2025 – Page 21 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

16 Jun

Don’t let them politicize your menstrual cycle. Period.

CoreyLatest NewsContraception, Menstruation, United States

In a country where birth control access is in jeopardy and women's medical needs have been historically overlooked, how do social media trends like #lutealphase and "cycle syncing" complicate the narrative?

16 Jun

Why We Must Keep Talking About Abortion Pills

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, International, mifipristone, Reproductive rights

As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice are really part of the same fight.

14 Jun

Our film imagined a post-Roe nightmare. Then it came true

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Commentary, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Trump's rollback of emergency abortion protections will cost lives

14 Jun

Nevada U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen Joins Senate Democrats Push to Protect IVF Access for Families Nationwide

ChaseLatest NewsDemocrats, IVF, Nevada, Reproductive rights, Senate, United States

This week, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined Senate Democratic colleagues in introducing the Protect IVF Act, legislation that would establish a nationwide right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and protect families, providers, and insurers from state-level restrictions or interference. The bill comes in response to increasing attacks on reproductive freedom following the repeal of Roe v. Wade, including an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that effectively halted IVF services in the state last year. This legislation would ensure that no American is denied the ability to build a family due to extreme and politically motivated laws.

13 Jun

Texas clarified when abortions are OK and aligned with RFK Jr. on health this legislative session

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Reproductive rights, Texas

Amid a quiet legislative session for health, lawmakers’ priority legislation reinforced the U.S. health secretary’s agenda.

13 Jun

The veto governor: Paid leave, IVF bills fall as Nevada’s Lombardo crushes his own record

ChaseLatest NewsIVF, legilsation, Nevada, Reproductive rights

Gov. Joe Lombardo in 2023 smashed the record for most vetoes during a single legislative sesseion, rejecting 75 bills. This year, he beat his own record, vetoing 87 bills as of Thursday evening.

10 Jun

Texas’ abortion bans are here to stay despite narrow clarification

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Anti-abortion, legislation, Texas

Legal challenges have failed, elections haven’t moved the needle and the fight for a narrow clarification shows how immovable these laws are.

09 Jun

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth

CoreyLatest NewsDrug Testing, Healthcare, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, United States

Several proposals followed an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal exposing the harms of widespread drug testing of pregnant patients.

09 Jun

Here’s what happened with abortion at the Texas Legislature this year

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Texas

After more than three years under a near-total abortion ban, Texas’ 89th legislative session brought forth discussions about the ways Texans continue to access the highly restricted procedure.

08 Jun

Hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, federal inquiry finds

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation.

08 Jun

How a network of women in Latin America transformed safe, self-managed abortions

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Pills, International, Self-managed abortion, Underground network

In November 1990, more than 3,000 women descended on the sleepy beach town of San Bernardo del Tuyú, Argentina, for what was becoming a legendary event.

07 Jun

US states urge Food and Drug Administration to expand abortion pill accessibility

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Pill, Abortion pill access, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, mifepristone, United States

"The attorneys general of New York, California, Massachusetts, and New Jersey on Thursday asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove some of the restrictions on access to mifepristone, the so-called “abortion pill.” The four states have requested that the FDA remove the mifepristone risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) program, “including but not limited to the Prescriber Certification, Pharmacy Certification, and Patient Agreement form.” The states have dubbed these requirements “unnecessary, duplicative, and burdensome.” The FDA approved mifepristone (brand name “Mifeprex”) more than 20 years ago based on a comprehensive review of scientific evidence. As of 2016, mifepristone has been deemed…

07 Jun

Pennsylvania senators push for abortion shield law to create haven from states with bans

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Haven, Abortion travel, Lawmakers, Pennsylvania, Senators, Shield Law, United States

"A pair of Pennsylvania lawmakers are looking to pass a so-called shield law that would offer legal protections for out-of-state women seeking abortions in the commonwealth and for the doctors who perform the procedure. “While we cannot prevent other states from criminalizing abortion, we can protect individuals seeking and providing reproductive health services in the Commonwealth,” Sens. Amanda Cappelletti, of Montgomery County, and Judith Schwank, of Berks County, wrote in a memo June 5. “We can take a stance against the use of our criminal justice system from assisting in those prosecutions.”..."

07 Jun

Does Georgia’s fetal ‘personhood’ law mean a pregnant woman must stay on life support?

AlanLatest News"personhood", Georgia, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

By the time she ended up at a Georgia hospital with emergency complications, 30-year-old Atlanta nurse Adriana Smith was almost nine weeks pregnant.

06 Jun

Under One of the World’s Most Extreme Abortion Bans, Texas Doubles Down

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Texas has enforced some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, and therefore in the Western world. By enacting a near-total ban that only allows abortions to save the life of the mother, Texas joined ranks with about 30 generally volatile countries worldwide including Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, and Myanmar. (That’s according to abortion ban tracking by the Center for Reproductive Rights, on whose website you can check out an interactive map that will make you wonder if Texas exactly counts as part of the “developed world.”)