Chase – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Sep

Expanded Protections for Reproductive Health and Gender-Affirming Care: What Massachusetts Providers Need to Know

ChaseLatest Newsgender affirming care, Healthcare, Massachusetts, Reproductive rights, United States

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed into law an Act Strengthening Healthcare Protections in the Commonwealth (the “Act”), which amends the state’s existing “Shield Law” protections for providers of reproductive health and gender-affirming care (“Protected Care”). The Act is the latest response by Massachusetts to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion and returned the authority to regulate reproductive health care to the states. Dobbs has resulted in an uncertain legal landscape where numerous states restricting reproductive care (“Restrictive States”) have enacted broad laws that potentially create liability for out-of-state providers. Like similar laws…

05 Sep

Minnesota Judge Dismisses Lawsuit, Keeps Abortion Protections In Place

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Minnesota, Reproductive rights, travel, United States

The lawsuit, brought by anti-abortion organizations and crisis pregnancy centers, sought to limit abortion access, claiming that the state's abortion laws are too permissive. Other states in the news: North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Wyoming, New Hampshire, and more.

28 Aug

Federal Officials Defund Health Imperatives

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Healthcare, Massachusetts, Reproductive rights, United States

For 15 years, despite patients’ right to abortion care in Massachusetts, it was impossible to get an abortion on Cape Cod. Then, in 2023, Health Imperatives, a nonprofit sexual and family health organization, opened a clinic in Hyannis. Although surgical abortion procedures are not offered at the clinic, it made medication abortions in the early weeks of a pregnancy an option for Cape Cod patients.

28 Aug

The Latest: White House says CDC director is fired, agency leaders resign

ChaseLatest NewsCDC, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

The White House says the director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned, saying President Donald Trump’s administration is putting politics in the way of keeping Americans safe.

17 Aug

Minors’ Ability to Consent to Contraception and Abortion Services

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, Healthcare, Minors, Parental consent, Reproductive rights, United States

Across the country, minors’ ability to consent to their health care, particularly their reproductive health care, varies significantly. Expanding “parental rights’ in health and education has been a priority for politically conservative groups and was outlined as a “top-tier” right by the Heritage Foundation in Project 2025. While parental involvement in health care can facilitate access and improve outcomes, it is not always possible for teens to include parents in decisions about sensitive health care decisions. Some teens, particularly those who have unstable home lives, are in foster care, or fear abuse if their parents were to become aware they are seeking…

17 Aug

Six Months In: How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Globally

ChaseLatest NewsGlobal, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has undertaken a sweeping and ideologically driven rollback of human rights protections, with particularly grave consequences for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally. The administration has drastically cut funding to international health programs, withdrawn from key multilateral institutions and agreements, and advanced an agenda that is overtly opposed to human rights, particularly those advancing gender and reproductive autonomy. These actions not only threaten access to essential health services for millions of people—particularly in low- and middle-income countries—but also undermine international cooperation and accountability in advancing the rights and health of women, girls…

15 Aug

Planned Parenthood role as Indiana Medicaid provider at risk as AG strikes at decade-old injunction

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

The state cited a SCOTUS switch-up in arguing it should be able to enforce a 2011 law.

15 Aug

Judge sides with NJ, strikes down Trump rules in Obamacare contraception case

ChaseLatest NewsACA, Contraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

A federal judge this week sided with New Jersey and Pennsylvania by striking down Trump administration regulations that allowed employers citing religious or moral grounds to opt out of contraceptive mandates under the Affordable Care Act.

24 Jul

WEC launches new inquiry into reproductive health conditions among girls and young women

ChaseLatest NewsInternational, Reproductive rights, UK

United Kingdom's Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) is today (Thursday, 24 July) launching a new inquiry into reproductive health conditions: girls and young women.

24 Jul

Most US adults still support legal abortion 3 years after Roe was overturned, an AP-NORC poll finds

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans, most U.S. adults continue to say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling.

23 Jul

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP, International, Poor Countries, Trump Administration

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

23 Jul

Federal threats to gender-affirming care add fear for future of access for minors

ChaseLatest Newsgender affirming care, Healthcare, Minors, Post-Dobbs, United States

After Supreme Court ruling, restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors parallel abortion bans enforced post-Dobbs

16 Jul

Why We Need ‘Cliteracy’ Today More Than Ever

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Women's Health

Women possess the only bodily organ whose sole purpose is to bring pleasure.

16 Jul

Op-Ed: Sherrill warns about loss of abortion rights, Planned Parenthood funding in NJ

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democrats, Gubernatorial Race, Healthcare, New Jersey, Op-Ed, Reproductive rights

Democratic candidate for governor says reproductive health care at risk

15 Jul

Abortion-related travel could face another ‘shock to the system’ under new spending law

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, travel, Trump

Trump’s law “defunds” Planned Parenthood, which could lead to clinic closures across the country. States where abortion is legal stand to be hit the hardest.