September 2024 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

30 Sep

IVF Restrictions, Demise of Roe v. Wade Could Endanger Women’s Health Research

BarbraLatest NewsIVF, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Science

Women are already underrepresented in clinical trials; the new abortion and IVF laws could make it worse.

30 Sep

Florida abortion law: vague, not scientifically defined, deadly

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Constitutional Amendment, Florida, Opinion, Reproductive rights, Vote

Commentary Think you should be able to choose whether to have that baby or not? Prefer not to die because you can’t get the right medical care? Unless citizens vote to change the Florida Constitution to enshrine reproductive rights, you must avoid this state as if it were an abusive ex. Florida is a danger to women. Amendment 4 would allow abortion up to viability. The existing limit is six weeks.

29 Sep

Women’s health advocates fear restricted abortion access in PA

PatLatest NewsEctopic Pregnancy, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights

Susie Blum Connors never considered the surgery that saved her life three times an abortion. That's because it wasn't. The 74-year-old Scranton woman had three life-threatening ectopic pregnancies treated with emergency procedures in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

28 Sep

Abortion, reproductive rights are economic issues

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Reproductive rights

In a recent television appearance, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer highlighted an all-too-often unrecognized reality: Reproductive rights are an economic issue — and not only for women.

28 Sep

In Russia, International Safe Abortion Day Is a Reminder of Reproductive Rights Backsliding

PatLatest NewsInternational, Reproductive rights, Russia

Women’s rights activists across the globe on Saturday marked International Safe Abortion Day. But for many in Russia, the occasion was a bitter reminder of how far the country’s government has backtracked on its once-liberal abortion policies, leaving thousands of women with increasingly limited access to safe, affordable and timely abortion care.

27 Sep

Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, OB-GYN, Post-Dobbs, Vote, Wisconsin

The Dobbs backlash could send an abortion provider to Congress.

27 Sep

‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’

AlanLatest NewsComstock law, Reproductive rights, Vote

Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past

26 Sep

Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Wisconsin

Dobbs backlash could send an abortion provider to Congress

26 Sep

Funds are cutting aid for women seeking abortions as costs rise

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Funds, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

Organizations that help pay abortion costs are capping how much they can help as travel costs rise and the wave of “rage giving” that fueled them two years ago has subsided.

25 Sep

Harris backs ending filibuster for abortion rights legislation

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Protections, Abortion Rights, Codify, Filibuster, Kamala Harris, Presidential campaign, Roe v Wade, Senate, United States

"Kamala Harris is calling for changes to Senate procedure to pass federal legislation protecting abortion rights. Harris voiced support for ending the 60-vote threshold needed to advance most legislation in the Senate, commonly known as the filibuster, during an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio that aired Tuesday...."

25 Sep

As Abortion Bans Spread, so Do Virtual Appointments

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Health care, Statistics, Telehealth, United States, Virtual appointments

According to NGO Society of Family Planning, the number of virtual-only abortion appointments has risen in the United States since the overturning of precedent Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court around two years ago. As providers needed time to gear up, appointments by clinics that do not offer in-person meetings of doctors and patients and instead sent an abortion pill via the mail began to become more common at around the one-year mark after states had been freed to pass their own abortion laws. In July of 2023, the advocacy group estimated that almost 13,700 such appointments took place, up from between 5,200…

24 Sep

Judge blocks Tennessee law that bans helping a minor get an abortion without parental consent

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Legislation, blocked law, Judge, Minors, Tennessee, travel ban, United States

“A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Tennessee’s so-called “abortion trafficking law,” which subjects adults who aid minors in getting an abortion without parental permission to criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits. In a lengthy opinion, U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger concluded the law is likely to be found to be an unconstitutional ban on protected speech about a procedure that, while largely banned in Tennessee, is legally available in other states….”

23 Sep

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights

BarbraLatest NewsAdolescent Healthcare, Reproductive rights, World Health Organization

Today's 1.3 billion adolescents are not only the largest age group but also the most diverse the world has ever seen. They face considerable challenges to their sexual and reproductive health and rights and progress is never fast enough.

23 Sep

She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story.

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, South Carolina

Charges predated SC’s 6-week abortion ban. Democrat solicitor said his office’s prosecution had ‘nothing to do with that.’

22 Sep

How promises of a ‘post-Roe future’ have fallen short

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a then-little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana introduced a short bill that proposed amending the Social Security Act to ensure child support payments be made for an “unborn child.”