conception – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

01 Jul

Locked Away and Left to Expire: The Trump Administration’s Destructive Denial of Contraceptive Care

PhoenixLatest Newsconception, Global, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, Wasted Funds

The Trump administration has wasted $434,317 in taxpayer dollars since January 2025 to store contraceptives that it refuses to distribute to women and girls in low-income countries. A report from the Office of Inspector General of US Agency for International Development (USAID) reveals that the administration has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in storage and transportation costs for the $9.7 million worth of family planning supplies that it abandoned in Belgium rather than allowing them to be used. (The supplies were originally purchased by USAID.) With every additional month that passes after June 2026, the administration will spend over $24,000 to…

17 Jun

Texas Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Moves To Force Vote To Guarantee the Right to Contraception

MadisonLatest Newsconception, Democratic, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) filed a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on her bill, the Right to Contraception Act, H.R. 999, to guarantee by law the right to contraception. A discharge petition is a legislative tool in the House of Representatives that allows a majority of members to force a bill to the floor for a vote by the full chamber, even if the Speaker of the House opposes it.

06 Jun

Missouri birth control access bill clears legislature after years of obstacles

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, conception, Healthcare, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights

After decades spent working with people seeking abortions, Allison Hile said one thing became clear: Some Missouri lawmakers have little understanding of what women go through to prevent pregnancy.

18 May

Birth Control Under Threat: How Birth Control Rights and Access Are Being Undermined Since Roe v. Wade Was Overturned

PhoenixLatest Newsconception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In June 2022, the National Women’s Law Center published “Don’t Be Fooled: Birth Control Is Already at Risk,” the first comprehensive accounting of policymakers’ attacks on birth control in recent years.1 In addition to identifying the range of ways anti-reproductive health lawmakers were already threatening birth control, the Law Center warned that attacks on birth control would only escalate if the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion. Unfortunately, those were prescient warnings.

28 Apr

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine

AlanLatest Newsconception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump, United States

First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands forhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/trump-title-x-contraception-program-pronatalist

22 Mar

Reproductive health clinics scramble as Title X funding cliff approaches

PhoenixLatest Newsconception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

A group of 128 Democratic members of Congress is calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall for reproductive health clinics in less than two weeks.

03 Mar

Trump administration distorting science on safety of FDA-approved contraception, former FDA officials tell Appeals Court

ChaseLatest Newsconception, FDA, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Three former Food and Drug Administration officials say the Trump administration distorted the science on the safety of FDA-approved contraceptives when it published final rules expanding religious or moral exemptions for employers who want to deny their employees no-cost contraceptive coverage as provided for in the Affordable Care Act.

02 Nov

The science of conception is clear

AlanLatest Newsconception, Healthcare, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, United States

Regarding the article “Abortion issue key in retention vote” (Oct. 26): Science is a prime value in American culture. At least a dozen embryology texts, dating from 1887 (Quimby, I.N. Address at the 38th Annual Meeting of the A.M.A.: ”the life of the foetus commences at the moment of conception”) to 1964 (Guttmacher, A.F. et al in “Planning Your Family,” p. 36: “Fertilization, then, has taken place; a baby has been conceived”) refer to fertilization as the beginning of a new life.

08 Jul

Why we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children

AlanLatest Newsconception, IVF, Opinion, United States, US Senate

Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power.