GOP – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

22 Jul

Emails Detail Confusion in State Department over Trump Plan to Destroy Contraceptives

AlanLatest NewsContraception, Global, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump

“Newly disclosed emails reveal confusion at the State Department during the Trump administration’s push last year to destroy almost $10 million worth of family planning commodities in a Belgian warehouse that were intended for distribution in some of the world’s poorest nations.

20 Jul

Trump administration cancels grants aimed at reducing teen pregnancies

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Teen Pregnancy, Trump, United States

The Trump administration has canceled all but a few teen pregnancy prevention grants. That funding went to public health departments, universities and nonprofits to help teach young people and their caregivers how to reduce teen pregnancies.

20 Jul

2026 Reg Agenda Clamps Down On Abortion Access, Could Establish Fetal Personhood

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

The Trump administration is continuing efforts to limit abortion accessibility, and could potentially codify fetal personhood, though its 2026 regulatory agenda, which proposes a new rule allowing pregnant women to receive child support, a vague proposal to modify Title X statutory requirements and a rule to address Biden-era requirements ensuring reproductive care for unaccompanied, undocumented children.

19 Jul

Trump’s DOJ Goes to Court to Let Employers Deny Birth Control Coverage

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, Trump DOJ, United States

Trump’s Department of Justice went to court seeking to revive a rule that would allow employers to deny birth control coverage.

16 Jul

Planned Parenthood to target GOP with $47 million midterm blitz

AlanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Midterms, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, United States, Vote

The near-record investment from Planned Parenthood Votes will fund efforts to unseat Republicans who voted to defund the abortion provider last year.

12 Jul

Four years after Dobbs, Texas abortion-rights advocates struggle to break through in Washington

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Red States, Reproductive rights, Texas

On the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, Samantha Casiano carried a picture of her daughter, Halo, with her to meetings on Capitol Hill.

10 Jul

Virginia’s reproductive rights amendment faces legal challenges over procedural step, language

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-Reproductive Rights, Democratic Governor, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Bedford and Tazewell counties cases could test whether lawmakers properly advanced the ballot measure — and one suit could potentially affect two other pending constitutional amendments.

09 Jul

Abortion medication, HPV vaccine laws take effect Wednesday in three states

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Iowa, misogyny, Mississippi, Reproductive rights, Tennesee, Trump

Several laws restricting access to medications that can be used to terminate a pregnancy and others placing limits on minors’ access to sexual and reproductive healthcare — including the HPV vaccine — take effect Wednesday, July 1, in Iowa, Mississippi and Tennessee.

08 Jul

Tracking the Attacks on Reproductive Freedom Under Trump 2.0

MorganLatest NewsBodily Autonomy, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

A rolling timeline of attacks on abortion, birth control, fertility, and other reproductive health care.

07 Jul

The Antiabortion Playbook Is Coming for Birth Control

MorganLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Bodily Autonomy, Contraception, GOP, States, Trump

The same strategy that weakened abortion rights—misinformation, incremental restrictions and attacks on access—is now being deployed against contraception.

06 Jul

4 surprising things to know about abortion in America since Dobbs

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, States, Trump, United States

It's been four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion.

05 Jul

Fight for Abortion Rights Has Turned to States in Years Since Landmark Reproductive Rights Ruling

MorganLatest NewsAbortion, Anti-abortion, Bodily Autonomy, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS, State Abortion Rules, Trump, United States

Four years ago, the Supreme Court struck down the federal right to abortion. Since then, the fight has turned to the states.

03 Jul

Medication Abortion Is Under Threat in the Courts and at the FDA

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

Later this year, a Louisiana judge, the FDA, or the DOJ could all shut down telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone. That’s how most people in ban states get care.

02 Jul

The looming threats to abortion access in 2026

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

In recent years, antiabortion groups and lawmakers have seeded a number of challenges to medication abortion. This year, several are coming to fruition.

01 Jul

Locked Away and Left to Expire: The Trump Administration’s Destructive Denial of Contraceptive Care

PhoenixLatest Newsconception, Global, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, Wasted Funds

The Trump administration has wasted $434,317 in taxpayer dollars since January 2025 to store contraceptives that it refuses to distribute to women and girls in low-income countries. A report from the Office of Inspector General of US Agency for International Development (USAID) reveals that the administration has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in storage and transportation costs for the $9.7 million worth of family planning supplies that it abandoned in Belgium rather than allowing them to be used. (The supplies were originally purchased by USAID.) With every additional month that passes after June 2026, the administration will spend over $24,000 to…