Dory – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.

07 Feb

American Society for Reproductive Medicine Responds to TrumpRx Announcement, Says IVF Access Requires More Than Lower Drug Prices

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The move by the Trump administration alone does not make IVF attainable for most patients. Fertility drugs represent only one portion of the overall cost of care, and patients without good insurance coverage continue to face significant out-of-pocket expenses.

31 Dec

Trump Admin Proposes Gender-Affirming Care Bans

DoryLatest Newsgender affirming care, Gender affirming Care ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trans Rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Trump Administration released two proposed rules intentionally designed to make gender affirming care for young people impossible to access. In one rule, federal Medicaid reimbursement is banned for medical care provided to transgender patients under 18 and prohibits reimbursements through CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) for transgender patients under 19. In the other rule, the administration is planning to block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for services at hospitals that provide gender affirming to young people.

31 Dec

EPA, states could consider regulating abortion pills

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, EPA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills.

30 Dec

Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill

DoryLatest NewsFertility, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, military, Reproductive rights, United States

More than eight years after my failed IUI, as federal employees have seen an expansion in their fertility benefits, TRICARE still doesn’t offer fertility coverage. A couple of weeks ago, it really looked like it would, which is why as we ring in 2026, I am thinking of the military families struggling to have a baby, for whom this new year will be off to a bitter start. They were banking on a provision in the massive defense bill signed into law by President Donald Trump just before the holidays that would have given them the same kind of access to fertility…

29 Dec

Aetna to Cover Fertility Care for Same-Sex Couples NationwidePregnancy

DoryLatest NewsFertility, Healthcare, Insurance, LGBTQ2S+, Reproductive rights, United States

For years, many same-sex couples have had to pay tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket to try to have children, even when their insurance covered fertility care for straight couples.

08 Dec

A New Chapter in Hormone Health: Dr. Rachel Fishman Oiknine Brings MDVIP’s Personalized Model to St. Louis

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Hormone, Reproductive rights, United States

Women in the St. Louis region will soon have access to a new model of personalized endocrinology care centered on women's health and long-term wellness. The new MDVIP-affiliated practice, led by Rachel Fishman Oiknine, MD, MSCP, marks a significant expansion of specialty care within the MDVIP network.

08 Dec

Prioritizing Women’s Health

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Maternal and Child Health, Menstruation, Mental health, Reproductive rights

Research into the three M’s of women’s health—menstruation, maternity, and menopause—has uncovered new insights about the start of puberty, shed light on mothers’ mental health, and laid a foundation for much-needed conversations about menopause.

07 Dec

Privacy concerns linger in reproductive health care despite HIPAA lawsuit’s dismissal

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

The four lawsuits at the center of a Republican-led effort to ensure law enforcement can access reproductive health records are now mostly resolved, after attorneys for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed last week to dismiss the last remaining suit challenging the legality of a foundational health privacy rule.

07 Dec

America’s war on pregnant women

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

“Iknow that I do not look like the stereotype of who is getting an abortion,” Lauren Miller tells me over the phone from Dallas, Texas. “I was already a mother, married, with a family. This was a wanted pregnancy.”

21 Nov

Commentary: Side effects of the Virginia Fundamental Right to Reproductive Freedom

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Bodily Autonomy, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

A proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution, called the “Fundamental Right to Reproductive Freedom,” is looming on the horizon like the threat of a mushroom cloud, and now we have a legislature primed to launch the aircraft and drop the bomb.

21 Nov

US cancer registries, constrained by Trump policies, to recognize only ‘male’ or ‘female’ patients

DoryLatest NewsAnti-Trans, cancer, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trans Rights, Transgender, transgender health care

The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of transgender people, one of the nation’s most marginalized populations.

20 Nov

Reproductive Health Equity for Migrants, Refugees, and Internally Displaced Populations

DoryLatest NewsDisplaced Persons, Healthcare, Migrants, Refugees, Reproductive Health Equity, Reproductive rights

Studies that propose innovative solutions to improve maternal and infant health among international and internally displaced populations.