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Reproductive Freedom for All Slams Fifth Circuit Case That Threatens Mifepristone Access Nationwide Ahead of Oral Arguments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a lawsuit seeking to end mail and pharmacy access to mifepristone nationwide—including in states where abortion is protected.
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Shapiro challenges Trump admin on reproductive health care funding

 On August 27, Gov. Josh Shapiro sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its attempt to restrict federal funding for reproductive health care and family planning services. In July, the Trump Administration announced new terms and conditions on Title X grants for the 2027-2032 grant cycle, attempting to restrict access to reproductive health care in order advance the Trump Administration’s political agenda.
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New Battleground Poll: Todd Blanche’s Anti-Abortion Record is Toxic for Congressional Republicans Ahead of Critical Midterms

New battleground polling conducted by Reproductive Freedom for All and Public Policy Polling shows that Todd Blanche’s threats to use the Department of Justice (DOJ) to restrict abortion access are deeply unpopular and could create serious political consequences for congressional Republicans in November.
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New CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential

Dr Erica Schwartz was confirmed by the US Senate as director ‌of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), making her the first Black woman to hold the position. This is the first time in almost a year that the agency has had a permanent leader; the previous director, Susan Monarez, only lasted 29 days before she was ousted for butting heads with RFK about US vaccine policies. Translation: she was a little too keen on following accepted science for the Trump administration.
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How Todd Blanche Can Weaponize the Nation’s Top Law Enforcement Agency Against Reproductive Freedom

Todd Blanche was sworn in as Trump’s U.S. Attorney General yesterday, putting one of his closest loyalists and former personal defense attorney in charge of the nation’s top law enforcement agency. His swearing in comes as anti-abortion groups intensify pressure on the administration to restrict abortion nationwide—and Blanche has already promised to help deliver.
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Reproductive Freedom for All Condemns Senate Confirmation of Erica Schwartz as CDC Director

The U.S. Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite her dangerous commitment to undermine abortion access and patients’ data privacy. During her confirmation hearing, Schwartz said abortion surveillance is “absolutely a critical component” of the CDC’s work and signaled the federal government could explore collecting more sensitive abortion data. 
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Reproductive technologies and the federal constitutional vacuum

We are on the cusp of some revolutionary new reproductive technologies. Yet the Supreme Court has been silent on how to think about what the Constitution might have to say about the last wave of technologies dating back to the early 1980s. Questions about the propriety of destroying embryos, whether women can lawfully agree to sell their reproductive labor as surrogates, gene editing, radically new forms of family formation, as well as questions of dignity, access, and equality, cut to the quick of what kind of country we are. To the extent we view the Constitution as the ultimate repository of those values,…
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