REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS – Updated daily. A service of Toby's Fund for Reproductive Health Equity

17 Apr

Hello Visitors! Welcome to REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS.

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Welcome to RRA! Get all of your latest reproductive news here from a variety of news outlets. We started this website in order to help those who care about reproductive rights stay informed, stay educated, and stay updated!This website is run entirely by volunteers, and sponsored by Toby's Fund for Reproductive Health Equity! It's over 1 year since we started! The Fight CONTINUES! We start to understand the war on reproductive rights. We start to continue our community of people who wish fairness; We start to coalesce on strategies to bring humanity back to the United States!

04 Apr

Why millions of Americans could lose birth control access under Trump

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, Underserved

The Trump administration delayed Title X funding for reproductive care clinics that serve uninsured and low-income Americans.

04 Apr

Federal funding for reproductive health care could lapse Wednesday due to Trump administration delays

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration, United States

Some clinics that rely on Title X grants to provide birth control, cancer screenings and STI testing are making contingency plans as the government appears likely to miss its deadline.

04 Apr

Alaskan Lawmakers again seek to ease access to yearlong birth control supply after Dunleavy veto

RileyLatest NewsAlaska, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Lawmakers are again taking up legislation that would require insurance companies to fulfill prescriptions for a year’s supply of birth control, after Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a similar bill in 2024.

03 Apr

Virginia lawmakers send contraception-access bills to governor’s desk

PhoenixLatest NewsBlue State, Contraception, Democratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Measures would expand insurance coverage and create a state-level right as federal policy remains in flux.

03 Apr

VG Democratic Governor Spanberger weighs contraception rights bill ahead of November reproductive rights amendment vote

RandyLatest NewsDemocratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

With hundreds of bills awaiting action, Gov. Abigail Spanberger is weighing legislation tied to reproductive rights, including a measure that involves reproductive rights.

02 Apr

More Than 90% of Patients Are Women: Is this Why This Cardiovascular Disease Is Overlooked?

RileyLatest NewsFemale Health, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Decades of neglect have left clinicians and researchers with an incomplete understanding of the unique features and risk factors that drive cardiovascular disease in women, including FMD.

02 Apr

States with abortion bans target pills sent by out-of-state providers

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, mifepristone, Red States, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

As states that already ban abortion look to further restrict access this year, much of the focus is on pills sent by out-of-state providers.

01 Apr

Heated Rivalries: Conservatives vs. Choice

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Whether the momfluencers intend to or not, they are part of a larger propaganda machine that’s working to socialize Christian nationalism and far-right ideology, baking it into the minds of young people, one loaf at a time.

01 Apr

Family Planning Clinics Brace for Gap in Federal Grant Funding

RandyLatest NewsFamily planning, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration, United States

"Family planning clinics that receive federal funds face a nearly impossible timeline to secure their next batch of grants at a time when many of these providers are already struggling to stay afloat

31 Mar

Birth Control is Essential Healthcare, but It’s Now Under Attack

RileyLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Reproductive health and reproductive freedom go hand in hand.

31 Mar

Community experiences in adapting to climate change for sexual and reproductive health and rights

AlanLatest NewsClimate Change, Global, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Sexual Health

Climate change is one of the most serious threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Its effects on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are wide-ranging – from adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes linked to extreme heat and flooding, to increased incidence of gender-based violence in the aftermath of climate shocks, to disrupted access to contraceptive and abortion care when health systems are overwhelmed. A WHO/HRP scoping review confirmed the breadth of these associations while also documenting critical evidence gaps, particularly for abortion care, contraception and broader sexual health issues. Evidence is especially sparse for studies applying an…

31 Mar

Number of abortions holds steady despite state bans and restrictions

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A new report found those efforts haven’t worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn’t budged. A key way that abortions are now happening despite all of the state restrictions is through telemedicine. At the same time, some states passed shield laws, which protect health care providers from legal risks when they prescribe to patients in states with bans.

30 Mar

Dem Women’s Caucus & Reproductive Freedom Caucus Urge HHS to Fund Title X Grants to Protect Critical Reproductive Care After Significant Delay

AlanLatest NewsDemocratic Women's Caucus, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Whip Nikema Williams (GA-05), Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Vice Chair Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), DWC Reproductive Health Care Task Force and Liaison Judy Chu (CA-28), and DWC & RFC members Sharice Davids (KS-03) and Dina Titus (NV-01) led 128 Members of the DWC and RFC in a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy urging him to extend Title X grants that provide critical family planning funding to health care centers across the country after HHS failed to provide guidance for months. Title X-funded health centers are lifelines in their communities, providing…

30 Mar

How One Bold Idea for Birth Control Became a National Lifeline

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, leaders across local Planned Parenthood health clinics saw a crisis coming and needed a solution if they were to continue providing birth control to their patients.

29 Mar

Red states move to protect crisis pregnancy centers using model legislation

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Crisis Pregnancy Center, GOP, Healthcare, Red States, Reproductive rights, United States

Conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing legislation drafted by an advocacy group that opposes abortion to increase protections for crisis pregnancy centers, organizations that provide some health-related services but also work to dissuade women from having abortions.