GOP – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

30 Jul

Alabama AG seeks crackdown on abortion shield law protections

PhoenixLatest NewsAlabama, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Marshall urges Congress to override shield laws protecting out-of-state abortion access and criminalize abortion-related support.

28 Jul

‘Kicked a hornet’s nest’: Missouri GOP repeal of voter-approved laws inspires backlash

JordanLatest NewsGOP, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights, Voting

Republican lawmakers’ decision to overturn a voter-approved expansion of paid sick leave means benefits Missouri workers accrued in recent months will disappear on Aug. 28. They also placed a question on the 2026 ballot rolling back abortion rights that voters enshrined in the state constitution in November.

25 Jul

Open letter to Earle-Sears reflects Va. voters’ shifting sentiments on reproductive health care

RileyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia, Voting

As Virginia weighs whether or not to enshrine reproductive health care in its constitution, the issue is playing a significant role in the upcoming elections for governor and motivating voters across party lines — including some who say it’s reshaping how they plan to vote this fall.

23 Jul

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP, International, Poor Countries, Trump Administration

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

20 Jul

Federal court strikes privacy protections for reproductive health care

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Court decision, Data Privacy, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas District

A Texas court ruling removes some recent federal privacy protections for reproductive health care, affecting how providers handle sensitive patient information under HIPAA.

20 Jul

HIPAA’s Reproductive Health Rule Is Vacated Nationally

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Data Privacy, District Courts, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on June 18, 2025, issued an order vacating the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, published on April 26, 2024, which amended the Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule (Reproductive Health Rule or Rule). The decision left intact amendments to the HIPAA rule regarding certain Notice of Privacy Practice provisions pertaining to substance use disorder regulations.

09 Jul

Judge says government must keep funding Planned Parenthood in spite of Medicaid cutoff

JordanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Low Income, Medicaid, Reproductive rights

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the government’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood by ordering President Donald Trump’s administration to continue funding to the nation’s largest abortion provider for at least the next 14 days.

06 Jul

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

JordanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, anti-IVF, GOP, Healthcare, United States

Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

17 Jun

Ohio Republicans Introduce Bill That Would Charge Women Who Receive Abortions with Homicide, Ban IVF

CoreyLatest NewsGOP, Ohio, Reproductive rights

“Republican lawmakers in Ohio to propose total abortion and IVF ban”

03 Jun

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”

CoreyLatest Newsgender affirming care, GOP, Reproductive rights, Transgender

Since 2021, a wave of legislation targeting transgender health care has swept across the United States, with 25 states enacting blanket bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth as of March 2025. These legislative bans, often vague and sweeping in scope, have disrupted healthcare access for over 100,000 transgender youth, and imposed significant geographic, financial, and emotional burdens on their families.

22 May

ACLU Responds to House Passage of Reconciliation Bill that Cuts Medicaid, Harming Millions of People with Disabilities

DoryLatest NewsGOP, legislation, Medicaid, People With Disabilities, Reproductive rights, United States

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1, the so-called One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, that attacks civil liberties and cuts Medicaid by at least $600 billion, the largest cut in the program’s history. The reconciliation bill now moves to the Senate.

21 May

House GOP Moves to Repeal FACE Act Days After Clinic Bombing

DoryLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Clinics, GOP, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Today, the House Judiciary Committee is holding a markup on a slate of bills, including one from Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, that would repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. This critical law protects patients and providers from violence, threats, and obstruction at reproductive health facilities.

08 May

Right-to-contraception bills highlight key reproductive health care debate in this year’s elections

CoreyLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Contraception access is an issue resonating loudly within Virginia’s public and political spheres this year and last week, it manifested through state lawmakers contrasting Virginia’s twice-failed attempt to protect access to birth control medications against a similar measure that recently sailed through neighboring Tennessee’s legislature.

30 Apr

The Long List of Trump’s Harmful Reproductive Rights Restrictions

RandyLatest NewsGOP, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

A report compiling harmful actions taken by US President Donald Trump against reproductive rights was released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), a legal organization defending reproductive rights globally. It’s a long list, including policy positions, personnel appointments, website takedowns, administrative changes, government agency shutdowns, and funding cuts.

30 Apr

Trump Restores Title X Funding for Two Anti-Abortion States — While Wiping It Out Elsewhere

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Oklahoma, Reproductive rights, Tennesee, Title X

The Trump administration quietly restored federal family planning money to Tennessee and Oklahoma, despite court rulings that the states weren’t entitled to funds because they refused to provide women information about terminating pregnancies or abortion referrals on request.