legislation – Page 2 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

14 Jul

What states are voting on abortion ballot measures in 2024?

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The following table provides a list of abortion-related measures that are on the ballot in 2024: StateDateMeasureDescriptionColoradoNov. 5, 2024Right to Abortion Initiative• Provide a constitutional right to abortion in the state constitution and allow the use of public funds for abortionFloridaNov. 5, 2024Florida Amendment 4• Provide a constitutional right to abortion before fetal viability, which is estimated to be around 24 weeks, or when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare providerMarylandNov. 5, 2024Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment• Amend the Maryland Constitution to establish a right to reproductive freedom, defined to include "decisions to prevent, continue, or end…

12 Jul

Polish Parliament Rejects Bill Seeking to Ease Strict Abortion Law

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Poland's lower house rejected a bill on Friday that sought to scrap penalties for people who help someone to get an abortion, highlighting deep divisions in the ruling coalition over easing one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws. Under the draft law, people helping to arrange an abortion, for example by providing abortion pills, and doctors performing terminations in the early weeks of pregnancy or due to foetal anomalies would no longer have faced charges.

11 Jul

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

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

11 Jul

House GOP funding bill in danger over DC reproductive rights rider

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A Republican effort to target a Washington, D.C., law aimed at protecting employees’ reproductive rights is endangering a spending bill GOP leadership hopes to pass later this month.

10 Jul

THE ABORTION FIGHT GOES LOCAL Becerra fears abortion fight is the ‘painful’ start to an erosion of U.S. freedoms

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In February, the secretary of health and human services traveled to Alabama, where he witnessed firsthand the fallout from a local court decision that temporarily banned in vitro fertilization

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.

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.

22 Jun

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

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Proposed South Dakota constitutional amendment being challenged in court

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...."

15 Jun

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

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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

11 Jun

Access to reproductive care inspires many doctors to run for office

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Doctors are running for office in an effort to bring their medical expertise to the debate over reproductive rights. With Trump and Biden nearly even in national polls, will it be enough?

10 Jun

Years after California put abortion on the ballot, Nevada and others try the same. It won’t be so easy.

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Nevada organizers last month celebrated a flood of voter signatures in support of placing a measure ensuring abortion rights on the November ballot.

08 Jun

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has announced the defined cases of permissible abortion and their controls and procedures to preserve the pregnant woman’s life.

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The Ministry has affirmed that new controls and procedures were issued to define and regulate cases of permissible abortion in the UAE. The new regulation requires abortion requests to be made by a dedicated committee that will be formed within each health authority by a decision of MOHAP or the head of the emirate’s health authority. The Committee should comprise of an obstetrics and gynecology specialist, a psychiatry specialist, and a representative of the Public Prosecution.

05 Jun

Senate to vote on bill to guarantee access to contraception

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The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would guarantee access to contraception nationwide, as Democrats seek to draw a contrast with Republicans in the run up to November’s elections.