Anti-abortion – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

16 Apr

She Was Put in Jail in Texas for an Abortion. Blame the Supreme Court for What Happened Next.

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP majority, Healthcare, misogyny, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, conservative states have stressed that they won’t prosecute women, whom they describe as abortion’s “second victims.” That was the message Texas hoped to send when prosecutors in Starr County dropped charges against a woman named Lizelle Herrera for ending her pregnancy. But Herrera’s case is now communicating something else entirely: Prosecutors who target women for abortion often won’t face any consequences, even when they ignore the law.

16 Apr

Doctors oppose myriad of ‘extremist’ abortion bills in Ohio Statehouse

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, GOP Governor, Healthcare, Ohio, Reproductive rights

Lawmakers remain on break for the rest of this month, but recent legislation still under consideration is getting new criticism from physicians around the state. 150 Ohio doctors, organized by a national group called the Committee to Protect Health Care, have signed a letter strongly opposing a flurry of what they call “extremist” abortion bills moving through the Statehouse.

15 Apr

As Florida restricted abortion, state’s maternal mortality committee went dark

FlynnLatest NewsAnti-abortion, DeSantis, Florida, GOP Governor, Healthcare, Maternal & Child Health, Reproductive rights

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis campaigned against a 2024 ballot initiative to roll back the state's restrictive abortion laws. From DeSantis X feed. In 2025, a Fort Walton Beach woman died after developing severe pregnancy complications, leaving her firefighter husband to raise their baby girl on his own.

14 Apr

Utah’s abortion case delayed after groups challenge legislature’s new three-judge panel

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Utah

The years-long wait to settle Utah’s abortion trigger law has been delayed as multiple plaintiffs in some of the state’s highest-profile cases challenge new laws with the Utah Supreme Court, which moves their cases to new three-judge panels.

14 Apr

Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, toward conception

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027.

13 Apr

Government favors natural family planning over contraception in key health funding

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

New 2027 guidelines by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will ban key federal abortion funding while favoring fertility education and natural family planning.

04 Mar

Vance, Johnson and others speak at anti-abortion March for Life in Washington

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Vice President JD Vance encouraged anti-abortion activists to "take heart in how far we've come" on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration's accomplishments including an expansion of a ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services.

01 Mar

Reproductive health providers targeted by Trump ask for additional state funding

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Maine, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In order to protect Maine’s reproductive health care system, which has lost millions in federal funding over the last year, lawmakers are considering legislation to provide additional state support to protect against future changes.

09 Feb

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Anti-abortion conservatives have long sought to force Planned Parenthood’s clinics to close their doors and to make it harder, if not impossible, to get abortion pills as part of a two-pronged approach to limit access to abortion.

23 Jan

Why Medication Abortion Is the Top Target for Anti-Abortion Groups in 2026

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

This week would have marked the 53rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide — that is, until 2022, when the court overturned it. Since then, abortion has been banned in 13 states and severely limited in 10 others.

17 Jan

A pregnant woman at risk of heart failure couldn’t get urgent treatment. She died waiting for an abortion.

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, North Carolina, Reproductive rights, United States

In North Carolina, a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Ciji Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.

16 Jan

Republican senators urge more regulations on abortion pill in Senate hearing

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues its review of the abortion pill mifepristone, Republican lawmakers are repeating calls for stronger federal regulations of the drug.

27 Dec

2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.

21 Dec

How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Far Right Agenda, Healthcare, Project 2025, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government. As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document’s 920 pages.

02 Dec

Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Fake Clinicws, Healthcare, United States

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into believing the centers offered abortions. The case highlights an effort to crack down on so-called crisis pregnancy centers. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/rise-of-crisis-pregnancy-centers-highlights-shift-in-anti-abortion-movement