2025 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

09 Mar

Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, FACE Act, GOP, Reproductive care, Reproductive rights, Trump

For more than 30 years, there has been a federal law on the books known as the FACE Act. It prohibits intentional interference with people either providing or receiving reproductive health care services, including abortions. Now the Justice Department says it is sharply scaling back enforcement of that law. NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas looked into what this means for people on both sides of the abortion issue.

08 Mar

International Women’s Day 2025. For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment – 8 March 2025

AlanLatest NewsInternational, International Women's Day

In 2025, the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the most comprehensive and visionary agenda for realizing women’s rights and building a more just and equal world. Over the past three decades, there has been remarkable progress: nearly every United Nations (UN) Member State has taken action to tackle violence against women and girls, narrow gaps in education and reduce maternal mortality. Legal reforms have dismantled discriminatory laws, institutions have been strengthened, and commitments deepened, with more countries than ever before enacting policies that support women’s visibility, opportunity and resilience whether through employment, social protection, or crisis…

07 Mar

Bill creating abortion grant fund for under- and uninsured gains momentum in House, Senate (Maryland)

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Maryland, Reproductive rights

Proposal would let Health Department tap underutilized insurance fund

06 Mar

GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions.

05 Mar

Women for Sale: What Anora’s Success Tells Us

ChaseLatest Newsmisogyny, Sexual Assault, Sexual violence, United States

While Anora is praised for inspiring an end to stigma, it actually reinforces the lack of empathy for what women suffer in all forms of sexual violence.

05 Mar

Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Trump’s Anti-Trans Healthcare Order

ChaseLatest NewsTrans Rights, United States

Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth, together with PFLAG National and GLMA, filed a federal legal challenge against a January 2025 executive order from the Trump administration directing federal agencies to withhold funds from medical providers and institutions that provide gender-affirming medical treatments for people under nineteen.

05 Mar

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.

04 Mar

New poll indicates abortion policy could affect employment decisions

RandyLatest NewsBrain Drain, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A state’s policies on reproductive issues, including abortion, are likely to affect where people decide to take a job or start a family, according to a poll released Monday, and no states with restrictive abortion policies had majority support from those polled.

03 Mar

Commentary: To truly protect abortion access, New York must invest in training

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Providers, Healthcare, New York, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

A growing shortage of trained providers affects not only other states, but many regions of New York, too.

02 Mar

Opinion: The cruel consequences of moving fast and breaking things

MauraLatest NewsHealthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022 is a case of an ill-considered decision backfiring spectacularly. Based on all available data, this decision has produced pretty much exactly the opposite of what supporters said they wanted to achieve. Since it went into effect, abortions in the U.S. have gone up, the fertility rate has declined to a historic low and the infant mortality rate has increased.

01 Mar

Researchers estimate 1 in 10 abortions provided by online-only clinics one year after Roe

MauraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In the first year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an estimated 1 in 10 abortions were provided by online-only clinics, according to new data released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that researches reproductive health and advocates for abortion access.

28 Feb

NJ Assemblyman Danielsen Introduces Legislation To Place Reproductive Rights on November Ballot

MauraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, New Jersey, United States

Legislation that would put a constitutional amendment to codify and protect reproductive rights in New Jersey on the ballot for this November’s election was introduced on Tuesday. Sponsored by Assemblyman Joe Danielsen in the Assembly, ACR-156 would enshrine the fundamental right to reproductive freedom in the State Constitution.

28 Feb

Planned Parenthood to restart regular abortion appointments in Columbia, Kansas City next week

MollyLatest News, United Statesabortion appointments, Abortion Clinic, elective abortion, Missouri, Planned Parenthood, United States

“Two of Missouri’s nine Planned Parenthood clinics are poised to start performing regularly-scheduled surgical abortions next week, though clinic leadership says access to medication abortions is in the hands of the state. The first elective abortion in Missouri since the procedure was banned in 2022 was performed earlier this month in a Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic. It will now be offering regular appointments for surgical abortions along with the clinic in Columbia, which has not offered the procedure since 2018….”

27 Feb

Anti-abortion advocates split over push to renew Missouri ban with rape, incest exceptions

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Missouri, Sexual Assault, United States

A Republican state senator and anti-abortion activists testified against a proposed abortion ban because they believe it doesn’t go far enough

26 Feb

Judge permanently blocks Ohio law on disposal of aborted fetal remains

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion, Healthcare, Ohio, United States

An Ohio law requiring fetal or embryonic remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried violates the constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights that the state's voters approved in 2023, a judge ruled in permanently blocking the law.