said. "We've been off to the races since."

• Charta Health just raised an $8.1 million seed round from Bain Capital Ventures.
• Charta's founders left Rockset, which OpenAI acquired last year, to start the healthcare AI company.
• The startup, which uses AI to review patient charts, got $500,000 in contracts within 60 days.

Justin Liu and Scott Morris didn't have any healthcare experience when they left Rockset, the AI infrastructure startup that OpenAI acquired in June. This month, they're announcing an $8.1 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures for their new healthcare AI startup, the company told Business Insider exclusively.

Liu and Morris left Rockset in 2023 to dig deeper into healthcare, the industry in which they felt the tech could make the biggest impact. The two spent a year getting their medical coding credentials and interviewing over 100 healthcare professionals to figure out what healthcare technologies were worth building.

That exploration turned into Charta Health, which is using AI to automate patient chart reviews to help providers capture more revenue and reduce their administrative burdens.

Providers have to review patient charts to make decisions about patient care and select the right medical codes for billing. However, manual chart reviews can be time-consuming, potentially reducing the amount of time providers can spend with their patients and driving up costs.

Charta Health's AI automates that review process for a range of tasks, including helping to identify missed codes to increase provider revenue, flagging potential issues before billing to prevent claims denials, and ensuring the charts comply with payers' complex documentation requirements.

Charta began its outreach to potential clients through a series of cold emails. Within 60 days, those emails landed the startup $500,000 in revenue — all before Charta launched from stealth in June 2024.

That initial traction quickly brought Charta to profitability, leading Liu and Morris to reevaluate their strategy and pursue venture funding to focus on growth instead of sustaining early profits. "We didn't realize just how big of an opportunity this was going to be," Liu said.

SV Angel, South Park Commons, SpringRock Ventures, Refract Ventures, and strategic angel investors contributed to Charta's Bain-led seed round. The startup also hired Dr. Caesar Djavaherian, cofounder and chief clinical innovation officer of healthcare clinic startup Carbon Health, as its chief medical officer.

Healthcare executives and investors have been clamoring for AI-powered solutions to automate administrative tasks in healthcare as the industry struggles with a staffing crisis and low hospital margins. Dozens of startups have grabbed funding to address various tasks in that bucket, like CodaMetrix, which raised a $40 million Series B in March to analyze clinical notes and derive medical codes for billing and claims using AI.

Liu said Charta sets itself apart by offering solutions for a broad variety of use cases and personalizing the platform to its clients' needs. He said almost all of Charta's clients use the company's tech for multiple tasks related to patient chart reviews.

"Ultimately, the vision here is that we will create this layer that allows you to perform these chart reviews for any kind of use case at any point inside the revenue or care cycle," Liu said.

The startup typically works with high-volume, low-reimbursement specialties like primary care, urgent care, and behavioral healthcare. Charta Health focuses on outpatient settings, setting it apart further from healthcare AI startups like SmarterDx, which uses AI to analyze patient charts for inpatient care.

Liu said Charta plans to use most of the seed funding to build out its sales team to land more contracts, as well as for product expansion as the company looks to tackle more use cases for chart reviews in different specialties.

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