December 2025 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.

21 Dec

How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Far Right Agenda, Healthcare, Project 2025, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government. As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document’s 920 pages.

21 Dec

HHS Acts to Bar Hospitals from Performing Sex-Rejecting Procedures on Children

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Transgender Rights, Trump, United States

he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a series of proposed regulatory actions to carry out President Trump’s Executive Order directing HHS to end the practice of sex-rejecting procedures on children that expose young people to irreversible harm. These procedures include pharmaceutical or surgical interventions of specified types that attempt to align a child’s physical appearance or body with an asserted identity different from their sex.

20 Dec

Abortion Access in Los Angeles Managed Medicaid Networks

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, California, Healthcare, Los Angeles, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion Access in Los Angeles Managed Medicaid Networks

19 Dec

Moments of hope in a year of turmoil

ChaseLatest News2025, DoctorsWithoutBorders, Global, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Trump Administration

Cuts to humanitarian aid funding by the US government and other international donors disrupted care and key programs safeguarding the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, while conflicts, natural disasters, and climate-related events continued to put communities at risk. But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responded to many of these crises, they also bore witness to moments of hope shining a light on the prevailing human spirit in moments of adversity.

19 Dec

UNAIDS urges Kazakhstan to protect public health

ChaseLatest NewsGlobal, Healthcare, LGBTQIA+, Reproductive rights

UNAIDS notes with concern the adoption of the bill banning so-called LGBTQ “propaganda” in Kazakhstan. While the stated objective of the legislation is the protection of children and traditional values, it may inadvertently restrict access to critical public health information and services, affecting the country’s efforts to end AIDS by 2030.

18 Dec

Lawmakers vow to improve care for pregnant women in jails

AlanLatest NewsDemocrats, Healthcare, Incarceration, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, United States

Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News investigation.

18 Dec

We Care: building evidence for safer abortion services

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Global, Reproductive rights, WHO

Expanding access to safe, comprehensive abortion care presents a critical opportunity to protect the health and rights of millions of women worldwide. By leveraging data and innovative tools, a silent challenge is transformed into actionable solutions that save lives and promote equity.

17 Dec

New Jersey enacts new safety standards for frozen embryos and eggs

AlanLatest NewsEmbryos, Fertility, Healthcare, New Jersey, Reproductive rights, United States

Health facilities in New Jersey that store frozen human embryos and eggs have new licensing requirements and rules to guard against operational failures under regulations that took effect Monday.

17 Dec

C-Section Risk Higher Among Sexual Minorities, Study Finds

AlanLatest Newsc-section, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Sexual minority, United States

People who identify as a sexual minority are more likely to undergo a C-section birth, a new study reports. Overall, sexual minority people had a 7% higher risk of requiring a Cesarean delivery, researchers report in the February 2026 issue of The Lancet Regional Health.

16 Dec

After Texas Ruling, States Seek to Fill Reproductive Health Data Privacy Gaps

RandyLatest NewsData Privacy, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

Several states have enacted privacy laws in recent years that touch on reproductive health data privacy to varying degrees. California, Washington, Virginia and New York are states to watch on this front

16 Dec

Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

RandyLatest NewsGlobal, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Survey by world’s largest network for sexual and reproductive health shows devastation to services, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and amplification of anti-rights voices

15 Dec

Madison Wisconsin doctor says abortion control proposals are meant to scare

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States, Wisconsin

Five months after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down an 1849 law thought to ban abortion statewide, the debate over reproductive care and abortion access is back in the state Legislature.

15 Dec

Abortion Patients Most Often Rely On Independent Clinics, But More Closed in 2025, Report Shows

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

"We were all scrambling to figure out what we needed to do and how we were going to accept all patients."