Barbra – Page 5 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

12 Aug

Potential threats to IVF push political novices into election-year advocacy

BarbraLatest NewsIVF, Reproductive rights, Vote, Voters

Marilyn Gomez was sitting at her kitchen table in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Feb. 16 when news alerts and friends’ texts began pinging her phone: The all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court had ruled that frozen embryos created through in vitro fertilization were children under state law. That meant providers could be held liable for discarding them, a common part of the IVF process.https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/08/12/potential-threats-to-ivf-push-political-novices-into-election-year-advocacy/

11 Aug

Commentary: Threats to family planning loom large in Montana, U.S.

BarbraLatest NewsContraception, Montana, Opinion, Reproductive rights

Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a party line, federal funding bill that would completely eliminate funding for Title X, our nation’s only program dedicated solely to providing affordable, family planning services. To put it bluntly, they want to defund a program that provides contraception to people who want contraception but can’t afford contraception. This doesn’t make sense.

05 Aug

Harris’ possible running mates have record of securing reproductive rights post Dobbs

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

The Democratic Party kicked off its virtual roll call last week to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as its pick for the next commander-in-chief. Harris is expected to announce her running mate soon. Speculation over her vice presidential nominee has run rampant. States Newsroom’s Washington, D.C., bureau recently spoke with political experts who suspect Harris is looking for someone outside the Beltway to connect with voters. According to media reports, she has narrowed her choices to four male governors and a U.S. senator — all white — who represent a mix of competitive and solidly, left-leaning states: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky,…

03 Aug

South Dakota father is leading effort to restore abortion rights in the state

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, South Dakota, United States

Unlike other abortion-rights initiatives across the country, major reproductive rights groups haven’t backed the effort to restore access in South Dakota. But that hasn’t stopped Dakotans for Health — a ballot question committee behind a measure that is set to appear on the November ballot — from galvanizing voters in the state, where abortion is banned unless the mother’s life is at risk. South Dakota enacted a trigger law, first passed by lawmakers in 2005, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

28 Jul

Data privacy after Dobbs: Is period tracking safe?

BarbraLatest NewsData Privacy, Healthcare, Menstruation, Post-Dobbs, United States

After the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 and abortion was banned in the state of Tennessee, Dr. Danielle Kelvas quit using an app that tracked her menstrual cycle. “It frightened me … I actually got frightened because it tracked me for like, a week,” Kelvas said of the Oura Ring feature Cycle Insights. “And I thought, where’s this information going?”

26 Jul

I started reporting on the dearth of reproductive health care. Then I had my own emergency.

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

Tick. Tick. Tick. The clock in my OB-GYN’s office was taunting me. Tick. Tick. Tick. Any moment, I thought, this could kill me.

25 Jul

Anti-abortion group argues that Indiana health department’s abortion records must be public

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion data, Healthcare, IDOH, Indiana, Privacy, Reproductive rights, United States

In defense of its lawsuit against the state health department, a South Bend-based anti-abortion group doubled down in new court filings that related medical records do not compromise patient privacy and should be made available to the public. The ongoing lawsuit was filed in May by “Voices for Life,” which seeks to regain access to Terminated Pregnancy Reports (TPRs) that are no longer being released by the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH). The state health department is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit, however, maintaining that TPRs qualify as medical records and are exempt from disclosure under Indiana’s Access to Public Records Act, also known…

23 Jul

Cook to divest reproductive business to private equity company

BarbraLatest NewsART, International, IVF, reproductive technology

The sale includes Cook’s in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and assisted reproductive technology (ART) products, along with a Pennsylvania manufacturing site, Cook Vandergrift. After the deal closes, Astrog plans to combine the Cook ART portfolio with Hamilton Thorne, which also has an ART portfolio of its own.

22 Jul

Opinion: Abortion restrictions, inadequate investments undermine women’s health outcomes

BarbraLatest News, OpinionAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, North Carolina, United States, Women's Health

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16 Jul

Defending Women’s Rights: The Urgent Need for Equal Rights Amendments

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

The Dobbs decision and recent legal actions in Arizona, such as the temporary reinstatement and subsequent reversal of a pre-1901 restrictive abortion law, have severely disrupted women's access to reproductive health services. Recent wins in Nevada and Pennsylvania, where restrictions on state health insurance-funded abortions were overturned, highlight the critical need for federal and state Equal Rights Amendments (ERAs). These amendments would strengthen reproductive rights protections, ensuring the U.S. aligns more closely with international human rights standards by grounding these rights inequality rather than privacy.

15 Jul

Top American election concerns include environment, reproductive right, and more

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States, Vote, Voters

Over the last several months, people from across the country have been sharing with their public media stations the issues they most care about in the months before the general election. Stations asked in on-line and on-air call-outs: “What Issues would you like candidates to discuss as they compete for your vote this election season?”

12 Jul

National Organization for Women hosts rally outside SCOTUS

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, NOW, SCOTUS, United States

Protesters with the National Organization for Women gathered outside the Supreme Court on June 24 to advocate for reproductive rights, equal rights and an end to domestic violence.

12 Jul

Polish Parliament Rejects Bill Seeking to Ease Strict Abortion Law

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, International Abortion News, legislation, Poland

Poland's lower house rejected a bill on Friday that sought to scrap penalties for people who help someone to get an abortion, highlighting deep divisions in the ruling coalition over easing one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws. Under the draft law, people helping to arrange an abortion, for example by providing abortion pills, and doctors performing terminations in the early weeks of pregnancy or due to foetal anomalies would no longer have faced charges.

11 Jul

Senate Democrats brought up four more bills to protect reproductive rights. Republicans blocked them.

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, US Senate

All but two Republicans voted against a nonbinding bill that would have affirmed protections for abortion.

11 Jul

House GOP funding bill in danger over DC reproductive rights rider

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, House of Representatives, legislation

A Republican effort to target a Washington, D.C., law aimed at protecting employees’ reproductive rights is endangering a spending bill GOP leadership hopes to pass later this month.