Healthcare – Page 27 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

03 Sep

Austin plans to move forward with abortion travel fund, officials say

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Fund, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas

The city of Austin will be allowed to move forward with plans to implement its Reproductive Justice Fund, despite a lawsuit challenging its legality, city officials said. The Reproductive Justice Fund is a provision in the city’s 2024-25 budget that is meant to provide money to people seeking out-of-state abortions due to the medical procedure being banned in Texas. City Council approved $400,000 for the fund earlier this month. The money can be used for airfare, gas, hotel stays and food.

03 Sep

‘Perfect storm’ of crises is leading to cutbacks in abortion care, advocates say

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises of abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause significant funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care of all kinds. Several people described it as a “perfect storm” of problems with the U.S. health care system, particularly post-pandemic, and the rise of abortion bans and other reproductive care restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022. Many individuals must now travel hundreds or thousands of miles to seek abortion care, and the consolidation of demand at a smaller…

02 Sep

Abortion ballot organizer says Montanans should not take reproductive rights for granted

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Montana, Reproductive rights, United States

The year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Montana’s Republican-majority legislature passed an array of bills restricting abortion. Though these laws were blocked by courts and abortion until fetal viability remains the law in Montana, reproductive rights activists say they no longer feel confident that their state constitution’s right to privacy will always protect their rights while pregnant. Now Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution. Last week the secretary of state’s office approved and certified Constitutional Initiative 128,…

27 Aug

Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Just Lost Their Best Excuse

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Evangelical, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed.

26 Aug

Insurance refused to pay for her abortion, even when her life was at stake

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, Insurance, Reproductive rights, Wisconsin

Ashley and Kyle were newlyweds in early 2022 and thrilled to be expecting their first child. But bleeding had plagued Ashley from the beginning of her pregnancy, and in July, at seven weeks, she began miscarrying.

24 Aug

Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland’s 2024 ballot

DoryLatest NewsAbortion ballot measure, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Maryland, Reproductive rights, United States

Abortion rights will be on the Maryland ballot in 2024. Abortions are legal in Maryland. However, state lawmakers last year passed an amendment that would enshrine the right to an abortion, and "reproductive freedom," in Maryland's constitution.

23 Aug

Texans talk abortion rights, guns, border and immigration at Democratic National Convention

AlanLatest NewsDNC, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

Several Texas Democrats enjoyed a short reprieve from their deep-red state this week and descended on Chicago, surrounding themselves in the friendlier confines of the Democratic National Convention.

18 Aug

‘Perfect storm’ of crises is leading to cutbacks in abortion care, advocates say

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Funding, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reprocuctive Rights

Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises of abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause significant funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care of all kinds.

17 Aug

New York Planned Parenthood staff decry ‘devastating’ abortion service cuts

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Abortion Service Cuts, Healthcare, Manhattan, New York, Planned Parenthood, United States

"In the coming weeks, Planned Parenthood’s Manhattan health center will stop offering core reproductive health services, including abortions after 20 weeks and deep sedation for procedures like abortion or IUD insertion. The Manhattan clinic currently offers abortion through 24 weeks and is the only Planned Parenthood location in the state that does so. The group has been beset by financial challenges, and plans to close a number of New York clinics in the near future...."

14 Aug

Two women file federal complaints, arguing Texas hospitals delayed care due to abortion ban

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Ectopic Pregnancy, Healthcare, Lawsuit, Reproductive rights, Texas

The women had ectopic pregnancies, which are nonviable and life-threatening if not treated early. They say Ascension Seton Williamson and Texas Health Arlington violated federal law by not ending their pregnancies sooner.

08 Aug

Despite Bans, Abortions Rise In US

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, United States

Nearly 100,000 pregnancies are being terminated each month, according to #WeCount data, with a greater percentage of them being medication abortions. Moreover, one in five women are turning to telehealth for the care they need.

07 Aug

Senate Democrats brought up four more bills to protect reproductive rights. Republicans blocked them.

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

All but two Republicans voted against a nonbinding bill that would have affirmed protections for abortion.

07 Aug

Telehealth abortion still on the rise, especially in states with shield laws, report shows

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Telehealth, United States

Both the overall number of abortions and the use of telehealth abortion care continue to increase in the United States, according to the latest #WeCount report released Wednesday. Telehealth made up 20% of all abortion care in the first three months of 2024, and the monthly total of abortions exceeded 100,000 for the first time since the group began tracking abortion data in 2022.

05 Aug

Harris’ possible running mates have record of securing reproductive rights post Dobbs

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

The Democratic Party kicked off its virtual roll call last week to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as its pick for the next commander-in-chief. Harris is expected to announce her running mate soon. Speculation over her vice presidential nominee has run rampant. States Newsroom’s Washington, D.C., bureau recently spoke with political experts who suspect Harris is looking for someone outside the Beltway to connect with voters. According to media reports, she has narrowed her choices to four male governors and a U.S. senator — all white — who represent a mix of competitive and solidly, left-leaning states: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky,…

03 Aug

South Dakota father is leading effort to restore abortion rights in the state

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, South Dakota, United States

Unlike other abortion-rights initiatives across the country, major reproductive rights groups haven’t backed the effort to restore access in South Dakota. But that hasn’t stopped Dakotans for Health — a ballot question committee behind a measure that is set to appear on the November ballot — from galvanizing voters in the state, where abortion is banned unless the mother’s life is at risk. South Dakota enacted a trigger law, first passed by lawmakers in 2005, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.