REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS – Page 61 – Updated daily. A service of Toby's Fund for Reproductive Health Equity

05 Mar

Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland’s 2024 ballot

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Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland's 2024 ballot BALTIMORE - Abortion rights will be on the Maryland ballot in 2024. Abortions are legal in Maryland. However, state lawmakers last year passed an amendment that would enshrine the right to an abortion, and "reproductive freedom," in Maryland's constitution.

04 Mar

Threats to health care sector targets likely to stay ‘elevated’ amid cultural wars: DHS

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Threats to health care locations and those who work there are surging and are likely to stay "elevated," as a result of cultural and divisive issues like abortion, gender-related care and a hangover from debates caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, federal intelligence analysts said.

03 Mar

Alabama passes IVF protections while red states still push ‘personhood’ abortion laws

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All but six state legislatures are now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative roundup.

02 Mar

Telehealth abortions on the rise since Dobbs, new report shows

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Researchers studying national abortion trends found that in the 15 months since Roe v. Wade fell, abortion rates remained elevated despite more limited access throughout the U.S., according to the Society of Family Planning’s latest #WeCount report.

01 Mar

CVS, Walgreens to begin selling abortion pill this month

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CVS and Walgreens, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, will start selling abortion pill mifepristone at stores in several states this month, drawing praise from President Joe Biden who has made access to abortion a key election campaign issue.

29 Feb

Missouri AG accuses Planned Parenthood of trafficking minors for abortions

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"Planned Parenthood traffics minors across states lines to obtain secret abortions, Missouri’s attorney general claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday. Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, filed the suit in Boone County circuit court seeking an order stopping the actions. “This is the beginning of the end for Planned Parenthood in the state of Missouri,” Bailey said in a statement. “What they conceal and conspire to do in the dark of night has now been uncovered. I am filing suit to ensure it never happens again.”..."

28 Feb

Missouri advocates gather signatures for abortion legalization, but GOP hurdle looms

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"Missouri abortion rights supporters have faced a grueling road over the past couple of years. Minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, Missouri GOP officials triggered a near total ban on the procedure — with no exceptions for rape or incest, only some medical emergencies. Abortion rights activists mobilized across the country, launching efforts to take the issue of abortion directly to voters via ballot initiatives...."

28 Feb

US Senate Republicans block Democrats’ bill assuring right to IVF

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Democrats on Wednesday failed in an attempt to rush legislation through the U.S. Senate guaranteeing Americans' access to in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies, after an Alabama court designated frozen embryos as children.

27 Feb

What counts as an exception to South Dakota’s abortion ban? A video may soon explain

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"South Dakota lawmakers want state officials to create an educational video to help doctors understand when they can end a pregnancy without risking prison time under the state's near-total abortion ban. It's an example of how states are responding to the national controversy over what exceptions to abortion bans actually mean. Critics point to reports of women developing dangerous complications after hospitals in states with strict abortion laws refused to terminate their pregnancies..."

26 Feb

Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committee

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"Sitting at her computer one day in late December, Dr. Sarah Osmundson mustered her best argument to approve an abortion for a suffering patient. The woman was 14 weeks pregnant when she learned her fetus was developing without a skull. This increased the likelihood of a severe buildup of amniotic fluid, which could cause her uterus to rupture and possibly kill her. Osmundson, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who helps patients navigate high-risk pregnancies, knew that outcome was uncommon, but she had seen it happen...."

25 Feb

Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women’

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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, is launching a series of new advertisements in Republican states targeting Republican efforts to criminalize having an abortion and “a war on travel” for reproductive care.

24 Feb

‘We knew’: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that embryos are people, imperiling in vitro fertilization, shocked many Americans. But the decision was vindicating for abortion rights activists who have warned for years that the fall of Roe v. Wade would put other forms of reproductive health care on the chopping block.

23 Feb

Planned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to rule on constitutional right to abortion

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"Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether the state’s constitution protects a person’s right to abortion. The organization announced it is filing a petition with the court during a press conference on Thursday...."

22 Feb

Are Maryland prisons out of bounds with federal requirements for trans prisoners?

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Nearly a year after formerly incarcerated transgender people testified to Maryland lawmakers about the troubling conditions they faced in state prisons and Baltimore jails, the agency in charge of their care continues to violate federal standards in how it houses trans prisoners, according to a coalition of trans rights advocates.

22 Feb

Jill Biden Announces $100 Million for Research on Women’s Health

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First Lady Jill Biden on Wednesday announced $100 million in federal funding to fuel research into women's health. “We will build a health care system that puts women and their lived experiences at its center,” Biden said in a White House news release announcing the initiative. “Where no woman or girl has to hear that ‘it’s all in your head,’ or, ‘it’s just stress.’” Where women aren’t just an afterthought, but a first thought. Where women don’t just survive with chronic conditions, but lead long and healthy lives.”