Healthcare – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

14 Mar

IWD 2026: SOGC Urges Vigilance in Protecting Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Canada

CoreyLatest NewsCanada, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

Women in Canada should always have free and unfettered access to the rights and health services they are entitled to, regardless of where they live or their level of income. Canadian women have fought hard for these rights, but we must remain vigilant. As a nation, we cannot take women’s sexual and reproductive rights for granted.

13 Mar

Trump and Now-Ousted Noem Have Used Immigration Enforcement as a Weapon Against Reproductive Freedom

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, ICE, Noem, Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Reproductive freedom and safety are inseparable—and the Trump administration has spent the past year demonstrating that with relentless cruelty. The same administration that has systematically attacked reproductive freedom is caging pregnant people in dangerous detention facilities, deporting women in medical distress in defiance of court orders, and terrorizing immigrant communities to the point where pregnant people are afraid to leave their homes to see a doctor.

13 Mar

Reproductive Justice Demands We Call In, Not Just Call Out

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Let’s call in those around us to join the work—and call on our government to honor its duty to protect, not control, our bodies.

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

12 Mar

‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff

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

Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federal government continues to delay the funding process.

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.

10 Mar

Michigan AG Nessel Defends Access to Birth Control and Other Contraceptive Care

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Michigan, Reproductive rights, United States

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (PDF) challenging the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations undermining the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious and moral exemptions to allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and services.

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…

05 Mar

March Bodily Autonomy Committee Meeting

ChaseLatest NewsBodily Autonomy, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Control of our own bodies is a fundamental human right which is frequently under attack by fascists. The Bodily Autonomy Committee strives to realize bodily autonomy for all individuals through reproductive freedom and freedom for individuals to choose how their bodies align to their genders.

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.

03 Mar

Trump administration distorting science on safety of FDA-approved contraception, former FDA officials tell Appeals Court

ChaseLatest Newsconception, FDA, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Three former Food and Drug Administration officials say the Trump administration distorted the science on the safety of FDA-approved contraceptives when it published final rules expanding religious or moral exemptions for employers who want to deny their employees no-cost contraceptive coverage as provided for in the Affordable Care Act.

03 Mar

Reproductive Health Emergency Kits To Be Distributed Friday at University of Arizona

ChaseLatest NewsEmergency kits, Healthcare, Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, United States

The Center for Biological Diversity, the University of Arizona’s Women & Gender Student Space and the College of Public Health Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health will give away sexual and reproductive health emergency preparedness kits on the University of Arizona campus on Friday, March 6.