2025 – Page 6 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.

31 Oct

How women physicians can shape the future of health care AI

RandyLatest NewsAI, Healthcare, Physicians, United States, Women

Cardiologist and clinical informaticist Ashley Beecy, MD, gets a lot questions these days about integrating augmented intelligence (AI)—commonly called artificial intelligence—into health care. As the chief AI officer at Sutter Health, in Northern California, she leads the strategic advancement of AI across her health system.

31 Oct

Researchers discuss gaps, obstacles and solutions for contraception

RandyLatest NewsContraceptives, Healthcare, Massachusetts, Reproductive rights, United States

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.

30 Oct

Judge Quashes DOJ Effort To Acquire Private Patient Information

RileyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In a scathing order, a judge in Washington State said the government’s real purpose was to intimidate providers into dropping or paring back transgender care.

30 Oct

Targeting Black Women Workers

RileyLatest NewsMinority Groups, Unemployment, United States

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the workforce in tech, finance, healthcare, DEI, and the federal government. In January 2025, Black women comprised 12 percent of the federal workforce, nearly twice the national average. Tragically, Dr. Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve as a Federal Reserve Governor, received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Unsurprisingly, she’s now on the chopping block. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has rightly pointed out that Black women’s employment is a “key metric of the…

30 Oct

The Quiet Collapse of America’s Reproductive Health Safety Net

RileyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month’s end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid.

29 Oct

MN. Attorney General Ellison blocks illegal cuts to comprehensive sexual health education

RileyLatest NewsHealthcare, Minnesota, Reproductive rights, Sex Education, United States

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction late Monday blocking the Trump administration from defunding reproductive and sexual health education programs unless those programs agreed to fully erase any acknowledgment of gender identity from their curricula. The ruling is the latest in a lawsuit filed by 16 states and the District of Columbia, which Attorney General Ellison co-led. The states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in September alleging the administration was denying young people services for cruel and purely political reasons with no regard for the law.