Abortion Rights – Page 8 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

13 Jul

Opinion: Trump can’t undo the damage he’s done to reproductive rights

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Try as he might, Donald Trump can’t blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy.

13 Jul

In Missouri governor race, Democratic rivals see abortion rights as path to victory over GOP

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Election 2024, Missouri, United States, Vote

Crystal Quade and Mike Hamra are facing off in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Both believe an abortion-rights amendment could help them win the governor’s mansion in November.

12 Jul

National Organization for Women hosts rally outside SCOTUS

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Protesters with the National Organization for Women gathered outside the Supreme Court on June 24 to advocate for reproductive rights, equal rights and an end to domestic violence.

12 Jul

Polish Parliament Rejects Bill Seeking to Ease Strict Abortion Law

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, International Abortion News, legislation, Poland

Poland's lower house rejected a bill on Friday that sought to scrap penalties for people who help someone to get an abortion, highlighting deep divisions in the ruling coalition over easing one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws. Under the draft law, people helping to arrange an abortion, for example by providing abortion pills, and doctors performing terminations in the early weeks of pregnancy or due to foetal anomalies would no longer have faced charges.

11 Jul

Senate Democrats brought up four more bills to protect reproductive rights. Republicans blocked them.

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, US Senate

All but two Republicans voted against a nonbinding bill that would have affirmed protections for abortion.

11 Jul

House GOP funding bill in danger over DC reproductive rights rider

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, House of Representatives, legislation

A Republican effort to target a Washington, D.C., law aimed at protecting employees’ reproductive rights is endangering a spending bill GOP leadership hopes to pass later this month.

10 Jul

THE ABORTION FIGHT GOES LOCAL Becerra fears abortion fight is the ‘painful’ start to an erosion of U.S. freedoms

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In February, the secretary of health and human services traveled to Alabama, where he witnessed firsthand the fallout from a local court decision that temporarily banned in vitro fertilization

09 Jul

Reproductive rights go off the map

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Monitoring, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Privacy, United States

Top House Democrats are releasing their version of a bill that would make it illegal for companies and service providers to collect cellphone location data for patients seeking reproductive or gender affirming care. It’s the latest move by Democratic lawmakers to bolster abortion protections here with the possibility of Republican Donald Trump winning the White House in November looming.

08 Jul

Abortion and the 2024 Election: A Video Primer

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Election 2024, Post-Dobbs, United States

More than a dozen states are weighing abortion-related ballot measures to be decided this fall, most of which would protect abortion rights if passed. KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner and Rachana Pradhan explain what’s at stake in the 2024 election, both at the national and state levels.

06 Jul

Abortion surveillance isn’t new but monitoring has increased post Dobbs, activists say

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Monitoring, Abortion Rights, Post-Dobbs, Surveillance

Abortion surveillance is something former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has said is up to states. But for abortion providers and advocates, surveillance and monitoring by anti-abortion activists has long been the reality. And post-Dobbs many states are actively trying to expand government surveillance.

05 Jul

Kansas’ top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering a state right to abortion access

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The Kansas Supreme Court has struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care providers and banning a common second-trimester procedure

03 Jul

Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states

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For abortion rights supporters in Florida, it was a tumultuous day of highs and lows. On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court paved the way for the state to ban nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. But it also OK’d a ballot measure that would allow Florida voters to overturn the ban this November.

02 Jul

Tennessee Abortion Allies Fight Trafficking Ban for Minors

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Minors, Tennessee, travel

A new Tennessee law that criminalizes a wide range of conduct intended to help pregnant minors get legal abortions in other states without their parents’ consent is unconstitutional, a group of abortion allies says. SisterReach Inc. and (Chicago based ) Midwest Access Coalition Inc. sued Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) and various district prosecuting attorneys on Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, seeking to have the law declared invalid and to bar potential future prosecutions against them. .

02 Jul

Abortion rights groups file suit to overturn ban on taxpayer-funded abortions

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Rights, Constitutional Protections, Lawsuit, Medicaid, Michigan, Reproductive Freedom, taxpayer-funded, United States

"The ACLU Michigan announced Thursday it had filed a suit challenging Michigan’s ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion and related care, arguing the ban violates the state’s newly enacted constitutional protections for reproductive freedom. The suit, filed alongside the law firm Goodwin Procter on behalf of YWCA Kalamazoo, which offers financial assistance to help people pay for abortion care and related costs. According to a statement from ACLU Michigan, 77% of those who YWCA Kalamazoo provides with this assistance have incomes that qualify them for Medicaid. The suit argues the ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion violates the right to reproductive freedom…

29 Jun

Trump made false claims about ‘late-term abortion’ during the debate, experts say

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Late Term, Lies, Trump

On Thursday, Trump repeated claims he made in 2016 regarding late-in-pregnancy abortions during a debate against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.