Healthcare – Page 4 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

17 Aug

Minors’ Ability to Consent to Contraception and Abortion Services

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, Healthcare, Minors, Parental consent, Reproductive rights, United States

Across the country, minors’ ability to consent to their health care, particularly their reproductive health care, varies significantly. Expanding “parental rights’ in health and education has been a priority for politically conservative groups and was outlined as a “top-tier” right by the Heritage Foundation in Project 2025. While parental involvement in health care can facilitate access and improve outcomes, it is not always possible for teens to include parents in decisions about sensitive health care decisions. Some teens, particularly those who have unstable home lives, are in foster care, or fear abuse if their parents were to become aware they are seeking…

17 Aug

Six Months In: How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Globally

ChaseLatest NewsGlobal, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has undertaken a sweeping and ideologically driven rollback of human rights protections, with particularly grave consequences for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) globally. The administration has drastically cut funding to international health programs, withdrawn from key multilateral institutions and agreements, and advanced an agenda that is overtly opposed to human rights, particularly those advancing gender and reproductive autonomy. These actions not only threaten access to essential health services for millions of people—particularly in low- and middle-income countries—but also undermine international cooperation and accountability in advancing the rights and health of women, girls…

15 Aug

Planned Parenthood role as Indiana Medicaid provider at risk as AG strikes at decade-old injunction

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS

The state cited a SCOTUS switch-up in arguing it should be able to enforce a 2011 law.

15 Aug

Judge sides with NJ, strikes down Trump rules in Obamacare contraception case

ChaseLatest NewsACA, Contraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights

A federal judge this week sided with New Jersey and Pennsylvania by striking down Trump administration regulations that allowed employers citing religious or moral grounds to opt out of contraceptive mandates under the Affordable Care Act.

14 Aug

U.S. Repro Watch: Six Updates You Won’t Want to Miss

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Trump administration proposes new abortion ban, states sue over federal Medicaid cuts, and more news on U.S. reproductive rights.

14 Aug

Women in states with abortion bans are the biggest users of abortion telemedicine

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Telemedicine, United States

In a new study, 84% of online prescriptions went to patients living in abortion-ban states

13 Aug

Repro Red Flags: Executive Actions

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, IVF, Maternal & Child Health, Reproductive rights, Trump, Trump Administration, United States

President Donald Trump has stacked his administration with anti-reproductive rights officials responsible for leading federal agencies that directly impact access to reproductive health care—including abortion, birth control, IVF, and maternal health care.

12 Aug

Indiana court upholds abortion ban in case asking for more health exceptions.

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Indiana, Reproductive rights

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the state's near-total abortion ban on Aug. 11, ruling that the 2022 law did not violate the "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" clause of the Indiana Constitution.

12 Aug

Telehealth Has Unlocked Abortion Access In South And Midwest: Study

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Telehealth, United States

A study released Monday in JAMA found that the rates of telehealth abortion were notably highest in states with abortion bans.

11 Aug

What to know about how Trump’s judicial picks could reshape abortion rights for decades

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Judges, Reproductive rights, Trump

A review by The Associated Press shows that several of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the federal courts have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions.

10 Aug

Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliate rejects Medicaid amid fears over Trump cuts

RandyLatest NewsHealthcare, Ohio, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, United States

Group fears administration could try to claw back Medicaid payments if judge’s ruling on reimbursements is overturned

09 Aug

The Next Infodemic: Abortion Misinformation

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Misinformation, Reproductive rights

Approximately 20% of women in the United States have had an abortion. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization allowed a Mississippi law that proposed to make abortion illegal after 15 weeks to stand, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 SCOTUS decision that affirmed the right to have an abortion under the 14th amendment . With the reversal of Roe v. Wade, a perfect storm of factors is driving an abortion infodemic including a confusing and rapidly changing legislative landscape, the proliferation of abortion disinformants, lax efforts by internet…

08 Aug

Week In Review

PhoenixLatest NewsHealthcare, Illinois, Reproductive rights, United States

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act (WOPR), which limits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in therapy and psychotherapy services. WOPR prohibits using AI in the state for therapeutic decision-making, but allows licensed behavioral health professionals to use AI for administrative and support tasks. WOPR aims to protect patients from “unregulated and unqualified” AI products, especially amid concerns over the use of AI chatbots in youth mental health services. It also seeks to preserve the jobs of thousands of behavioral health providers in Illinois.

08 Aug

Congresswoman Friedman Announces Legislation to Restore Planned Parenthood Funding

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Democrats, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, United States

U.S. Congresswoman Laura Friedman (CA-30) held a press conference at West Hollywood City Hall alongside city officials, members of local Planned Parenthoods, and healthcare providers to introduce the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act. Friedman’s new bicameral legislation aims to repeal a recently enacted Republican ban on Medicaid reimbursements for services provided at Planned Parenthood clinics. The bill is seen as a critical step toward protecting vital and affordable healthcare services that millions of Americans rely on.

07 Aug

Patient Numbers at NIH Hospital Have Plummeted Under Trump, Jeopardizing Care

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

The number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — the renowned research hospital that cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the second Trump administration, according to government documents and interviews with current and former NIH employees.