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!

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.

14 Jun

The Trump‑blocked contraceptives that never reached Kenya: “I am not ready to have another baby”

CoreyLatest NewsContraception, Global, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, USAID

The closure of USAID left millions of pills, IUDs and condoms destined for African countries held in a hangar in Belgium. EL PAÍS travels to Nairobi to speak with the women who were meant to receive them and were left without alternatives

14 Jun

Illinois Lawmakers pass bill to shield abortion information from digital medical records

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democratic Governor, Healthcare, Illinois, Reproductive Health Privacy Act, Reproductive rights, United States

Bills expanding privacy for abortion medical records and access to birth control services passed in the final days of the General Assembly’s spring session.

13 Jun

An Update on Medicaid, Title X and Planned Parenthood

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, United States

Planned Parenthood clinics comprise a substantial portion of the nation’s reproductive health safety net. In recent years, actions across multiple branches of government—including federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and state governments—have placed considerable financial pressure on the organization, with implications for patient access to care. This pressure has primarily focused on the two main sources of public funding for these clinics: the federal Title X family planning program and Medicaid. This brief focuses on the status of these efforts as they affect Planned Parenthood clinics since 2025.

13 Jun

Amid Cost-of-Living Crisis, House Republicans Jeopardize Health Care Coverage for Millions of Americans

ChaseLatest NewsAffordability, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation is an assault on education and job training, puts health coverage for millions of Americans at risk, and abandons ongoing public health crises.

12 Jun

US abortion restrictions are hindering access to miscarriage care, study finds

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Miscarriage, misogyny, Reproductive rights, United States

States with abortion bans are turning away from medications to a wait-and-see approach, with care falling below standards

12 Jun

Lawmakers back US bishops’ bid to block abortion from pregnant worker protection rules

ChaseLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Catholic Bishops, GOP, Men, Separation of Church and State

Fifty members of Congress offered their support to a lawsuit by the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference and other Catholic organizations seeking to block a federal agency from enforcing an abortion provision within a set of federal regulations meant to add workplace protections for pregnant workers.

11 Jun

Maryland codifies state-level emergency abortion access amid federal uncertainty

AlanLatest NewsAbortion, Abortion Rights, Democratic Governor, Healthcare, Maryland, Reproductive rights, United States

With Gov. Wes Moore’s signature , Maryland became one of the few states to enshrine a state-level version of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).

11 Jun

Messages of Misogyny on the Rise–and Boys are Listening

ChaseLatest NewsGlobal, males, misogyny, Reproductive rights, Violence Against Women

In the 1970s, the phrase “Our Bodies, Our Choice” emerged as a battle cry for women seeking to advance women’s reproductive rights. In this election year, the phrase has been perverted to “Your body, my choice” – a phrase now used to provoke men to take ownership of women’s bodies.