November 2025 – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

06 Nov

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers consider legal definition of abortion, separate from miscarriage care

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

GOP authors say it will clarify how providers should discuss procedures that are used both for abortions and for safely managing pregnancy loss or complications

06 Nov

What Tuesday’s elections mean for the future of abortion rights

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States, Voting

Supporters of abortion rights have spent much of the last year trying to fight Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine access to the procedure. Now, Democrats’ commanding victories in the 2025 elections have breathed new life into the fight.

05 Nov

The Way A Man Loses Weight Matters To His Fertility, Review Says

ChaseLatest NewsFertility, Healthcare, Men, Obesity, Reproductive rights

Losing weight is considered one way to improve male fertility, but how guys drop pounds also matters, a new evidence review says.

05 Nov

Contraceptive, Reproductive Health Counseling Crucial for Women With CKD (chronic kidney disease )

ChaseLatest NewsCKD, Contraception, Healthcare, Kidney Disease, Reproductive rights

There are key barriers to contraceptive use and reproductive health management in women with chronic kidney disease (CKD), wrote authors of research published in American Journal of Kidney Diseases. These barriers include provider discomfort because of limited training and exposure, lack of clear guidelines, and fragmented care, all of which can be addressed through preparation, education, and establishing a framework of care.1

04 Nov

Guttmacher Releases Most Comprehensive Evidence to Date on Global Family Planning Gaps, Investment and Economic Returns

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, International, Reproductive rights

Today the Guttmacher Institute unveiled findings from two groundbreaking research initiatives revealing the most comprehensive evidence to date of the transformative impact of family planning on women’s lives—underscoring the urgent need for sustained investment in global sexual and reproductive health. The new evidence has been released at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which kicked off today in Bogotá, Colombia. The two complementary studies—Adding It Up and FP-Impact—demonstrate that investing in comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care delivers immediate, life-saving benefits while simultaneously functioning as economic “seed funding” that expands national workforces and generates sustained economic returns.

04 Nov

Globally Around 224 million women still don’t access family planning

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, International, Reproductive rights

The increased use reflects a major health success that has allowed millions of young people to avoid unintended pregnancy and exercise choice over their futures, but UNFPA said that “for far too many, the basic human right to choose whether to have children continues to be undermined.”

03 Nov

Global Innovations for U.S. Reproductive Health Law and Policy

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

This initiative seeks to improve reproductive health outcomes in the United States through transnational law and policy experience-sharing.

03 Nov

Postpartum Psychosis: International Experts Seek to Save Lives of Mothers, Babies

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, International, Post partum Depression, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights

An international panel of leading women’s mental health experts – including UVA Health’s Jennifer Payne, MD – is calling to reclassify postpartum psychosis as its own category of mental illness to improve the care new mothers receive.

02 Nov

Tx Congresswoman Johnson Introduces the Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights Act of 2025

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Bill Backed by Congressional Reproductive Freedom Caucus, Planned Parenthood, and Leading Global Rights Advocates

02 Nov

The science of conception is clear

AlanLatest Newsconception, Healthcare, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, United States

Regarding the article “Abortion issue key in retention vote” (Oct. 26): Science is a prime value in American culture. At least a dozen embryology texts, dating from 1887 (Quimby, I.N. Address at the 38th Annual Meeting of the A.M.A.: ”the life of the foetus commences at the moment of conception”) to 1964 (Guttmacher, A.F. et al in “Planning Your Family,” p. 36: “Fertilization, then, has taken place; a baby has been conceived”) refer to fertilization as the beginning of a new life.

01 Nov

Biomedical innovations in contraception: gaps, obstacles, and solutions for sexual and reproductive health

RandyLatest NewsContraception, Diverse Populations, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Contraception and family planning are vital aspects of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Despite major advances in modern contraception over the past 60 years many gaps remain, and the rate of unplanned pregnancies and abortions remains high. These issues have given rise to a new era in contraception research with great opportunities and many challenges. These opportunities include new innovations, particularly in the areas of male contraception, non-hormonal female contraception, and multipurpose prevention methods that provide contraception in combination with protection against leading sexually transmitted pathogens; fast tracking new inventions currently in the pipeline by intensifying support from government,…

01 Nov

Too many rats? Birth control is one city’s answer

RandyLatest NewsContraception, Massachusetts, Rats

In Somerville, Massachusetts just outside of Boston, everyone has a horror story about the rats.

01 Nov

Global Movement for Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights Begins

RandyLatest NewsInternational, Reproductive rights, Sexual Health

The seventh International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) is taking place 1–6 November 2025 in the vibrant city of Bogotá, Colombia at the Ágora Bogotá Convention Center. ICFP 2025 will unite leaders, advocates, and innovators from across the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) community to exchange ideas, forge partnerships, and drive progress toward achieving and safeguarding SRHR for all.