legislation – Page 7 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

31 May

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion laws

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The court ruled against 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions, saying the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough.

29 May

How Delaware aims to strengthen women’s reproductive rights with these bills

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"The Delaware Senate will weigh a series of bills aimed at protecting fertility treatment, abortion access and overall reproductive rights in the First State as the legislative body enters its final month of session. House Bill 374, sponsored by House Rep. Kendra Johnson and Rep. Nicole Poore, will codify legal protections for fertility treatment providers, protecting Delawareans’ access to in-vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies...."

28 May

Forced sterilizations for people with disabilities decried by members of Congress

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Three members of Congress introduced a resolution Thursday that’s intended to bring attention to the experiences and challenges people with disabilities face when it comes to reproductive rights. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley announced the resolution during a press conference with advocates just steps from the U.S. Capitol, saying that under a Supreme Court ruling still in effect, people with disabilities can be sterilized without their consent.

27 May

Commentary: Missouri lawmakers chose anti-abortion antics over helping children and families

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Missouri’s legislative session closed with a sad and stunning display of how little the loudest lawmakers identifying as “pro-life” care about helping children and families — or governing at all.

26 May

Louisiana votes to make abortion pills controlled substances

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"Louisiana has become the first state to pass a law that designates abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances. Once Gov. Jeff Landry signs the bill into law, as he is expected to do, possession of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol without a prescription would be a crime punishable with possible fines and jail time. Louisiana already has a near-total abortion ban, so the medications, which are also used for miscarriages and ulcers, are only available in that state under limited circumstances...."

25 May

New rules are in the works about abortion bans in Texas. Almost nobody’s happy.

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The stakes are high for doctors in Texas when it comes to abortion. https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2024-05-25/new-rules-are-in-the-works-about-abortion-bans-in-texas-almost-nobodys-happyWith three overlapping laws, Texas bans nearly all abortions and has some of the strictest penalties for doctors in the country, including thousands of dollars in fines, the loss of a medical license and even life in prison.

23 May

A comment from Trump and GOP actions in the states put contraceptive access in the 2024 spotlight

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Republican lawmakers in states across the U.S. have been rejecting Democrats’ efforts to protect or expand access to birth control, an issue Democrats are promoting as a major issue in this year’s elections along with abortion and other reproductive rights concerns.

19 May

Abortion ballot measures could lift Dems in U.S. House races, campaign chief says

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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Suzan DelBene told reporters Friday that ballot questions on abortion access, which will go before voters in several states this November, can help vulnerable Democratic candidates in swing districts — potentially increasing the odds the U.S. House flips from red to blue.

15 May

The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

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Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline analysis of provisional federal data on births. In California, births dropped by 5%, or nearly 20,000, for the year. And as is the case in most other states, there will be repercussions now and later for schools and the workforce, said Hans Johnson, a senior fellow…

08 May

Arizona Abortion Ban: Warning for US Reproductive Health Care

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When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9, 2024, that the state's Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions was enforceable, it brought into stark reality the potential impacts of leaving reproductive rights up to the states to regulate, and the related consequences for women's health. The ruling, set to go into effect in late June 2024, will only remain active for a few months because Arizona lawmakers repealed the law on April 30. Starting in the fall, a previous state law banning abortion after 15 weeks will be reinstated.

04 May

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as ‘the underground’

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Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding — and disclosing the cause to a doctor.

28 Apr

These are the states where abortion rights will – or could – be on the ballot in November

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This November, many voters across the country could take to the polls to determine the future of abortion access in their state, with organizers working to secure a wave of measures on the 2024 ballot aimed at restoring or protecting the right to an abortion – and a few aimed at restricting it.

27 Apr

With Florida and Arizona bans looming, money’s getting tight for abortion travel funders

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With Florida set to enforce a six-week abortion ban as early as May 1 and a near-total prohibition taking effect soon after in Arizona, staffers at abortion funds say they won’t be able to meet the increased demand for help funding out-of-state travel — a development that could lead to more people continuing unintended pregnancies.

22 Apr

Hospitals largely keep quiet on maternal care since Dobbs, STAT survey finds

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The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has transformed not just abortion access but maternal health care across the United States, causing physicians in states with restrictive laws to shift treatment of conditions including ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. The full scale of the impact, though, has been obscured in a polarized political climate where physicians are often afraid to speak out, or are blocked by their hospitals from talking about their experiences post-Dobbs.

20 Apr

Reagan-era emergency health care law is the next abortion flashpoint at the Supreme Court

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Two years after ending the national right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court will scrutinize one of the marquee efforts by the Biden administration to preserve abortion access in the post-Roe v. Wade era.