GOP – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

31 Dec

EPA, states could consider regulating abortion pills

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Pills, EPA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills.

30 Dec

Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill

DoryLatest NewsFertility, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, military, Reproductive rights, United States

More than eight years after my failed IUI, as federal employees have seen an expansion in their fertility benefits, TRICARE still doesn’t offer fertility coverage. A couple of weeks ago, it really looked like it would, which is why as we ring in 2026, I am thinking of the military families struggling to have a baby, for whom this new year will be off to a bitter start. They were banking on a provision in the massive defense bill signed into law by President Donald Trump just before the holidays that would have given them the same kind of access to fertility…

27 Dec

2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.

26 Dec

Trump Administration Quietly Bans Abortions for Veterans—Even After Rape or When Health is in Danger

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Sexual Assault, Trump, United States, Veterans

The Trump Administration has confirmed it is no longer providing abortion care for veterans relying on VA health care even in instances of rape, incest, or to save the health of the pregnant person. While veterans and their family members were previously able to to access abortion care in these specific circumstances, this new policy offers only a narrow and vague exception to save the life of a pregnant veteran or their family member. These kinds of exceptions to save a person’s life often don’t work in reality.

24 Dec

Proposed HHS rule on gender-affirming care radically expands use of Medicare, Medicaid as policy weapons

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, transgender health care, Trump Administration, United States

Last Thursday, the Trump administration released a proposed rule prohibiting hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding from providing any gender affirming care to minors, even when privately funded.

24 Dec

A Very Bad Year for Women’s Health

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, Women's Health

A year’s worth of reporting on the depth of damage this administration has wreaked on women’s health.

22 Dec

Opinion – Telemedicine abortion is winning — and that terrifies the right

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

The year’s headlines were consumed by doom and gloom coverage. From hits against Planned Parenthood to increasingly restrictive anti-abortion laws passing in red states, and threats to proven-safe abortion medications, the post-Roe landscape certainly appeared bleak.

15 Dec

Abortion Patients Most Often Rely On Independent Clinics, But More Closed in 2025, Report Shows

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

"We were all scrambling to figure out what we needed to do and how we were going to accept all patients."

05 Dec

Privacy concerns linger in reproductive health care despite HIPAA lawsuit’s dismissal

CoreyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, HIPPA, Privacy, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

A Biden-era protection for reproductive and gender affirming health care information was upended by a federal judge in Texas in June. Despite several lawsuits, key privacy rules for medical records remain, but some experts say they aren’t sufficient. (Photo by Dave Whitney / Getty Images)The four lawsuits at the center of a Republican-led effort to ensure law enforcement can access reproductive health records are now mostly resolved, after attorneys for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed last week to dismiss the last remaining suit challenging the legality of a foundational health privacy rule.

04 Dec

Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Speaker Johnson’s Efforts to Ban IVF for Military Members

ChaseLatest Newsanti-IVF, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, military, Reproductive rights, United States

Today, Julianne McShane with MS NOW reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson has been quietly working to remove in vitro fertilization (IVF) coverage from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for active duty military members.

30 Nov

HHS Reproductive and Sexual Health Ombuds Act of 2025

JordanLatest NewsGOP, legislation, Reproductive rights, Sexual Health, United States, US Congress

U.S. House of Representatives Act -- Full Text

26 Nov

Understanding the Trump Administration’s Negotiated Drug Prices for Medicare

RandyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just announced the prices that the federal government negotiated for 15 high-cost drugs covered by Part D, Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program, including the popular diabetes and obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. This brings to a close the second round of Medicare’s Drug Price Negotiation Program, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 under the Biden administration. These negotiated prices will take effect in Medicare in January 2027.

24 Nov

How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded

JordanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Abortion bans may not be politically feasible—but cutting funding from the clinics gets you a lot of the way there.

22 Nov

When it Comes to Women’s Health, The Trump Admin’s Hypocrisy is on Full Display

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States, Women's Health

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-hypocrisy-women-s-healthDonald Trump and his cronies are peddling lies about abortion care while touting their farce advancements for women’s health.

18 Nov

Ohio GOP lawmakers move to ban telehealth, mail-order abortion pills

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Ohio, Reproductive rights

Despite Ohioans overwhelmingly protecting access to abortion, Republican lawmakers are moving to restrict the procedure by ending telehealth prescriptions and mail-order pills. The sponsors say they aren’t specifically targeting abortion, but the increase in drugs available through the mail.