legislation – Page 5 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

12 Sep

Florida’s Six-Week Ban Led to Substantial Drop in Clinician-Provided Abortions

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Florida, legislation, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

New estimates from Guttmacher’s Monthly Abortion Provision Study show that clinician-provided abortions dropped substantially in Florida after a ban on abortions after six weeks’ gestation took effect on May 1, 2024. The decline likely reflects reductions in access to abortion for Florida residents as well as people from neighboring states with abortion bans who would have traveled to Florida for abortion care.

09 Sep

Fate of Missouri abortion-rights amendment in hands of state Supreme Court

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The Missouri Supreme Court will decide whether an abortion-rights will end up on the Nov. 5 ballot after a Cole County judge ruled the proposed amendment violated state law.

07 Sep

Poland eases abortion access with new guidelines for doctors under a restrictive law

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"Seeking to ease access to abortion for women needing to end a pregnancy for health reasons, Poland's government is issuing guidelines to doctors Friday that reaffirm the legality of such procedures, based on medical recommendations. Under the current law, abortions for health reasons are permitted but the previous conservative government limited some other qualifying circumstances, leading to mass street protests and heightening the reluctance of doctors to expose themselves to a possible prosecution...."

06 Sep

Majority of Florida voters back abortion rights ballot measure: Poll

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A majority of Florida voters say they back a ballot measure to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, according to new polling released Friday by The Hill and Emerson College Polling.

05 Sep

Judge calls Ashcroft’s characterization of abortion amendment ‘unfair’ and ‘misleading’

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For the second time, a Missouri judge has accused Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft of crafting ‘inaccurate’ language around the reproductive rights amendment

04 Sep

Addressing abortion and reproductive rights on the presidential campaign trail

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Abortion remains a divisive issue in the 2024 presidential election and a top concern for many voters.

02 Sep

The 10 states where voters could decide on abortion directly

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Coloradans could enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution and eliminate a ban on public funds being used for abortions

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,…

22 Aug

Opinion: North Carolina judges, the fall election, and reproductive freedom

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As we sprint towards Election Day 2024 with high-profile presidential and congressional elections on the horizon, many of us are talking about how these elections will impact abortion access in North Carolina and around the country. Even if we elect a pro-choice White House, however, the specter of nine unelected justices appointed for life to the highest court in the land where they play an outsized role in abortion access remains. For anti-abortion lawmakers, getting six anti-abortion justices to form a supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court was indeed the key to pushing their unpopular and regressive agenda.

08 Aug

Illinois further expands reproductive health care protections

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Gov. JB Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to perform an abortion in response to a clinical emergency. Another bill bolsters Illinois’ interstate shield law that prohibits Illinois authorities from disclosing information, or using resources, to abet any interstate investigation into someone receiving abortion services within Illinois. The final bill signed prohibits discrimination against people for their reproductive health decisions, including abortion, in vitro fertilization and fertility treatment.

07 Aug

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.

24 Jul

Democrats Hope Harris’ Bluntness on Abortion Will Translate to 2024 Wins in Congress and White House

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President Joe Biden might not often use the word “abortion” when he talks about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Vice President Kamala Harris sure does. She's also toured a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic where the procedure is performed and routinely links the fall of Roe to the larger issue of rising maternal mortality nationwide.

20 Jul

Abortion Gets the Silent Treatment at the RNC

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee didn’t talk about it. Neither did her colleagues Sens. Steve Daines from Montana or Tim Scott from South Carolina. Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, didn’t bring it up. A top adviser to the former president, Kellyanne Conway, certainly didn’t — she’s been warning Republican lawmakers for months to be careful about how they talk about it.

17 Jul

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, IVF, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

15 Jul

Top American election concerns include environment, reproductive right, and more

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Over the last several months, people from across the country have been sharing with their public media stations the issues they most care about in the months before the general election. Stations asked in on-line and on-air call-outs: “What Issues would you like candidates to discuss as they compete for your vote this election season?”