Contraception – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

25 Mar

Virginia joins states challenging Trump admin regulations that limit free birth control access

RileyLatest NewsContraception, Democratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Virginia lawmakers are also pursuing a state-level right to contraception proposal that Democratic Gov. Spanberger could sign into law this year.

24 Mar

Thailand uses birth control vaccine to curb elephant population near expanding farms

RileyLatest NewsAnimal Control, Contraception, Thailand

Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on wild elephants to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other — an issue in areas where farms spread into forests and elephants are squeezed out of their natural habitat.

21 Mar

Millions of Americans are about to lose access to birth control. Why?

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

Untold numbers will get sick as a result. Clinics are scrambling, and no one seems to be able to explain why this is happening

20 Mar

Birth control clinics rush to reapply for funding after receiving new Trump admin guidance

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

Federally-funded clinics that provide contraception and other reproductive health services have one week to apply for new grants after the Trump administration released long-delayed guidance Friday night. Current funding runs out April 1.

17 Mar

US pulls away from family planning. What about the $600M saved for it?

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

Despite Congress approving $607.5 million for family planning, new U.S. policies are reshaping how global health funding is spent.

16 Mar

This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control

FlynnLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A newly discovered molecular “switch” supercharges sperm — and could revolutionize both fertility care and male contraception.

16 Mar

VG Senator Warner, Colleagues Demand HHS Immediately Release Title X Funding

FlynnLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, HHS, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration

Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined 38 colleagues in sending a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding that HHS take immediate action to protect Americans’ uninterrupted access to comprehensive family planning and services by awarding a one-year full funding extension for all current Title X grantees.

12 Mar

‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federal government continues to delay the funding process.

11 Mar

NAACP Files Amicus Brief to Support Access to Affordable Contraception

DoryLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, NAACP, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The NAACP signed on to an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President United States of America, et al. In the case, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are challenging regulations enacted during the first Trump administration that expanded the religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit. The exemptions allow employers or universities to impose religious or moral beliefs on their employees and students – blocking them from accessing affordable contraception.

10 Mar

Michigan AG Nessel Defends Access to Birth Control and Other Contraceptive Care

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Michigan, Reproductive rights, United States

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (PDF) challenging the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations undermining the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious and moral exemptions to allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and services.

09 Mar

Contraceptive vaccine reduces fertility in animals to address wildlife overpopulation

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Reproductive rights, United States, Wildlife

Patent-pending vaccine stimulates lasting immune response that addresses limitations of current models

08 Mar

AU (American’s United) & allies urge court to protect birth control access from broad religious exemptions

JordanLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, joined by the National Women’s Law Center and over 60 reproductive rights, civil rights, religious and other social justice organizations, urged the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm that overly broad religious exemptions shouldn’t be used to undermine nationwide access to birth control.

02 Mar

2025 State Legislation on Birth Control: Attacks Continue but State Advocates Work to Protect and Expand Contraceptive Access

AlanLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, Women's Law Center

Everyone should have access to the birth control they want or need, when they want or need it, without any barriers. This is especially important for young people, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community.1 However, when the Supreme Court unjustly overturned Roe v. Wade, it not only took away people’s constitutional right to abortion, but also laid the groundwork to eliminate the right to birth control.2 In the years that have followed, both the right and access to contraception have been increasingly under threat.3

27 Feb

Holding the Trump Administration Accountable for Wasting Millions of Dollars of Birth Control

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Trump administration will let tens of millions of dollars’ worth of contraception paid for by taxpayers expire rather than distribute it as foreign aid. The contraception, representing a value of at least $10 million and possibly as much as $40 million, was earmarked for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa—where its loss could result in more than a million unintended pregnancies and thousands of maternal deaths. Multiple humanitarian organizations have offered to buy the birth control, but the administration has refused.

26 Feb

New reproductive health vending machine opens in Indianapolis, offering access to free health essentials

RileyLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Indiana, Reproductive rights, Vending Machines

A range of reproductive health products and other essentials, all free of charge, for anyone in need. That's what a new vending machine on the north side is offering to those in the community.