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The Trump administration wants women to have more babies

The Trump administration has been soliciting ideas for ways to entice Americans to have more children, according to a report in the New York Times, in an effort to combat what it sees as a crisis of falling birth rates in the U.S. Some of the proposals reportedly being floated: a $5,000 cash “baby bonus,” government-funded educational programs on menstrual cycles, and a “National Medal of Motherhood” awarded to mothers with six or more children.
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New York Attorney General James Condemns Federal Funding Cuts to Reproductive Health Care

New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after the Trump administration notified health care providers that offer reproductive health care that they will no longer receive Title X funding: “Cutting funding for health care providers that offer reproductive care to millions of people across the country is cruel and shameful.  Americans from low-income, rural, and minority communities rely on health care facilities that receive Title X funding for cancer screenings, affordable birth control, and so much more.  Reproductive health care is a right. Every individual should be able to access this care without obstacles.”
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Trump unveils new tariffs and CDC’s IVF team is eliminated

Public health experts and IVF advocates said they are shocked at the elimination of the CDC's Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. Their layoffs were part of the sweeping cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services and come just a week after President Donald Trump declared himself "the fertilization president" while touting efforts to expand IVF. 
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With Arrest of Midwife, Texas Escalates Chilling Reproductive Rights Crackdown

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas on March 17. The Houston-area midwife faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly performing illegal abortions — a second-degree felony — and practicing medicine without a license. The chilling announcement marks Texas’s first criminal case against a health care provider since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Two of Rojas’s employees, Jose Ley and Rubildo Matos, were also arrested.
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How federal funding cuts for biomedical research impact reproductive health

Reproductive health is historically understudied and underfunded in the United States. Scientists across Connecticut and beyond have been working to change that. Scientific initiatives like EndoRISE, a Connecticut-based program focused on advancing endometriosis research, are making strides toward better understanding reproductive health. This hour, we explore how President Trump’s recent funding cuts could impact their progress.
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Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers

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.
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