GOP – Page 2 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

01 Apr

Family Planning Clinics Brace for Gap in Federal Grant Funding

RandyLatest NewsFamily planning, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration, United States

"Family planning clinics that receive federal funds face a nearly impossible timeline to secure their next batch of grants at a time when many of these providers are already struggling to stay afloat

31 Mar

Birth Control is Essential Healthcare, but It’s Now Under Attack

RileyLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Reproductive health and reproductive freedom go hand in hand.

29 Mar

Red states move to protect crisis pregnancy centers using model legislation

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Crisis Pregnancy Center, GOP, Healthcare, Red States, Reproductive rights, United States

Conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing legislation drafted by an advocacy group that opposes abortion to increase protections for crisis pregnancy centers, organizations that provide some health-related services but also work to dissuade women from having abortions.

23 Mar

Abortion on the 2026 Ballot: The Evolving Landscape of State Abortion Initiatives

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling, state ballot initiatives have become a powerful tool used by advocates on both sides hoping to either protect or limit abortion access in their state.

22 Mar

U.S. Repro Watch: Six Updates You Won’t Want to Miss

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

The Center for Reproductive Rights is representing a Texas midwife sued for supposedly performing illegal abortions.

17 Mar

New Attacks on Medication Abortion Distort the Reality of Reproductive Coercion

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

As abortion bans and restrictions proliferated after the fall of Roe, medication abortion, and telehealth abortion care in particular, have become some of the most common and critical ways that people can still access care. In an effort to eliminate these remaining points of access, the anti-abortion movement has launched a campaign of misinformation, junk science, and aberrant policies to try to restrict access to medication abortion.

12 Mar

Trump Admin Must Provide Answers for Horrifying Treatment of Pregnant ICE Detainees

DoryLatest NewsCenter for Reproductive Rights, GOP, Healthcare, ICE, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Multiple pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women have shared ghastly stories of mistreatment and neglect at the hands of ICE agents

11 Mar

NAACP Files Amicus Brief to Support Access to Affordable Contraception

DoryLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, NAACP, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The NAACP signed on to an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President United States of America, et al. In the case, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are challenging regulations enacted during the first Trump administration that expanded the religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit. The exemptions allow employers or universities to impose religious or moral beliefs on their employees and students – blocking them from accessing affordable contraception.

08 Mar

AU (American’s United) & allies urge court to protect birth control access from broad religious exemptions

JordanLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Americans United for Separation of Church and State, joined by the National Women’s Law Center and over 60 reproductive rights, civil rights, religious and other social justice organizations, urged the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm that overly broad religious exemptions shouldn’t be used to undermine nationwide access to birth control.

07 Mar

Virginia’s Bedford County supervisor files suit challenging reproductive rights constitutional amendment

JordanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States, Virginia

Lawsuit claims abortion ballot initiative is invalid because Virginia’s House of Delegates did not distribute it to all circuit court clerks and post it for public inspection three months prior to the 2025 House of Delegates election.

06 Mar

CA Attorney General Bonta Continues to Defend Contraceptive Access from Trump Administration Attacks

JordanLatest NewsCalifornia, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in support of a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania and New Jersey concerning reproductive rights. Specifically, the brief backs the two states in opposing the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations that undermine the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious exemptions and create moral exemptions that allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and…

04 Mar

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

JordanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, ICE, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, Undocumented, United States

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from some of the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.

04 Mar

Vance, Johnson and others speak at anti-abortion March for Life in Washington

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Vice President JD Vance encouraged anti-abortion activists to "take heart in how far we've come" on the quest to limit the practice, listing the Trump administration's accomplishments including an expansion of a ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services.

02 Mar

The quiet collapse of America’s reproductive health safety net

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

In late October, Maine Family Planning announced three rural clinics in northern Maine would close by month's end. These primary care and reproductive health clinics served about 800 patients, many uninsured or on Medicaid.

02 Mar

Anti Reproductive Health Executive Actions

AlanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Repro Red Flags: Agency Watch will serve as a repository of key Trump administration policies related to reproductive health, including those impacting abortion access, maternal health, and assisted reproduction. This resource will track executive actions such as Executive Orders, Presidential Memoranda, Proclamations, and Statements of Administration Policy as well as significant agency actions, guidance, and memoranda. It will also monitor ongoing rulemaking, highlighting relevant regulations and opportunities for public input.