Abortion Care – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Aug

A Groundbreaking U.N. Resolution Calls Forced Pregnancy What It Is: Reproductive Violence

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Reproductive violence finally has a name. How does the U.S. fit into the U.N.’s new definition?

30 Jun

Irish parliament votes to remove three-day abortion wait

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Waiting period before receiving medication was included in draft law to gain support for abortion ban in 2018 referendum

27 Jun

Abortion Rates Continue to Climb as Telehealth Reshapes Post-Dobbs America

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Abortion bans have not reduced demand for abortion, according to new #WeCount data, while telehealth has transformed how many patients obtain care.

16 Jun

Four years after the Dobbs decision, abortion access looks very different

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The Dobbs decision returned abortion policy to the states. Four years later, NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin examines how that promise has played out in practice.

06 Jun

Missouri birth control access bill clears legislature after years of obstacles

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After decades spent working with people seeking abortions, Allison Hile said one thing became clear: Some Missouri lawmakers have little understanding of what women go through to prevent pregnancy.

04 Jun

Lawsuit continues to challenge Biden-era regulation adding abortion to pregnant worker protections

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A group of Catholic ministries asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit May 18 to block a federal agency from enforcing an abortion provision in regulations meant to add workplace protections for pregnant workers.

16 May

Care Matters: Centering Patient Rights & Autonomy in Guatemala

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Contraception, abortion care, and vital reproductive health services—meeting women and girls where they are.

15 May

Medication abortion isn’t going away, even if access to mifepristone is restricted

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Access to medication abortion has changed and then changed again, leaving doctors and patients confused.

22 Apr

Judge refuses to block sending abortion pill by mail for now, but says FDA must finish review

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Ruling is setback to Louisiana effort to stifle groups that send it into states with abortion bans

21 Apr

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

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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.

20 Apr

The Trump DOJ has fired four U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted anti-abortion extremists for attacking clinics

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, Trump DOJ, United States

The Trump administration fired several U.S. Attorneys responsible for prosecuting anti-abortion extremists who attacked abortion clinics. These are the same extremists Trump pardoned last year after they were convicted by juries of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

17 Apr

Mail-order dominates US abortion pill dispensing

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U.S. pharmacies are largely filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone via mail-order in states permitting telehealth access to the medication, despite a 2023 FDA decision allowing retail pharmacies to dispense the drug, according to a published ‌study

23 Feb

CT reproductive rights caucus to push for additional abortion care protection

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Members of Connecticut’s Reproductive Rights Caucus plan to push for additional protections for abortion care this session. The group, led by State Representatives Jillian Gilchrest (D-West Hartford) and Matt Blumenthal (D-Stamford), laid out their priorities at the state capitol on Wednesday.

19 Feb

Bipartisan efforts to boost birth control access emerge as GOP keeps pushing abortion pill bans

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Republican-majority legislatures have continued to focus on abortion medication by proposing legislation to further restrict mifepristone and misoprostol. GOP lawmakers are advancing bills that would allow people to sue out-of-state abortion providers and manufacturers.

15 Feb

New Research Finds State-Level Abortion Restrictions Associated with Increased Maternal Deaths

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion restrictions, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Red States, Reproductive rights, United States

The increased number of state-level abortion restrictions in the U.S. was associated with a parallel increase in maternal deaths between 2005 and 2023, according to new research presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) 2026 Pregnancy Meeting™. Researchers found that states with five or more different abortion restrictions had higher rates of maternal deaths from any cause, cardiovascular disease, and violence than those states with fewer restrictions.