Pat – Page 8 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

03 Jul

Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states

PatLatest NewsAbortion ballot measure, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, United States

For abortion rights supporters in Florida, it was a tumultuous day of highs and lows. On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court paved the way for the state to ban nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. But it also OK’d a ballot measure that would allow Florida voters to overturn the ban this November.

02 Jul

Tennessee Abortion Allies Fight Trafficking Ban for Minors

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Minors, Tennessee, travel

A new Tennessee law that criminalizes a wide range of conduct intended to help pregnant minors get legal abortions in other states without their parents’ consent is unconstitutional, a group of abortion allies says. SisterReach Inc. and (Chicago based ) Midwest Access Coalition Inc. sued Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) and various district prosecuting attorneys on Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, seeking to have the law declared invalid and to bar potential future prosecutions against them. .

22 Jun

Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, legislation, South Dakota, United States

Proposed South Dakota constitutional amendment being challenged in court

22 Jun

Now an Abortion Rights Advocate, Woman Raped by Stepfather as a Child Will Campaign With First Lady

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A 22-year-old woman who's become a vocal reproductive rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady Jill Biden in Pennsylvania this weekend

21 Jun

The political landscape remains unsettled two years post-Roe

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Roe v Wade, United States

Two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republicans are still grappling with the political downsides of deferring to states on abortion policy.

20 Jun

Democratic women in U.S. Senate target Project 2025 on reproductive rights

PatLatest NewsComstock law, Healthcare, Minnesota, Reproductive rights, United States

Senate Democrats held a press conference this week to stand up for reproductive rights and freedoms, criticizing a plan by a conservative think tank that if adopted would hinder abortion and contraception access in a Trump administration.

17 Jun

Reproductive rights organizations: “Human beings are dying” because of state policies

PatLatest NewsAbortion Care, Alabama, Healthcare, IVF

Reproductive healthcare advocacy organizations sound alarm about negative trends in Alabama healthcare, blaming recent restrictions on abortion and IVF

12 Jun

Billboard campaign aims attention at fund for out-of-state care

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, legislation, Nebraska, United States

Opponents of abortion-rights amendment push call ads deceptive

11 Jun

Access to reproductive care inspires many doctors to run for office

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, legislation, Medical Doctors, Reproductive rights, United States

Doctors are running for office in an effort to bring their medical expertise to the debate over reproductive rights. With Trump and Biden nearly even in national polls, will it be enough?

04 Jun

Nearly a thousand fewer doctors applied to come to Utah this year. The state’s abortion rules may be to blame.

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Medical Deserts, OB/GYNS, United States, Utah

“State governments and health care leaders need to consider the potential impact of those [policy] decisions on the physician workforce,” the health care think tank wrote in their report.

03 Jun

States are already collecting more abortion data. And HIPAA won’t always keep it private.

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Tracking, United States

As states pass laws mandating more information, experts warn of privacy concerns

28 May

Forced sterilizations for people with disabilities decried by members of Congress

PatLatest Newslegislation, People With Disabilities, Sterilization, United States

Three members of Congress introduced a resolution Thursday that’s intended to bring attention to the experiences and challenges people with disabilities face when it comes to reproductive rights. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley announced the resolution during a press conference with advocates just steps from the U.S. Capitol, saying that under a Supreme Court ruling still in effect, people with disabilities can be sterilized without their consent.

27 May

Commentary: Missouri lawmakers chose anti-abortion antics over helping children and families

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, legislation, Missouri, Opinion, United States

Missouri’s legislative session closed with a sad and stunning display of how little the loudest lawmakers identifying as “pro-life” care about helping children and families — or governing at all.

17 May

Private Programs Provide Access to Birth Control. They Can Also Deprive Women of Choice

PatLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Rights, Undocumented person, United States

If you’re an undocumented immigrant in Tennessee, you don’t have a lot of options when it comes to birth control. You can’t get an abortion—it’s been banned with very limited exceptions since 2022. You can’t get services from state public-health clinics, which lost federal funding with the abortion ban. The state has backfilled the funding, but a Tennessee law prohibits that money from being used for family-planning services for people without legal status.https://time.com/6978873/step-ahead-birth-control/

15 May

The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Birth Rate, legislation, North Dakota, Tennessee, United States

Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline analysis of provisional federal data on births. In California, births dropped by 5%, or nearly 20,000, for the year. And as is the case in most other states, there will be repercussions now and later for schools and the workforce, said Hans Johnson, a senior fellow…