Anti-abortion – Page 2 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

06 Jul

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

JordanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, anti-IVF, GOP, Healthcare, United States

Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

02 Jul

Keeping brain-dead pregnant women on life support raises ethical issues that go beyond abortion politics

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Care, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, United States

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to support her developing fetus. On June 13, 2025, her premature baby, named Chance, was born via cesarean section at 25 weeks.

27 Jun

Advocates warn SCOTUS ruling could limit health care access for CT women

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood decision could limit health care access for Connecticut women, advocates said Thursday, as it opens the door for Congress, now considering the federal budget, to remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid.

24 Jun

Federal anti-abortion crusade endangers New Jersey protections, advocates warn

ChaseLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Dobbs v Jackson, Healthcare, New Jersey, Reproductive rights

Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion three years ago in a landmark ruling known as Dobbs, the national conversation on reproductive rights has centered on states that have banned or restricted the procedure.

24 Jun

Anti-abortion group targets Democrats to stop Va.’s reproductive rights constitutional amendment

ChaseLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Women Speak Out Virginia is sending 100 people out to knock on 150,000 doors in Richmond and Virginia Beach between now and late July. Their aim: influence voters to elect candidates this fall who oppose a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine reproductive rights into Virginia’s constitution.

10 Jun

Texas’ abortion bans are here to stay despite narrow clarification

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Anti-abortion, legislation, Texas

Legal challenges have failed, elections haven’t moved the needle and the fight for a narrow clarification shows how immovable these laws are.

04 Jun

Trump administration rescinds emergency abortion guidance

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

The Trump administration has rescinded guidance telling health care workers who provide abortions to save their patients’ lives that they are protected under federal law.

23 May

Fake Pregnancy Clinics Are a Threat to Real Care

ChaseLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Mexico has sued Google after the tech giant updated its maps to reflect a U.S. House resolution attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”. In response, President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken legal action over this violation of Mexico’s sovereign rights. What might seem like a frivolous renaming stunt is actually part of a broader pattern: a refusal to face reality, and a habit of using language to distort power.

21 May

Her miscarriage showed the limits of California’s abortion protections. Where you live matters

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, California, Catholic Hospitals, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Anna Nusslock never wanted to be the face of a new kind of reproductive rights battle in California, but when a small Catholic hospital refused to provide an abortion that would end her miscarriage, Nusslock girded herself for a long and difficult conflict.

21 May

House GOP Moves to Repeal FACE Act Days After Clinic Bombing

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Clinics, GOP, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Today, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a markup on a slate of bills, including one from Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, that would repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. This critical law protects patients and providers from violence, threats, and obstruction at reproductive health facilities.

18 May

Case of a brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support is ‘gut-wrenching,’ advocates say

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Adriana Smith’s case is the latest instance in which Georgia’s six-week abortion ban and its impacts on Black women have raised serious concerns.

05 May

Alabama Can’t Prosecute Groups Helping Patients Get Abortions Elsewhere, Judge Rules

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Alabama, Anti-abortion, Reproductive rights, travel, United States

Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute — or threaten to prosecute — people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by traveling to another state.

04 May

Hey, Texas! We’ll take your women’s healthcare doctors if you don’t want them, N.J. says.

ChaseLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, New Jersey, NJ vs. TX, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

New Jersey is appealing to frustrated reproductive health providers in the Lone Star State with four billboards encouraging obstetricians, gynecologists and other providers of women’s health care to relocate.

30 Apr

Trump Restores Title X Funding for Two Anti-Abortion States — While Wiping It Out Elsewhere

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Oklahoma, Reproductive rights, Tennesee, Title X

The Trump administration quietly restored federal family planning money to Tennessee and Oklahoma, despite court rulings that the states weren’t entitled to funds because they refused to provide women information about terminating pregnancies or abortion referrals on request.

27 Apr

Louisiana ponders IVF protections that anti-abortion groups oppose

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, IVF, Louisiana, Reproductive rights

A Louisiana lawmaker says he wants to avoid the scenario that unfolded last year in Alabama, where clinics offering in vitro fertilization closed their doors rather than risk legal liability based on a new interpretation of a 19th century law. The matter has pitted some conservative Republicans, who normally take the same side on reproductive health issues, against one another. It also provides a glimpse into the national debate over IVF, which proponents fear could be threatened under Trump administration policy.