Healthcare – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

19 Mar

Family Planning Clinics Have Just Days To Reapply For Title X Funding

MorganLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

The Department of Health and Human Services' long-delayed guidance eliminates verbiage deemed inappropriate by the Trump administration and advises against "non-discriminatory services." Current grants expire April 1.

18 Mar

Politics & periods: Planned Parenthood rally draws first-ever Republican lawmaker speaker – Kentucky

MorganLatest NewsHealthcare, Kentucky, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, United States

Standing in front of a Planned Parenthood backdrop in a pink suit, a Republican Kentucky lawmaker said Thursday “the ability to control one’s own fertility” is “at the very heart” of the right to pursue happiness.

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.

17 Mar

US pulls away from family planning. What about the $600M saved for it?

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

Despite Congress approving $607.5 million for family planning, new U.S. policies are reshaping how global health funding is spent.

16 Mar

This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control

FlynnLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A newly discovered molecular “switch” supercharges sperm — and could revolutionize both fertility care and male contraception.

16 Mar

VG Senator Warner, Colleagues Demand HHS Immediately Release Title X Funding

FlynnLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, HHS, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration

Today, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) joined 38 colleagues in sending a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., demanding that HHS take immediate action to protect Americans’ uninterrupted access to comprehensive family planning and services by awarding a one-year full funding extension for all current Title X grantees.

15 Mar

NH State Senate votes down bill to protect medical providers offering abortions

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, New Hampshire, Reproductive rights, Shield Law

A bill that would have codified the right to reproductive health care services in New Hampshire — including contraception, abortion and assisted reproduction — was voted down 16-8 by the state Senate on Thursday.

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.