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16 Mar

Australian Government Subsidizes Key Medications To Boost Women’s Health

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, International, IVF, Women's Health

The Australian government is set to make significant changes to women’s health care by adding popular medications to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Starting May 1, 2025, three major medications will be subsidized, providing financial relief to thousands of women facing high costs for contraceptive, endometriosis, and IVF treatments.

16 Mar

The Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

New research shows that abortion bans led to more unwanted or unsafe pregnancies carried to term, resulting in an increase in both live births and infant deaths.

15 Mar

Political climate linked with Georgia women’s mental health outcomes, Emory study finds

ChaseLatest NewsGeorgia, Healthcare, Mental health, misogyny, United States, Women's Health

While politicianscan make decisions that have direct effects on keeping the public healthy, new research from Emory University highlights how policymakers may also have indirect impacts on their constituents’ wellbeing.

06 Mar

GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions.

05 Mar

Women for Sale: What Anora’s Success Tells Us

ChaseLatest Newsmisogyny, Sexual Assault, Sexual violence, United States

While Anora is praised for inspiring an end to stigma, it actually reinforces the lack of empathy for what women suffer in all forms of sexual violence.

05 Mar

Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Trump’s Anti-Trans Healthcare Order

ChaseLatest NewsTrans Rights, United States

Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth, together with PFLAG National and GLMA, filed a federal legal challenge against a January 2025 executive order from the Trump administration directing federal agencies to withhold funds from medical providers and institutions that provide gender-affirming medical treatments for people under nineteen.

27 Feb

Anti-abortion advocates split over push to renew Missouri ban with rape, incest exceptions

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Missouri, Sexual Assault, United States

A Republican state senator and anti-abortion activists testified against a proposed abortion ban because they believe it doesn’t go far enough

26 Feb

Judge permanently blocks Ohio law on disposal of aborted fetal remains

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion, Healthcare, Ohio, United States

An Ohio law requiring fetal or embryonic remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried violates the constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights that the state's voters approved in 2023, a judge ruled in permanently blocking the law.