REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS – Page 2 – Updated daily. A service of Toby's Fund for Reproductive Health Equity

01 May

Six Reproductive Freedom Storylines to Watch in 2026

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Voters continue to reject abortion bans and support reproductive freedom champions at the ballot box; anti-abortion actors are escalating, not retreating, despite their proven unpopularity; and the human cost of abortion bans is mounting while the full damage is still untold.

30 Apr

US Abortion Restrictions Causing Preventable Deaths

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, misogyny, Preventable Deaths, Red States

State Restrictions Worsening Inequality

30 Apr

Virginia General Assembly passes law requiring insurance coverage for contraceptive care

CoreyLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

The Virginia General Assembly passes law requiring insurance coverage for contraceptive care

29 Apr

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, misogyny, Red States, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

Abortion rates have increased nationwide since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

29 Apr

South Carolina: Abortion ban advances, but SC senator vows to stop it from going further

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, South Carolina

The bill, which removes exceptions and punishes women seeking abortions, is almost certain not to be heard on the floor

28 Apr

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine

AlanLatest Newsconception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump, United States

First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands forhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/trump-title-x-contraception-program-pronatalist

28 Apr

New 50-State Survey Data: Six in Ten Americans, Including Most Religious Americans, Independents, Support Abortion Legality

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Six in ten Americans (61%) say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a new survey report published today by PRRI. Based on interviews with more than 22,000 adults conducted throughout 2025 as part of the PRRI American Values Atlas, while 36% of Americans say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases, the share of Americans who say abortion should be illegal in all cases has dropped by half since 2010, from 15% to 8% in 2025.

27 Apr

Why Reproductive Justice and Trans Liberation Are One Fight

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Trans Rights, United States

Reproductive justice and transgender liberation are deeply connected, grounded in the shared principles of bodily autonomy, self-determination, and freedom from discrimination and state violence.

27 Apr

The fight against ‘medical misogyny’ is far from over

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, misogyny, Reproductive rights

Ethnicity, culture and access continue to shape who is believed, how quickly, and with what outcome, says Vanessa Haye I welcome the relaunched women’s health strategy (Streeting relaunches women’s health strategy to tackle ‘medical misogyny’, 14 April) but with caution. The system appears responsive, but the root causes in health inequality outcomes remain untouched.

26 Apr

Title X Funding Restored, but New Rules Raise Concerns

MorganLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Federal funding for reproductive health clinics is back on track, but some new rules appear to stray from the original goals. Clinics that rely on the Title X program have now received their funding after the Trump administration delayed the application process.

26 Apr

Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, misogyny, Red States, Reproductive rights, Trump

Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman. South Dakota is the first state to enact such a law, and Missouri and Utah introduced a similar bill. Reproductive rights advocates and many OB-GYNs say the real purpose of the bills is to fortify abortion bans, and the laws are still too vague because they rely on the intentions of individual physicians.

25 Apr

One Small Pill That Created a Big Shift

MorganLatest NewsBirth Control Pills, Contraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

From boardrooms to college campuses and beyond, a single medical breakthrough expanded women’s freedom to determine if, when, and under what circumstances to have a child.

25 Apr

Scientists discover reversible male birth control that stops sperm production

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Male Contraception, Reproductive rights, Science, United States

Scientists at Cornell University may be closing in on the long-sought “holy grail” of male contraception: a safe, reversible, nonhormonal method that completely halts sperm production. In a breakthrough mouse study, researchers used a compound called JQ1 to temporarily shut down meiosis—the critical process that produces sperm—without causing lasting harm. After treatment stopped, sperm production bounced back, fertility returned, and the animals produced healthy offspring.

24 Apr

Advocacy in Action: Amer. Society for Repro. Medicine

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Anti-abortion, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, IVF, Reproductive rights, Tump, United States

Our Government Affairs team has been working on, summarize relevant federal and state legislation, and highlight the advocacy and outreach efforts of our members.

24 Apr

Medicaid rule targeting abortion providers set to expire

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump

But many clinics providing reproductive care have already closed.