Dory – Page 8 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

19 Nov

Judge’s ruling temporarily frees Montana abortion clinics from new licensing requirements

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, legislation, Montana, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion clinics in Montana won’t be subject to new licensing requirements — ones their lawyers said could shut them down — at least for the time being. Last week, a Lewis and Clark County District Court judge said the licensing requirements imposed by House Bill 937 from the 2023 Montana Legislature are likely to violate patients’ rights to equal protection.

11 Nov

Health experts outline how Trump administration could affect abortion, contraception access

DoryLatest NewsReproductive rights, Trump, United States

President-elect Donald Trump has several choices to make in the coming months about whether his second administration will keep access to contraception and abortion as it is now or implement changes.

11 Nov

Pa. abortion providers, legal experts look at what’s ahead for reproductive rights under a second Trump term

DoryLatest News2025, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Health providers and legal experts say changes to federal funding, insurance coverage and federal law during Trump’s first presidency could foretell what’s to come.

10 Nov

Opinion: How could Trump and abortion rights both win?

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Making sense of this election’s very strange abortion politics.

31 Oct

Reproductive rights groups sue Louisiana over controlled substances law

DoryLatest News, United Stateslegislation, Louisiana, Reproductive rights, United States

A group of health care providers and two Louisiana women who were denied abortion care are suing state officials to block a new law that makes common pregnancy medications controlled dangerous substances, arguing the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

24 Oct

Reproductive health care in the Southeast hinges on Florida abortion-rights measure, doctors say

DoryLatest News6 week abortion ban, Abortion Ban Exceptions, Florida, legislation, Reproductive rights

Dr. Cherise Felix says a recent patient yelled and swore at her before eventually hugging her, grateful she would no longer have to carry the planned-for baby that had died inside her.

18 Oct

Reproductive rights: Where do Trump and Harris stand?

DoryLatest News

This year’s election marks the first time voters are casting ballots for president since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion and made reproductive rights a pivotal issue for many voters.

10 Oct

AJPH Study Shows That Most Abortion Restrictive US States Provide the Least Support for Pregnant Women

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Bans, American Journal of Public Health, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

The United States Supreme Court’s ruling on the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case in June 2024 revoked constitutionally guaranteed access to abortion for women. Since the ruling, 14 US states have placed a complete ban on abortions, while others have banned abortion during the 6 to 18 weeks gestation period. In the US, minoritized people and people of low socioeconomic status suffer from disproportionately low access to safe abortions — a situation made worse by the geographical barriers created by post-Dobbs abortion restriction policies. However, people who support post-Dobbs restrictions insist that the policies can help protect children, women and families.

04 Oct

‘How do you treat a person who isn’t the standard in this post-Roe world?’

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Abortion patients, new report highlight barriers to accessing care despite Virginia’s fewer restrictions.

03 Oct

VP Debate: What Vance and Walz had to say about abortion and immigration

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, vice presidential debate

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance squared off Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate and, unsurprisingly, they were miles apart when it came to abortion and immigration policy.

03 Oct

It’s harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Funds, Florida, Reproductive rights, travel, United States

Financial aid funds that help women pay for abortions — or travel to other states to access care — are struggling financially, despite abortion's role in this year's elections.

29 Sep

Women’s health advocates fear restricted abortion access in PA

DoryLatest NewsEctopic Pregnancy, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights

Susie Blum Connors never considered the surgery that saved her life three times an abortion. That's because it wasn't. The 74-year-old Scranton woman had three life-threatening ectopic pregnancies treated with emergency procedures in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

28 Sep

Abortion, reproductive rights are economic issues

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Reproductive rights

In a recent television appearance, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer highlighted an all-too-often unrecognized reality: Reproductive rights are an economic issue — and not only for women.

28 Sep

In Russia, International Safe Abortion Day Is a Reminder of Reproductive Rights Backsliding

DoryLatest NewsInternational, Reproductive rights, Russia

Women’s rights activists across the globe on Saturday marked International Safe Abortion Day. But for many in Russia, the occasion was a bitter reminder of how far the country’s government has backtracked on its once-liberal abortion policies, leaving thousands of women with increasingly limited access to safe, affordable and timely abortion care.

22 Sep

How promises of a ‘post-Roe future’ have fallen short

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a then-little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana introduced a short bill that proposed amending the Social Security Act to ensure child support payments be made for an “unborn child.”