REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS – Page 31 – Updated daily. A service of Toby's Fund for Reproductive Health Equity

05 Oct

Opinion: In the US, rats could soon have better birth-control access than women

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

New York is pushing birth control to curb its rodent problem – at a time when women’s reproductive rights in other US states are under attack. Oh, the irony

04 Oct

‘How do you treat a person who isn’t the standard in this post-Roe world?’

PatLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Abortion patients, new report highlight barriers to accessing care despite Virginia’s fewer restrictions.

03 Oct

VP Debate: What Vance and Walz had to say about abortion and immigration

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, vice presidential debate

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance squared off Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate and, unsurprisingly, they were miles apart when it came to abortion and immigration policy.

03 Oct

It’s harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

PatLatest 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.

02 Oct

A new Louisiana law requires abortion meds to be locked in a cabinet, even if needed for emergency care

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Legislation, abortion medication, Abortion Pills, emergency care, first-in-the-nation law, locked cabinet, Louisiana, Miscarriage, United States

“Louisiana’s first-in-the-nation law listing the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol as “controlled dangerous substances” took effect Tuesday, triggering fears among health-care providers and pharmacists that routine care may be worsened for women in the state. Beyond abortion, the medicines are used for miscarriage management and, in misoprostol’s case, to stop dangerous bleeding after childbirth, physicians say. Now, in Louisiana,misoprostol is required to be stored in a locked box like other controlled substances, which doctors fear could delay treatment in emergency situations….”

02 Oct

Trump vows to veto any federal abortion ban — after previously refusing to commit

MollyLatest News, United Statesfederal abortion ban, Presideial campaign, Trump, twitter, United States, Veto, vice presidential debate

“Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would veto a federal abortion ban after previously declining to say whether he would do so. “Everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it, because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of the their voters,” Trump wrote in an all-caps message he posted across social media platforms as his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), was pressed on the issue during the vice presidential debate….”

01 Oct

Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Maryland, Medicaid, Reproductive rights

Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion There’s a wonky, long-running and almost entirely under-the-radar hitch that makes it harder for some women in Maryland to get an abortion.

01 Oct

Georgia judge declares state’s abortion ban unconstitutional, allowing procedure to resume beyond 6 weeks into pregnancy

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Georgia, Judge, legislation, six weeks, unconstitutional, United States

“A Georgia judge has struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, declaring it unconstitutional. In a ruling issued on Monday, Judge Robert McBurney said Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, or LIFE Act, infringes on a woman’s state constitutional rights….”

30 Sep

IVF Restrictions, Demise of Roe v. Wade Could Endanger Women’s Health Research

BarbraLatest NewsIVF, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Science

Women are already underrepresented in clinical trials; the new abortion and IVF laws could make it worse.

30 Sep

Florida abortion law: vague, not scientifically defined, deadly

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Constitutional Amendment, Florida, Opinion, Reproductive rights, Vote

Commentary Think you should be able to choose whether to have that baby or not? Prefer not to die because you can’t get the right medical care? Unless citizens vote to change the Florida Constitution to enshrine reproductive rights, you must avoid this state as if it were an abusive ex. Florida is a danger to women. Amendment 4 would allow abortion up to viability. The existing limit is six weeks.

29 Sep

Women’s health advocates fear restricted abortion access in PA

PatLatest 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

PatLatest 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

PatLatest 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.

27 Sep

Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, OB-GYN, Post-Dobbs, Vote, Wisconsin

The Dobbs backlash could send an abortion provider to Congress.

27 Sep

‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’

AlanLatest NewsComstock law, Reproductive rights, Vote

Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past