August 2025 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

23 Aug

This ‘natural’ infertility treatment is backed by Maha. Is it the right’s path to limiting IVF?

RandyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, IVF, Reproductive rights, United States

Conservatives are promoting ‘restorative reproductive medicine’ instead of Trump’s promise to support IVF. Doctors are worried.

23 Aug

Planned Parenthood bets on redistricting to push back against GOP funding cuts

RandyLatest NewsCalifornia, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Redistricting, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion rights groups are backing California Democrats in the escalating battle to redraw congressional maps, warning that Republicans are rigging seats on the heels of deeply unpopular cuts to safety net health programs and restrictions on reproductive care.

22 Aug

Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or ‘gender ideology extremism’

RandyLatest Newsgender affirming care, Healthcare, NIH, SCOTUS

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to cut off health research grants it contends advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts or promote “gender ideology extremism.”

22 Aug

Atrium Health (NC) halts gender-affirming care for patients under age 19, leaving some families scrambling

RandyLatest NewsHealthcare, North Carolina, Reproductive rights, Transgender, transgender health care

The state’s largest health system says federal pressure influenced its decision. Families and advocates say the move is devastating for transgender kids.

21 Aug

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies

RileyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, RFK Jr., Trump Administration, United States

When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to federal health agencies earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was getting rid of excess administrators who were larding the government with bureaucratic bloat.

21 Aug

Women in states with abortion bans are the biggest users of abortion telemedicine

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Pills, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

As conservative lawmakers work to restrict online access to abortion medication, a new report shows how popular it has become for women who live in states that have outlawed abortion.

20 Aug

Planned Parenthood Bets on Redistricting To Push Back Against GOP Funding Cuts

RileyLatest NewsGerrymandering, GOP, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights

Abortion rights groups are backing California Democrats in the escalating battle to redraw congressional maps, warning that Republicans are rigging seats on the heels of deeply unpopular cuts to safety net health programs and restrictions on reproductive care.

19 Aug

New poll shows Spanberger ahead, but Earle-Sears closes gap

DoryLatest NewsDemocratic, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Democrat Abigail Spanberger holds a 7-point lead over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears in the race for Virginia governor, according to a new Roanoke College Poll that shows the contest tightening since the spring.

19 Aug

Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, West Virgina

Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks. Mayday Health, a New York-based health education nonprofit, will run the ads at 104 rural gas stations through Sept. 7. The campaign started Aug. 11.

18 Aug

Virginia abortion funds see sharp uptick in patients both in and out of state

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Funding, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Virginia-based abortion funds are citing an increased uptick in calls to their intake lines, as more people rely on their assistance to help cover the cost and sometimes travel expenses to get abortions. Since federal protections were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court three summers ago, various states have enacted restrictions or near-total bans on the procedure. With Virginia the least-restrictive southern state, several funds here told the Virginia Mercury in interviews they’re seeing a spike in assistance requests.

18 Aug

The VA Wants To End Coverage of Abortion for U.S. Military Veterans

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, U.S. Military, Veterans

President Donald Trump’s administration is calling to remove abortion coverage from the list of medical benefits for veterans and their families, saying it’s not needed.

17 Aug

Minors’ Ability to Consent to Contraception and Abortion Services

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, Healthcare, Minors, Parental consent, Reproductive rights, United States

Across the country, minors’ ability to consent to their health care, particularly their reproductive health care, varies significantly. Expanding “parental rights’ in health and education has been a priority for politically conservative groups and was outlined as a “top-tier” right by the Heritage Foundation in Project 2025. While parental involvement in health care can facilitate access and improve outcomes, it is not always possible for teens to include parents in decisions about sensitive health care decisions. Some teens, particularly those who have unstable home lives, are in foster care, or fear abuse if their parents were to become aware they are seeking…

17 Aug

Six Months In: How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Globally

ChaseLatest NewsGlobal, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has undertaken a sweeping and ideologically driven rollback of human rights protections, with particularly grave consequences for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally. The administration has drastically cut funding to international health programs, withdrawn from key multilateral institutions and agreements, and advanced an agenda that is overtly opposed to human rights, particularly those advancing gender and reproductive autonomy. These actions not only threaten access to essential health services for millions of people—particularly in low- and middle-income countries—but also undermine international cooperation and accountability in advancing the rights and health of women, girls…

15 Aug

Planned Parenthood role as Indiana Medicaid provider at risk as AG strikes at decade-old injunction

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

The state cited a SCOTUS switch-up in arguing it should be able to enforce a 2011 law.

15 Aug

Judge sides with NJ, strikes down Trump rules in Obamacare contraception case

ChaseLatest NewsACA, Contraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

A federal judge this week sided with New Jersey and Pennsylvania by striking down Trump administration regulations that allowed employers citing religious or moral grounds to opt out of contraceptive mandates under the Affordable Care Act.