Anti-abortion – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.

18 Mar

Ohio anti-abortion rights lobby files complaint against company for telehealth abortion services

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Conflict of Interest, Ohio, Reproductive rights, United States

State defers to Ohio State Medical Board, of which the president of Ohio Right to Life is a board member

13 Mar

OB/GYNs Walk Away From Anti-Abortion States

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, OB-GYN, Reproductive rights, United States

They compared the number of those specialists to state-level abortion policy data collected using a legislation tracker maintained by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit sexual and reproductive rights advocacy group. Researchers specifically focused on 12 states that restricted abortion most following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 -- Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

10 Mar

Reproductive health providers call for more state funding as federal threats loom

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Federal Government, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, States, Trump

The funding would go toward services such as routine gynecological exams, cancer screenings and gender-affirming care, but not abortion

09 Mar

Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, FACE Act, GOP, Reproductive care, Reproductive rights, Trump

For more than 30 years, there has been a federal law on the books known as the FACE Act. It prohibits intentional interference with people either providing or receiving reproductive health care services, including abortions. Now the Justice Department says it is sharply scaling back enforcement of that law. NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas looked into what this means for people on both sides of the abortion issue.

06 Mar

GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions

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

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions.

05 Mar

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.

18 Feb

Anti-abortion ‘Baby Olivia’ video could become required viewing for some schoolkids

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Propaganda, United States

Grade school students in several Republican-led states may soon be required to watch a fetal development video produced by a prominent anti-abortion group as part of their curricula. Live Action uploaded the “Baby Olivia” video featuring a British narrator and “Bridgerton”-esque background music in August 2021. It has since racked up more than 9 million views. The organization says that the clip was reviewed and accredited by a group of doctors. They are all affiliated with anti-abortion or Christian organizations: American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American College of Pediatricians, Charlotte Lozier Institute, Christian Academic Physicians and Scientists, and Christian Medical and Dental…