Dory – Page 9 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.”

21 Sep

‘She should be alive today’ – Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Medical care, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

‘She should be alive today’ – Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

12 Sep

Florida’s Six-Week Ban Led to Substantial Drop in Clinician-Provided Abortions

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Florida, legislation, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

New estimates from Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that clinician-provided abortions dropped substantially in Florida after a ban on abortions after six weeks’ gestation took effect on May 1, 2024. The decline likely reflects reductions in access to abortion for Florida residents as well as people from neighboring states with abortion bans who would have traveled to Florida for abortion care.

10 Sep

Post-Roe health provider survey finds abortion bans create bad outcomes and distress

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Physicians, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

Care Post Roe director at the University of California San Francisco says medical students are now learning how to deal with distress around abortion bans as part of their training

02 Sep

The 10 states where voters could decide on abortion directly

DoryLatest Newslegislation, Reproductive rights, States, Vote

Coloradans could enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution and eliminate a ban on public funds being used for abortions

02 Sep

Abortion ballot organizer says Montanans should not take reproductive rights for granted

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Montana, Reproductive rights, United States

The year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Montana’s Republican-majority legislature passed an array of bills restricting abortion. Though these laws were blocked by courts and abortion until fetal viability remains the law in Montana, reproductive rights activists say they no longer feel confident that their state constitution’s right to privacy will always protect their rights while pregnant. Now Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution. Last week the secretary of state’s office approved and certified Constitutional Initiative 128,…

24 Aug

Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland’s 2024 ballot

DoryLatest NewsAbortion ballot measure, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Maryland, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion rights will be on the Maryland ballot in 2024. Abortions are legal in Maryland. However, state lawmakers last year passed an amendment that would enshrine the right to an abortion, and "reproductive freedom," in Maryland's constitution.

23 Aug

Dems discuss the future of Women’s Reproductive Rights

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Women’s reproductive rights are on the ballot in 2024 and a hot conversation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Republicans and Democrats are using the issue to energize voters to hit the polls in November. Think Big America hosted a panel of pro-choice activists and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to discuss what’s at stake this election.

08 Aug

Despite Bans, Abortions Rise In US

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, United States

Nearly 100,000 pregnancies are being terminated each month, according to #WeCount data, with a greater percentage of them being medication abortions. Moreover, one in five women are turning to telehealth for the care they need.

08 Aug

Illinois further expands reproductive health care protections

DoryLatest NewsIllinois, legislation, Reproductive rights

Gov. JB Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to perform an abortion in response to a clinical emergency. Another bill bolsters Illinois’ interstate shield law that prohibits Illinois authorities from disclosing information, or using resources, to abet any interstate investigation into someone receiving abortion services within Illinois. The final bill signed prohibits discrimination against people for their reproductive health decisions, including abortion, in vitro fertilization and fertility treatment.

07 Aug

Senate Democrats brought up four more bills to protect reproductive rights. Republicans blocked them.

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

All but two Republicans voted against a nonbinding bill that would have affirmed protections for abortion.