Healthcare – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

22 Apr

Judge refuses to block sending abortion pill by mail for now, but says FDA must finish review

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Pills, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Louisiana, Reproductive rights

Ruling is setback to Louisiana effort to stifle groups that send it into states with abortion bans

22 Apr

Minors’ Access to Contraceptive Services

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Minors, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, United States

Nearly half of US states explicitly permit minors to access contraception without parental involvement, allowing minors to provide their own consent for this care. In several of these states, minors are allowed to provide consent to contraception only under certain circumstances, including: when there is a health risk to the minor; if the minor is or has ever been married; if the minor is already a parent; or if the minor is currently pregnant or has ever been pregnant. Some of these states also allow providers to notify minors’ parents that they have accessed contraception.

21 Apr

South Dakota Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, GOP Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, South Dakota, United States

Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman.

21 Apr

State Bans on Abortion Throughout Pregnancy

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

The landscape of abortion access in the United States continues to shift rapidly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion. Since then, many state legislatures have created new abortion restrictions and bans, and many have begun enforcing existing ones.

20 Apr

Up To Six Million US Women of Reproductive Age Will Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Budget Law

RileyLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Medicaid, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

The Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that became law in July 2025 will strip up to six million women of reproductive age of Medicaid coverage—with devastating consequences for their reproductive health care access.

20 Apr

The Trump DOJ has fired four U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted anti-abortion extremists for attacking clinics

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, Trump DOJ, United States

The Trump administration fired several U.S. Attorneys responsible for prosecuting anti-abortion extremists who attacked abortion clinics. These are the same extremists Trump pardoned last year after they were convicted by juries of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

19 Apr

Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception

RileyLatest NewsContraception, Cornell University, Healthcare, Male Contraception, Reproductive rights, Science, United States

Cornell scientists have taken a major step toward developing a safe, reversible, long-acting and 100% effective nonhormonal male contraceptive, considered the holy grail of male contraception.

19 Apr

Reproductive Freedom for All Applauds Virginia Governor Spanberger for Signing the Right to Contraception Act

PhoenixLatest NewsDemocratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Virginia

Governor Abigail Spanberger signed the Right to Contraception Act into law, ensuring that Virginians can access contraceptives without government interference. This was a victory years in the making after former Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed similar legislation.

18 Apr

US abortion opponents want Trump’s FDA to act on abortion pill restrictions

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, FDA, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump

U.S. abortion opponents are increasingly frustrated with the lack of action by President Donald Trump's administration to stem the flow of abortion pills prescribed online that they view as undermining state abortion bans.

18 Apr

The State Of Abortion Access In 2026

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion access across the U.S. has been in flux – and the fight around that care continues today. Now, 13 states have a total ban. And five have restricted abortion after six weeks of gestation. The latest state to do so is Wyoming.

17 Apr

Mail-order dominates US abortion pill dispensing

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Pills, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

U.S. pharmacies are largely filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone via mail-order in states permitting telehealth access to the medication, despite a 2023 FDA decision allowing retail pharmacies to dispense the drug, according to a published ‌study

17 Apr

Trump’s Justice Department Reveals the Biden Administration’s Weaponization of Federal Law Against Pro-Life Americans

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump

The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group published a report detailing the Biden Administration’s weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Based on a review of over 700,000 internal records, the report not only details specific ways the Biden Justice Department weaponized federal law, but also outlines the corrective action taken by the current Justice Department to make right the wrongs of the prior administration.

17 Apr

Zero Sum Game—Trump Budget Request Proposes Zeroing Out Family Planning Funds and Continues to Starve Global Health Programs

RileyLatest NewsFamily planning, Global, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump

The White House released its “skinny” budget for fiscal year (FY) 2027, proposing a massive $16.2 billion in cuts to the diplomatic and foreign assistance activities of the U.S. government, while making note that the administration does not believe U.S. foreign assistance funding should support “unfettered access to birth control.” The proposed cuts to the State Department and other international affairs agencies and programs reduce funding by nearly a one-third from the FY 2026 enacted level.

16 Apr

She Was Put in Jail in Texas for an Abortion. Blame the Supreme Court for What Happened Next.

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP majority, Healthcare, misogyny, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, conservative states have stressed that they won’t prosecute women, whom they describe as abortion’s “second victims.” That was the message Texas hoped to send when prosecutors in Starr County dropped charges against a woman named Lizelle Herrera for ending her pregnancy. But Herrera’s case is now communicating something else entirely: Prosecutors who target women for abortion often won’t face any consequences, even when they ignore the law.

16 Apr

Doctors oppose myriad of ‘extremist’ abortion bills in Ohio Statehouse

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, GOP Governor, Healthcare, Ohio, Reproductive rights

Lawmakers remain on break for the rest of this month, but recent legislation still under consideration is getting new criticism from physicians around the state. 150 Ohio doctors, organized by a national group called the Committee to Protect Health Care, have signed a letter strongly opposing a flurry of what they call “extremist” abortion bills moving through the Statehouse.