Healthcare – Page 22 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

03 Jul

Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states

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For abortion rights supporters in Florida, it was a tumultuous day of highs and lows. On April 1, the Florida Supreme Court paved the way for the state to ban nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. But it also OK’d a ballot measure that would allow Florida voters to overturn the ban this November.

02 Jul

Tennessee Abortion Allies Fight Trafficking Ban for Minors

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Minors, Tennessee, travel

A new Tennessee law that criminalizes a wide range of conduct intended to help pregnant minors get legal abortions in other states without their parents’ consent is unconstitutional, a group of abortion allies says. SisterReach Inc. and (Chicago based ) Midwest Access Coalition Inc. sued Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R) and various district prosecuting attorneys on Thursday in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, seeking to have the law declared invalid and to bar potential future prosecutions against them. .

01 Jul

‘Everything is at stake’ for reproductive rights in 2024, Harris says

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The Biden campaign steps up its focus on contrasting the candidates' positions.

30 Jun

Abortion surveillance isn’t new but monitoring has increased post Dobbs, activists say

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Surveillance, Healthcare, Privacy, United States

Abortion surveillance is something former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has said is up to states. But for abortion providers and advocates, surveillance and monitoring by anti-abortion activists has long been the reality. And post-Dobbs many states are actively trying to expand government surveillance.

27 Jun

Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned

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Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized.

23 Jun

Biden campaign to mark second anniversary of Roe reversal as he makes abortion rights a key reelection message

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Roe v Wade, SCOTUS, United States

President Joe Biden and his allies will mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this week, homing in on an issue that the president’s campaign sees as key to his reelection bid.

22 Jun

Now an abortion rights advocate, woman raped by stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady

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A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady Jill Biden in Pennsylvania this weekend as part of a 2024 election push around the anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade.

21 Jun

The political landscape remains unsettled two years post-Roe

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Roe v Wade, United States

Two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republicans are still grappling with the political downsides of deferring to states on abortion policy.

20 Jun

Democratic women in U.S. Senate target Project 2025 on reproductive rights

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Senate Democrats held a press conference this week to stand up for reproductive rights and freedoms, criticizing a plan by a conservative think tank that if adopted would hinder abortion and contraception access in a Trump administration.

18 Jun

Brazilian women protest bill that would equate late abortions with homicide

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"Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of São Paulo on Saturday as protests sweep across Brazil in opposition to a bill that would further criminalize abortions. If passed, the law would equate the termination of a pregnancy after 22 weeks with homicide. The bill, proposed by conservative lawmakers and heading for a vote in the lower house, would also apply in cases of rape. Critics say those who seek an abortion so late are mostly child rape victims, as their pregnancies tend to be detected later...."

18 Jun

First hospital fined for refusing to provide abortion under new Polish government rules

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"A hospital has been fined for refusing to provide a legal abortion in the first such case since the government recently introduced a requirement for publicly funded medical centres to offer such procedures. Health minister Izabela Leszczyna announced on Monday that the Pabianice Medical Center was fined 550,000 zloty (€126,300). She revealed that audit proceedings regarding two other medical facilities are also in the “final stages” and that they are also likely to be penalised."

17 Jun

Reproductive rights organizations: “Human beings are dying” because of state policies

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Reproductive healthcare advocacy organizations sound alarm about negative trends in Alabama healthcare, blaming recent restrictions on abortion and IVF

16 Jun

Anti-abortion groups say Supreme Court’s mifepristone ruling won’t deter them

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After justices rejected the legal standing of anti-abortion doctors, activists search for plaintiffs they say were harmed by drug

15 Jun

Why some health experts are worried after Southern Baptists vote to oppose IVF

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, legislation, Reprocuctive Rights, United States

The vote to oppose IVF for the first time worries some of a growing push among conservative groups to expand restrictions on reproductive choice.

12 Jun

Billboard campaign aims attention at fund for out-of-state care

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Opponents of abortion-rights amendment push call ads deceptive