2025 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

31 Dec

Trump Admin Proposes Gender-Affirming Care Bans

DoryLatest Newsgender affirming care, Gender affirming Care ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trans Rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Trump Administration released two proposed rules intentionally designed to make gender affirming care for young people impossible to access. In one rule, federal Medicaid reimbursement is banned for medical care provided to transgender patients under 18 and prohibits reimbursements through CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) for transgender patients under 19. In the other rule, the administration is planning to block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for services at hospitals that provide gender affirming to young people.

31 Dec

EPA, states could consider regulating abortion pills

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, EPA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills.

30 Dec

Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill

DoryLatest NewsFertility, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, military, Reproductive rights, United States

More than eight years after my failed IUI, as federal employees have seen an expansion in their fertility benefits, TRICARE still doesn’t offer fertility coverage. A couple of weeks ago, it really looked like it would, which is why as we ring in 2026, I am thinking of the military families struggling to have a baby, for whom this new year will be off to a bitter start. They were banking on a provision in the massive defense bill signed into law by President Donald Trump just before the holidays that would have given them the same kind of access to fertility…

29 Dec

Aetna to Cover Fertility Care for Same-Sex Couples NationwidePregnancy

DoryLatest NewsFertility, Healthcare, Insurance, LGBTQ2S+, Reproductive rights, United States

For years, many same-sex couples have had to pay tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket to try to have children, even when their insurance covered fertility care for straight couples.

28 Dec

Gaza health chief warns of population crisis amid targeted attacks on fertility centers

RandyLatest NewsFertility, Gaza, Global, Reproductive rights

Munir Al-Barsh, Director-General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, has revealed that monthly births have plummeted by 40 percent over the past year, dropping from 26,000 to just 17,000, disclosing that fertility and IVF centers have been directly targeted by Israeli forces.

27 Dec

2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.

26 Dec

Trump Administration Quietly Bans Abortions for Veterans—Even After Rape or When Health is in Danger

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Sexual Assault, Trump, United States, Veterans

The Trump Administration has confirmed it is no longer providing abortion care for veterans relying on VA health care even in instances of rape, incest, or to save the health of the pregnant person. While veterans and their family members were previously able to to access abortion care in these specific circumstances, this new policy offers only a narrow and vague exception to save the life of a pregnant veteran or their family member. These kinds of exceptions to save a person’s life often don’t work in reality.

25 Dec

19 states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care

PhoenixLatest NewsHealthcare, litigation, transgender health care, United States

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.

24 Dec

Proposed HHS rule on gender-affirming care radically expands use of Medicare, Medicaid as policy weapons

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, transgender health care, Trump Administration, United States

Last Thursday, the Trump administration released a proposed rule prohibiting hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding from providing any gender affirming care to minors, even when privately funded.

24 Dec

A Very Bad Year for Women’s Health

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, Women's Health

A year’s worth of reporting on the depth of damage this administration has wreaked on women’s health.

23 Dec

How testosterone fell out of favor in medicine — and how it came back

PhoenixLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Testosterone, United States

The first thing Abraham Morgentaler learned about testosterone is that it’s a brain hormone. It was in a lab at Harvard, while an undergraduate in the late 1970s, where he had this realization: A castrated male lizard put in a cage with a female would not perform its mating ritual and would be uninterested in the female; but the same lizard, dosed with testosterone in the areas of the brain sensitive to testosterone, would — its dewlap coming out, head bobbing.

23 Dec

Commentary

PhoenixLatest NewsFertility, Healthcare, IVF, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States, Virginia

Virginia helped pioneer IVF. It’s time to lead again Forty-four years ago on Dec. 28, my mother gave birth to me, the first baby in the U.S. conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). I exist because of science, and most importantly, because my parents had access to this groundbreaking new healthcare in Virginia.

22 Dec

Opinion – Telemedicine abortion is winning — and that terrifies the right

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

The year’s headlines were consumed by doom and gloom coverage. From hits against Planned Parenthood to increasingly restrictive anti-abortion laws passing in red states, and threats to proven-safe abortion medications, the post-Roe landscape certainly appeared bleak.

22 Dec

Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world

CoreyLatest Newschildbirth, Gaza, Global, Healthcare, Maternal and Child Health, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, Ukraine

Thirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre began. Some had just given birth and others were still in labour.

Year: 2025

Trump Admin Proposes Gender-Affirming Care Bans

EPA, states could consider regulating abortion pills

Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill

Top 5 contraception articles of 2025

Aetna to Cover Fertility Care for Same-Sex Couples NationwidePregnancy

Gaza health chief warns of population crisis amid targeted attacks on fertility centers

2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

Trump Administration Quietly Bans Abortions for Veterans—Even After Rape or When Health is in Danger

19 states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care

Proposed HHS rule on gender-affirming care radically expands use of Medicare, Medicaid as policy weapons

A Very Bad Year for Women’s Health

How testosterone fell out of favor in medicine — and how it came back

Commentary

Opinion – Telemedicine abortion is winning — and that terrifies the right

Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world