Madison – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

21 Jun

Care Not Control: Repression & Youth Resistance

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Privacy, Reproductive rights, teenagers, Youth

We are socialized to believe that laws, police, courts, child protective services, juvenile detention centers, and prisons protect us. But this same criminal legal system is often used to punish and instill fear in our communities—forcing us into restrictive gender and social rules. Today, surveillance systems are used to track youth. This isn’t meant to keep them safe. It is meant to mark them as the next target.

20 Jun

Nevada’s Cortez Masto Leads Effort to Protect the Right of Women to Cross State Lines to Seek Abortion Care

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democrats, Female Democratic Congresspeople, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Dobbs decision, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) re-introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. This legislation would block anti-choice states and localities from limiting travel for abortion services and empower impacted individuals to bring civil action against those who restrict a woman’s right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care

19 Jun

With giant IUD outside Capitol, Arizona Democrats call on GOP to protect contraception access

MadisonLatest NewsArizona, Contraception, Democrats, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his Dobbs concurrence that the constitutional right to contraception should be reconsidered next

19 Jun

Wisconsin Democrats and advocates call for state birth control protections

MadisonLatest NewsContraception, Democrats, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers and reproductive rights advocates called for state protection of birth control on the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that protected married couples’ ability to use contraception. State laws are necessary to protect Wisconsinites from potential actions by the Trump administration and the Supreme Court targeting access to birth control, they warned.

18 Jun

What is Life Like for Disabled Women in Afghanistan?

MadisonLatest NewsFemale Health, Global, People With Disabilities

My name is Mehria. I am 16 years old and I live in northern Afghanistan. Since birth, I have had a disability in one of my legs, which becomes more apparent when I walk. My mother says my disability is congenital and cannot be cured with treatment.

17 Jun

Texas Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Moves To Force Vote To Guarantee the Right to Contraception

MadisonLatest Newsconception, Democratic, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) filed a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on her bill, the Right to Contraception Act, H.R. 999, to guarantee by law the right to contraception. A discharge petition is a legislative tool in the House of Representatives that allows a majority of members to force a bill to the floor for a vote by the full chamber, even if the Speaker of the House opposes it.

04 Jun

Lawsuit continues to challenge Biden-era regulation adding abortion to pregnant worker protections

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Catholic Church, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A group of Catholic ministries asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit May 18 to block a federal agency from enforcing an abortion provision in regulations meant to add workplace protections for pregnant workers.

03 Jun

The Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) STILL ‘RIDDLED WITH MISOGYNY’

MadisonLatest NewsGlobal, Ireland, misogyny, Violence Against Women

THE James Connolly Festival 2026 organised by the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) is the source of a most fractious debate among comrades about Connolly; the primacy of the working class; and, worst of all in these enlightened days, misogyny.

02 Jun

Man Up: The new misogyny and the rise of violent extremism

MadisonLatest NewsHealthcare, MAGA, misogyny, United States, Violence, Violence Against Women

What two things do most mass shooters, terrorists or violent extremists have in common? Most of us know the first: they are almost always men or boys. But the second? They are almost always virulent misogynists, homophobes or transphobes - even if they are also motivated by racism, antisemitism or xenophobia.

01 Jun

Birth Control Options in 2026

MadisonLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Birth control continues to evolve, offering safer, more personalized options than ever before. In 2026, contraceptive care emphasizes lower hormone exposure, long-term convenience, and individualized risk assessment.