Abortion Rights – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

09 Jul

Supporters of ballot measure to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban turn in nearly 110K signatures

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Democrats, election issue, Idaho, Reproductive rights

Idahoans United for Women and Families says initiative proposal will appear on November’s general election ballot

06 Jul

4 surprising things to know about abortion in America since Dobbs

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, States, Trump, United States

It's been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion.

04 Jul

MA Congresswoman Pressley Issues Call to Action on Fourth Anniversary of Devasting Supreme Court Dobbs Decision, Engages & Uplifts Families Harmed by Republicans Denial of Life-Saving Abortion Care

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-Abortion GOP, Democrats, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Co-Chair of the Reproductive Freedom Caucus, marks the somber fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision through engaging with and uplifting families harmed by Republicans’ denial of life-saving abortion care.

03 Jul

Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act Initiative (2026)

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Idaho, legislation, Reproductive rights, Vote!

The Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act Initiative may appear on the ballot in Idaho as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2026.

03 Jul

Medication Abortion Is Under Threat in the Courts and at the FDA

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, FDA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Later this year, a Louisiana judge, the FDA, or the DOJ could all shut down telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone. That’s how most people in ban states get care.

02 Jul

The looming threats to abortion access in 2026

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In recent years, antiabortion groups and lawmakers have seeded a number of challenges to medication abortion. This year, several are coming to fruition.

28 Jun

Four Years Post-Dobbs, Clinic Closures and Attacks on Medication Abortion Harm Women of Color Nationwide

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

Four years since the Supreme Court eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, anti-abortion politicians have ramped up their attacks. Extremists in state legislatures, state attorneys general offices, federal courts, Congress, and the White House are targeting abortion access on every front to make it more difficult for pregnant people to get the reproductive care they need: banning abortion outright, defunding and shuttering reproductive health clinics, blocking telehealth abortion, and restricting medication abortion pills.

25 Jun

Gallup: Changes in U.S. Abortion Opinions Persist 4 Years After Roe v. Wade Fell

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Gallup, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A new Gallup poll suggests that a realignment in Americans’ views of abortion that began when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade may be the new normal four years later.

23 Jun

Trump Administration Quietly Takes Step Toward Giving Rights to Embryos

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

“Fetal Personhood” is a Key Tactic of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Strategy to Undermine IVF, Abortion, and Other Types of Reproductive Health Care

21 Jun

Care Not Control: Repression & Youth Resistance

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Privacy, Reproductive rights, teenagers, Youth

We are socialized to believe that laws, police, courts, child protective services, juvenile detention centers, and prisons protect us. But this same criminal legal system is often used to punish and instill fear in our communities—forcing us into restrictive gender and social rules. Today, surveillance systems are used to track youth. This isn’t meant to keep them safe. It is meant to mark them as the next target.

21 Jun

Idaho federal judge to decide on lawsuit seeking to increase medical abortion exemptions

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Idaho, Reproductive rights

An Idaho federal judge will weigh whether there are cases in which abortions could be allowed in health-threatening, but not fatal circumstances — a situation that is not explicitly protected under Idaho’s abortion ban.

20 Jun

Nevada’s Cortez Masto Leads Effort to Protect the Right of Women to Cross State Lines to Seek Abortion Care

MadisonLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democrats, Female Democratic Congresspeople, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Dobbs decision, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) re-introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. This legislation would block anti-choice states and localities from limiting travel for abortion services and empower impacted individuals to bring civil action against those who restrict a woman’s right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care

20 Jun

Nine days in June

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, SCOTUS, United States

As we await the usual late-June flurry of decisions – some of them quite significant – I wanted to reflect on what I believe to be the most extraordinary June in the modern Supreme Court, which took place four years ago in 2022. In decisions between June 21 and June 30, the court overruled Roe v. Wade, greatly expanded the scope of gun rights, dramatically weakened the wall separating church and state, and imposed a significant new limit on the power of federal administrative agencies.

18 Jun

Trump Administration Wields New Threat to Reproductive Rights

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Blue State, Federal Funding, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, Weldon Amendment

Denied and Delayed Abortion Care Puts Health and Lives in US at Risk

16 Jun

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

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Red States, Trump Administration, United States

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.