June 2025 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

02 Jun

‘Care is resistance.’ Va. free health clinics strategize survival after state, federal funding cuts

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Richmond’s Health Brigade considers selling building to counter lost funding and keep offering services to uninsured or underinsured residents

02 Jun

Climate change is threatening the sexual health of young adolescents in Kenya

ChaseLatest NewsClimate Change, Healthcare, International, Kenya, Reproductive rights

Climate change is worsening sexual and reproductive health risks for young adolescents in Kenya, according to a recent study published in BMJ Global Health. Children aged 10 to 14 are facing rising threats as food, water, and sanitation insecurities contribute to sexual violence, transactional sex, and exploitative relationships − factors closely linked to unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

01 Jun

Ireland’s Minister for Health launches free Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Arrangement

RandyLatest NewsHRT, International, Ireland, Reproductive rights

The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has today launched the free Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Arrangement. The arrangement will see the women of Ireland receive HRT medicines/products free of charge at the point of dispensing from today (1 June 2025).

01 Jun

Union organizer fired at Pittsburgh’s East Liberty reproductive health center

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Unions

The movement to unionize workers at one of the region’s few abortion care providers took a dark turn last week when managers at Allegheny Reproductive Health Center in East Liberty fired one of the employees involved in the organizing effort and issued written reprimands to several others.