Pat – Page 7 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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

PatLatest 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

PatLatest 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.

PatLatest 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.

07 Aug

Telehealth abortion still on the rise, especially in states with shield laws, report shows

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Telehealth, United States

Both the overall number of abortions and the use of telehealth abortion care continue to increase in the United States, according to the latest #WeCount report released Wednesday. Telehealth made up 20% of all abortion care in the first three months of 2024, and the monthly total of abortions exceeded 100,000 for the first time since the group began tracking abortion data in 2022.

24 Jul

Democrats Hope Harris’ Bluntness on Abortion Will Translate to 2024 Wins in Congress and White House

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

President Joe Biden might not often use the word “abortion” when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does. She's also toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic where the procedure is performed and routinely links the fall of Roe to the larger issue of rising maternal mortality nationwide.

24 Jul

Women living with HIV continue to face violations of their sexual and reproductive rights—including coercion into sterilization

PatLatest NewsHIV, International, Reproductive Coercion, Reproductive rights

Women living with HIV including women from key populations continue to suffer widespread reproductive coercion, mistreatment, and neglect when seeking reproductive health services and rights around the world, a new report by the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) has revealed today. The report was launched at a joint ICW/UNAIDS event at the 25th International AIDS Conference taking place in Munich, Germany.

23 Jul

Here’s where Kamala Harris stands on various health care issues as she campaigns for presidency

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Harris has expressed many of the same views as Biden on health care issues, including access to abortion and lowering prescription drug prices, both while campaigning against Biden for their party's presidential nomination during the last general election and as Biden's vice president.

22 Jul

Harris, who is Biden’s voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Harris, Healthcare, United States

Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, he leaned on the outspoken former prosecutor and senator he selected as his vice president, Kamala Harris, to be the White House’s voice of unflinching support for reproductive health rights.

20 Jul

Abortion Gets the Silent Treatment at the RNC

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Healthcare, legislation, Post-Dobbs, United States

Sen. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee didn’t talk about it. Neither did her colleagues Sens. Steve Daines from Montana or Tim Scott from South Carolina. Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, didn’t bring it up. A top adviser to the former president, Kellyanne Conway, certainly didn’t — she’s been warning Republican lawmakers for months to be careful about how they talk about it.

14 Jul

What states are voting on abortion ballot measures in 2024?

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, legislation, travel, United States, Vote

The following table provides a list of abortion-related measures that are on the ballot in 2024: StateDateMeasureDescriptionColoradoNov. 5, 2024Right to Abortion Initiative• Provide a constitutional right to abortion in the state constitution and allow the use of public funds for abortionFloridaNov. 5, 2024Florida Amendment 4• Provide a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability, which is estimated to be around 24 weeks, or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare providerMarylandNov. 5, 2024Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment• Amend the Maryland Constitution to establish a right to reproductive freedom, defined to include "decisions to prevent, continue, or end…

13 Jul

Opinion: Trump can’t undo the damage he’s done to reproductive rights

PatLatest News2024, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Opinion, United States, Vermont

Try as he might, Donald Trump can’t blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy.

13 Jul

In Missouri governor race, Democratic rivals see abortion rights as path to victory over GOP

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Election 2024, Missouri, United States, Vote

Crystal Quade and Mike Hamra are facing off in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Both believe an abortion-rights amendment could help them win the governor’s mansion in November.

10 Jul

THE ABORTION FIGHT GOES LOCAL Becerra fears abortion fight is the ‘painful’ start to an erosion of U.S. freedoms

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, United States

In February, the secretary of health and human services traveled to Alabama, where he witnessed firsthand the fallout from a local court decision that temporarily banned in vitro fertilization

10 Jul

NJ Pharmacies slow to sign up for no-prescription birth control

PatLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, New Jersey, OTC, United States

Nearly two months after Gov. Phil Murphy announced newly adopted rules that allow pharmacies to dispense hormonal birth control without a prescription, only about four dozen pharmacies statewide have been approved to do so, state data shows.