GOP – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

23 Mar

Abortion on the 2026 Ballot: The Evolving Landscape of State Abortion Initiatives

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling, state ballot initiatives have become a powerful tool used by advocates on both sides hoping to either protect or limit abortion access in their state.

22 Mar

U.S. Repro Watch: Six Updates You Won’t Want to Miss

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

The Center for Reproductive Rights is representing a Texas midwife sued for supposedly performing illegal abortions.

17 Mar

New Attacks on Medication Abortion Distort the Reality of Reproductive Coercion

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

As abortion bans and restrictions proliferated after the fall of Roe, medication abortion, and telehealth abortion care in particular, have become some of the most common and critical ways that people can still access care. In an effort to eliminate these remaining points of access, the anti-abortion movement has launched a campaign of misinformation, junk science, and aberrant policies to try to restrict access to medication abortion.

12 Mar

Trump Admin Must Provide Answers for Horrifying Treatment of Pregnant ICE Detainees

DoryLatest NewsCenter for Reproductive Rights, GOP, Healthcare, ICE, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Multiple pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women have shared ghastly stories of mistreatment and neglect at the hands of ICE agents

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.

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.

07 Mar

Virginia’s Bedford County supervisor files suit challenging reproductive rights constitutional amendment

JordanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States, Virginia

Lawsuit claims abortion ballot initiative is invalid because Virginia’s House of Delegates did not distribute it to all circuit court clerks and post it for public inspection three months prior to the 2025 House of Delegates election.

06 Mar

CA Attorney General Bonta Continues to Defend Contraceptive Access from Trump Administration Attacks

JordanLatest NewsCalifornia, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania and New Jersey concerning reproductive rights. Specifically, the brief backs the two states in opposing the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations that undermine the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious exemptions and create moral exemptions that allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and…

04 Mar

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

JordanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, ICE, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, Undocumented, United States

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from some of the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.

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.

02 Mar

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month's end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid.

02 Mar

Anti Reproductive Health Executive Actions

AlanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch will serve as a repository of key Trump administration policies related to reproductive health, including those impacting abortion access, maternal health, and assisted reproduction. This resource will track executive actions such as Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, Proclamations, and Statements of Administration Policy as well as significant agency actions, guidance, and memoranda. It will also monitor ongoing rulemaking, highlighting relevant regulations and opportunities for public input.

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

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.

01 Mar

Recent Policy Proposals Could Weaken the Reproductive Health Safety Net as More People Become Uninsured

PhoenixLatest NewsACA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, Uninsured, United States

Multiple policy changes resulting from Congressional action, Trump administration efforts, and a Supreme Court decision will significantly weaken the family planning safety net at a time when there will be increasing demand for safety-net providers in every state due to growth in the number of uninsured Americans. The 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law is projected to result in significant growth in the uninsured rate over the next decade through loss of Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage. Among women of reproductive age on Medicaid, 8 million (36%) are eligible through the ACA coverage expansion and could be at…