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!

21 Jun

Care Not Control: Repression & Youth Resistance

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Privacy, Reproductive rights, teenagers, Youth

We are socialized to believe that laws, police, courts, child protective services, juvenile detention centers, and prisons protect us. But this same criminal legal system is often used to punish and instill fear in our communities—forcing us into restrictive gender and social rules. Today, surveillance systems are used to track youth. This isn’t meant to keep them safe. It is meant to mark them as the next target.

21 Jun

Idaho federal judge to decide on lawsuit seeking to increase medical abortion exemptions

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Idaho, Reproductive rights

An Idaho federal judge will weigh whether there are cases in which abortions could be allowed in health-threatening, but not fatal circumstances — a situation that is not explicitly protected under Idaho’s abortion ban.

20 Jun

Nevada’s Cortez Masto Leads Effort to Protect the Right of Women to Cross State Lines to Seek Abortion Care

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democrats, Female Democratic Congresspeople, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Dobbs decision, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) re-introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. This legislation would block anti-choice states and localities from limiting travel for abortion services and empower impacted individuals to bring civil action against those who restrict a woman’s right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care

20 Jun

Nine days in June

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, SCOTUS, United States

As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June 30, the court overruled Roe v. Wade, greatly expanded the scope of gun rights, dramatically weakened the wall separating church and state, and imposed a significant new limit on the power of federal administrative agencies.

19 Jun

With giant IUD outside Capitol, Arizona Democrats call on GOP to protect contraception access

MadisonLatest NewsArizona, Contraception, Democrats, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his Dobbs concurrence that the constitutional right to contraception should be reconsidered next

19 Jun

Wisconsin Democrats and advocates call for state birth control protections

MadisonLatest NewsContraception, Democrats, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights advocates called for state protection of birth control on the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that protected married couples’ ability to use contraception. State laws are necessary to protect Wisconsinites from potential actions by the Trump administration and the Supreme Court targeting access to birth control, they warned.

18 Jun

Trump Administration Wields New Threat to Reproductive Rights

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Blue State, Federal Funding, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, Weldon Amendment

Denied and Delayed Abortion Care Puts Health and Lives in US at Risk

18 Jun

What is Life Like for Disabled Women in Afghanistan?

MadisonLatest NewsFemale Health, Global, People With Disabilities

My name is Mehria. I am 16 years old and I live in northern Afghanistan. Since birth, I have had a disability in one of my legs, which becomes more apparent when I walk. My mother says my disability is congenital and cannot be cured with treatment.

17 Jun

Texas Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Moves To Force Vote To Guarantee the Right to Contraception

MadisonLatest Newsconception, Democratic, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) filed a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on her bill, the Right to Contraception Act, H.R. 999, to guarantee by law the right to contraception. A discharge petition is a legislative tool in the House of Representatives that allows a majority of members to force a bill to the floor for a vote by the full chamber, even if the Speaker of the House opposes it.

17 Jun

Black Women are not Okay: Why Resistance is the Solution

JordanLatest NewsBlack Women, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Resistance, United States, Women

Sometimes resistance is attending a protest, and sometimes it’s wearing our braids to work in defiance of white, eurocentric beauty standards that are enforced in our workplaces.

16 Jun

Trump admin paying thousands of dollars per month to store ruined USAID contraceptives

MorganLatest News

Millions of dollars’ worth of contraceptives meant to be distributed to low-income nations in Africa have expired, but the Trump administration is paying tens of thousands of dollars a month to keep them in storage in Belgium, according to a report from the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) inspector general.

16 Jun

Four years after the Dobbs decision, abortion access looks very different

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Red States, Trump Administration, United States

The Dobbs decision returned abortion policy to the states. Four years later, NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin examines how that promise has played out in practice.

16 Jun

Hormonal contraception and brain tumour risk: A summary for the public

ChaseLatest Newsbrain health, Contraception, Global, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Recent media coverage regarding hormonal contraception and the risk of meningioma, may understandably raise questions for women who are currently using or are considering hormonal contraceptive methods.

15 Jun

Women in Congress say a gender gap impedes sexual harassment probes

CoreyLatest NewsGender Gap, misogyny, United States, US Congress

The House Ethics Committee investigated Democratic Rep. Jim Costa of California in 2023 over allegations that he made inappropriate advances to two congressional interns. The panel voted against a formal probe, but the four women on the committee pushed to admonish Costa publicly.Ultimately, the majority-male committee never disclosed the investigation.

15 Jun

Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns FDA for Moving Ahead with “Sham” Review of Mifepristone

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Pills, FDA, GOP, mifepristone, Trump

New leadership at Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed that the agency is rushing through its politically motivated review of mifepristone ahead of critical midterm elections.