legislation – Page 9 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

14 Mar

VP Harris promotes abortion access in historic visit to Minnesota Planned Parenthood

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Vice President Kamala Harris toured a St. Paul Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday, in what is thought to be the first visit by a sitting president or vice president to an abortion provider.

13 Mar

‘Judge Shopping’ Could Become Harder After Move By Federal Courts

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The mifepristone case raised the visibility of the practice by some advocacy groups to file lawsuits in front of courts or judges that are likely to be more sympathetic or friendly to the case. Other reproductive health news reports on birth control, the maternal health crisis, Medicaid coverage, and more.

10 Mar

Supreme Court hears abortion arguments

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The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case about whether minors must receive parental consent for an abortion. This case is revisiting a fraught legal question that Montana voters, lawmakers and residents have grappled with for more than a decade.

05 Mar

Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland’s 2024 ballot

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Reproductive rights up for vote on Maryland's 2024 ballot BALTIMORE - 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.

04 Mar

Threats to health care sector targets likely to stay ‘elevated’ amid cultural wars: DHS

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Threats to health care locations and those who work there are surging and are likely to stay "elevated," as a result of cultural and divisive issues like abortion, gender-related care and a hangover from debates caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, federal intelligence analysts said.

03 Mar

Alabama passes IVF protections while red states still push ‘personhood’ abortion laws

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All but six state legislatures are now in session, and abortion-related bills continue to be introduced, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. It can be hard to monitor them all, so States Newsroom’s Reproductive Rights Today team will track certain bills that could become law in their respective states in a biweekly legislative roundup.

02 Mar

Telehealth abortions on the rise since Dobbs, new report shows

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Researchers studying national abortion trends found that in the 15 months since Roe v. Wade fell, abortion rates remained elevated despite more limited access throughout the U.S., according to the Society of Family Planning’s latest #WeCount report.

25 Feb

Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women’

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California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, is launching a series of new advertisements in Republican states targeting Republican efforts to criminalize having an abortion and “a war on travel” for reproductive care.

24 Feb

‘We knew’: Abortion rights advocates who predicted the Alabama ruling warn about more restrictions

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruling last week that embryos are people, imperiling in vitro fertilization, shocked many Americans. But the decision was vindicating for abortion rights activists who have warned for years that the fall of Roe v. Wade would put other forms of reproductive health care on the chopping block.

20 Feb

Alabama Supreme Court’s Frozen Embryo Decision Could Jeopardize IVF

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The Alabama Supreme Court ruled 7-1 on Friday that frozen embryos qualify as children under state law. Reproductive rights advocates say that the decision could have a wide-ranging impact on in vitro fertilization.

17 Feb

Biden and Democrats attack Trump over abortion after report that he supports a 16-week ban

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President Joe Biden and his allies attacked Donald Trump over abortion after the New York Times reported Friday that the former president has privately expressed support for a 16-week federal ban, as Democrats center the politically potent issue ahead of November’s election.

16 Feb

Abortion care and transgender health care are ‘parallel struggles’ in 2024 legislation

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Last year, lawmakers approved the Reproductive Health Protection Act, which shields health care providers in Maryland from liability if they help out-of-state patients obtain an abortion, as long as the services provided are legal under Maryland law.

14 Feb

Mental health emerges as dividing line in abortion rights initiatives planned for state ballots

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The weeks after Kaniya Harris found out she was pregnant were among the hardest in her life. Final exams were fast approaching for the college junior. Her doctors told her she had an ovarian cyst, and the risk of ectopic pregnancy was high. The wait times for abortion clinics near her city of Bethesda seemed impossibly long. And she couldn’t visit her family in Kentucky because of the state’s abortion ban.

12 Feb

Adams Administration Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill of Rights, Further Enshrining Right to Reproductive Health and Abortion Care in NYC

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As the right to access abortion care has been stripped away from over one-third of U.S. women, New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the city is further enshrining its commitment to reproductive rights, releasing the Sexual and Reproductive Bill of Rights.

11 Feb

A lesson in recognizing anti-abortion propaganda

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Extremist anti-abortion rhetoric often relies on misleading propaganda to sway public opinion and garner support for the anti-choice cause. By disseminating inflammatory and false information, extremists seek to manipulate individuals into adopting their political viewpoint, regardless of the factual inaccuracies presented to the public. Such tactics not only misrepresent the truth, but also perpetuate harmful misconceptions about reproductive health care and individual rights.