Alan – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

02 Dec

Seaside (Oregon) loses trusted labor and delivery unit, reflecting a growing rural healthcare challenge in the Northwest

AlanLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

On a recent afternoon in Seaside, Oregon, Heather Murdoch-Medema packed up her apartment, categorizing which boxes would go into storage and which she would take with her to her new home in Portland.

02 Dec

Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Fake Clinicws, Healthcare, United States

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions. The case highlights an effort to crack down on so-called crisis pregnancy centers. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/rise-of-crisis-pregnancy-centers-highlights-shift-in-anti-abortion-movement

01 Dec

Fertility Testing Devices Trends and Forecast Report 2025: An $18.38 Billion Market by 2030, Driven by Rising Infertility Rates, Delayed Pregnancies, Advancements in Reproductive Testing Technologies

AlanLatest NewsFinance, Global, Infertility

Key opportunities in the Global Fertility Testing Devices Market include addressing the rising infertility rates with accessible, advanced diagnostic tools. Expanding at-home testing options cater to growing demand for privacy and convenience, enabling proactive reproductive health management.

01 Dec

State Variations in the Role of the Reproductive Health Safety Net for Contraceptive Care Among Medicaid Enrollees

AlanLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Medicaid, Reproductive rights, United States

Medicaid is a major source of coverage for contraceptive care for millions of people. Many Medicaid patients rely on a range of safety net providers including Planned Parenthood clinics, community health centers, state and local health departments, and Indian Health Services for their contraceptive care. The composition of the safety net and the relative role of the different providers vary considerably from state to state.

13 Nov

ICE Crackdown Heightens Barriers for Immigrant Domestic Violence Victims

AlanLatest NewsDomestic Violence, Healthcare, ICE, Immigration, Intimate Partner Violence, Trump Administration, United States

The immigrant from India believed her husband when he said that if she wasn’t gone by the time he got to their Georgia home in 10 minutes, he would kill her.

13 Nov

The fertility revolution NYC women are choosing: gentler, smarter, more accessible IVF

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, NYC, Reproductive rights, United States

Manhattan’s fertility clinics are witnessing a quiet transformation in how women approach motherhood — and it starts with putting patients back in control

12 Nov

New Federal Medicaid Cuts Will Devastate Coverage for Reproductive Health Care

AlanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Medicaid, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

For decades, Medicaid has been central to contraceptive care and other reproductive health services for low-income people in the United States. Massive cuts to Medicaid under the recent federal budget law are poised to strip away coverage and access to care from millions of people, with far-reaching and harmful consequences nationwide. Medicaid is the second largest source of health insurance in the United States, and it covers 21% of women aged 15–49,* the group most likely to need and use reproductive health care. The program’s role has increased substantially over the past decade after 40 states and the District of Columbia expanded Medicaid for…

12 Nov

Gender Equality’s Final Frontier: Ourselves

AlanLatest Newsgender equality, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 is out, and the numbers are grim: Women have broken barriers in education but remain sidelined in leadership, holding only 27.2% of parliamentary seats, 30% of managerial posts, and just a handful of head-of-state positions worldwide. At this pace, parity in management is still a century away.

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.

14 Aug

U.S. Repro Watch: Six Updates You Won’t Want to Miss

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Trump administration proposes new abortion ban, states sue over federal Medicaid cuts, and more news on U.S. reproductive rights.

14 Aug

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

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Telemedicine, United States

In a new study, 84% of online prescriptions went to patients living in abortion-ban states

13 Aug

Repro Red Flags: Executive Actions

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, Maternal & Child Health, Reproductive rights, Trump, Trump Administration, United States

President Donald Trump has stacked his administration with anti-reproductive rights officials responsible for leading federal agencies that directly impact access to reproductive health care—including abortion, birth control, IVF, and maternal health care.