Dory – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

23 Mar

NY Democratic Governor Hochul Announces New Funding Opportunity for Abortion Health Care Services

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

$20 Million in State Grants for Supplemental Abortion Provider Support Program Available to Eligible Providers State Department of Health Issued Letters to 22 Awardees Announcing Funding Availability

22 Mar

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

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

The Center for Reproductive Rights is representing a Texas midwife sued for supposedly performing illegal abortions.

21 Mar

Survey Findings: Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health into UHC Requires Leadership, Financing, and Political Will

DoryLatest NewsGlobal, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Universal Health Coverage

For millions of women and girls, access to sexual and reproductive health care remains out of reach. Despite being fundamental to health and wellbeing, these services are chronically underfunded, leaving an estimated 164 million women with unmet family planning needs and contributing to preventable pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths.

12 Mar

Trump Admin Must Provide Answers for Horrifying Treatment of Pregnant ICE Detainees

DoryLatest NewsCenter for Reproductive Rights, GOP, Healthcare, ICE, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Multiple pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women have shared ghastly stories of mistreatment and neglect at the hands of ICE agents

11 Mar

NAACP Files Amicus Brief to Support Access to Affordable Contraception

DoryLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, NAACP, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The NAACP signed on to an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President United States of America, et al. In the case, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are challenging regulations enacted during the first Trump administration that expanded the religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit. The exemptions allow employers or universities to impose religious or moral beliefs on their employees and students – blocking them from accessing affordable contraception.

10 Mar

Michigan AG Nessel Defends Access to Birth Control and Other Contraceptive Care

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Michigan, Reproductive rights, United States

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (PDF) challenging the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations undermining the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious and moral exemptions to allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and services.

09 Mar

Contraceptive vaccine reduces fertility in animals to address wildlife overpopulation

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Reproductive rights, United States, Wildlife

Patent-pending vaccine stimulates lasting immune response that addresses limitations of current models

18 Feb

Philadelphia’s Condom distribution programs promote safe sex

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Philadelphia, Reproductive rights, Safe Sex, United States

When used correctly, condoms are proven to be 99% effective against STDs and unintended pregnancy. During National Condom Month in February, the Health Department is highlighting two condom distribution programs that promote safe sex. The health department’s two condom distribution programs, Take Control Philly and Philly Keep On Loving, help address barriers to condom availability and accessibility. Last year, they distributed approximately 865,000 condoms to people throughout the city.

18 Feb

‘We face very real threats to our reproductive rights’

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

UNISON agreed to champion reproductive health in the workplace and fight back against the far right On the third day of UNISON national women’s conference, motions on reproductive health dominated the agenda. The first to pass was a motion titled ‘abortion is healthcare’, which called on the union to campaign for the full decriminalisation of abortion.

18 Feb

Contraception Bills Continue to Move Forward in Virginia General Assembly

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Democrats, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States, Virginia

Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy (D-Prince William) and reproductive rights advocates from REPRO Rising Virginia, Birth in Color, Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, Americans for Contraception, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia addressed the issue of contraceptive coverage

17 Feb

Why this Little-Known Birth Control Option Deserves More Attention

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Injectible, Reproductive rights, Risks

Self-administered injectable contraception has been available in the U.S. for more than two decades, yet a new study found that only about a quarter of reproductive health experts prescribe it — and many are unaware it’s even an option.

17 Feb

Menstrual Cycle Awareness Lowest Among Under-25s

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Menstruation, Reproductive rights, UK

MORE than one in five women are unable to report their menstrual cycle length, a 2026 UK-based retrospective, cross-sectional analysis has found.

16 Feb

Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in 2026: From Crisis Management to System Correction

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights

The past year confirmed that gains in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) were more fragile than previously assumed. In 2025, sharp financing contractions, political retrenchment on rights, particularly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and multiple and intersecting crises, converged to expose how fragile past gains really were. Having relied heavily on external financing and political prioritization through the Millennium and then Sustainable Development Goals, today WCAH suffers from the structural failures of the global development system.

09 Feb

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Anti-abortion conservatives have long sought to force Planned Parenthood’s clinics to close their doors and to make it harder, if not impossible, to get abortion pills as part of a two-pronged approach to limit access to abortion.

08 Feb

HIV in the Black Community: Shifting from Stigma and Health Inequalities to Communication and Care Initiatives

DoryLatest NewsBlack Community, Healthcare, HIV, Reproductive rights, United States

Black Americans are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than the general US population, and black women in particular, carry a large HIV disease burden. In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its surveillance report that showed that despite Black women in the United States making up just 13% of the overall female population, they accounted for 50% of HIV diagnoses among women.