Opinion – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Oct

Opinion: In the US, rats could soon have better birth-control access than women

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

New York is pushing birth control to curb its rodent problem – at a time when women’s reproductive rights in other US states are under attack. Oh, the irony

30 Sep

Florida abortion law: vague, not scientifically defined, deadly

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Constitutional Amendment, Florida, Opinion, Reproductive rights, Vote

Commentary Think you should be able to choose whether to have that baby or not? Prefer not to die because you can’t get the right medical care? Unless citizens vote to change the Florida Constitution to enshrine reproductive rights, you must avoid this state as if it were an abusive ex. Florida is a danger to women. Amendment 4 would allow abortion up to viability. The existing limit is six weeks.

09 Sep

Commentary: With reproductive rights back on the ballot, research on childlessness provides valuable insights

AlanLatest NewsChildlessness, Healthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, Tennessee

As the U.S. becomes a more difficult place to raise a family, it should come as no surprise that more Americans prefer childlessness. While it is true that a rising percentage of the population choosing not to have children may create problems for the country down the line, politicians will never be able to bully or badger Americans into having kids.

25 Aug

Abortion rights won’t be safe with Hogan in the Senate | GUEST COMMENTARY

BarbraLatest NewsMaryland, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States, US Senate

Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and opening the floodgates to a patchwork of abortion restrictions across the United States. Now, in Maryland, abortion rights are on the ballot. I’m not just talking about this November’s ballot initiative that would enshrine reproductive freedom into the Maryland state constitution.

25 Aug

Commentary: Men must stand with Harris to reclaim reproductive rights

BarbraLatest News, United StatesFlorida, Men, Opinion, Reproductive rights

In the fight for reproductive freedom, and so much that impacts our daily lives, this election is crucial. Since Trump overturned Roe v. Wade, nearly two dozen states have totally banned abortion or severely restricted it. The impacts of these have been catastrophic.

22 Aug

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

AlanLatest Newslegislation, North Carolina, Opinion, Reproductive rights, SCOTUS, United States

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.

11 Aug

Commentary: Threats to family planning loom large in Montana, U.S.

BarbraLatest NewsContraception, Montana, Opinion, Reproductive rights

Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives proposed a party line, federal funding bill that would completely eliminate funding for Title X, our nation’s only program dedicated solely to providing affordable, family planning services. To put it bluntly, they want to defund a program that provides contraception to people who want contraception but can’t afford contraception. This doesn’t make sense.

17 Jul

Opinion: Supreme Court’s blow to federal agencies’ power will likely weaken abortion rights

AlanLatest NewsOpinion, SCOTUS, United States

The Supreme Court wrapped up its term at the beginning of July 2024 with a range of rulings that reshape everything from the power of the presidency to how federal agencies carry out their work. One of the court’s most significant decisions was Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.This ruling, at its core, determines the balance of power between the judiciary branch’s federal courts and the executive branch’s federal agencies. When Congress passes laws, legislators know that many will have gaps and ambiguities. It is generally the job of federal agencies – staffed with subject-matter experts – to issue regulations to fill in that…

13 Jul

Opinion: Trump can’t undo the damage he’s done to reproductive rights

PatLatest News2024, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Opinion, United States, Vermont

Try as he might, Donald Trump can’t blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy.

08 Jul

Why we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children

AlanLatest Newsconception, IVF, Opinion, United States, US Senate

Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power.

27 May

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

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, legislation, Missouri, Opinion, United States

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.

24 May

Commentary: Anti-abortion advocates are manipulating our courts

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Courts, Healthcare, Opinion

In late June of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is expected to issue decisions on “Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v the Food and Drug Administration” (AHM v FDA) and “Idaho v the United States.” Opponents of sexual and reproductive health care rights seek to undermine trusted medical systems, and give states’ total abortion bans the authority to override not only federal law, but doctors’ judgment as well.

05 May

Commentary: In the fight for reproductive rights, no one can save us but ourselves

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Florida, Opinion, United States

Mayday! Mayday! As of midnight on May 1, Florida’s dangerous new six-week abortion ban is the law — effectively banning all abortion care in our state and causing doctors, patients and freedom-loving Floridians everywhere to elevate our calls for the passage of Amendment 4 so that we may enshrine abortion rights in the Florida Constitution.

16 Apr

Since Dobbs, women’s dignity and human rights have been attacked in Ohio and across the country

BarbraLatest News, OpinionAbortion Care, Healthcare, Ohio, Opinion

Can you imagine American men allowing a legislature full of women or a majority female court to enact laws and decrees about their bodies? Can you imagine them tolerating female politicians imposing extreme government overreach on their private medical care decisions? Would American men put up with draconian restrictions on their personal liberties or accede to second class status in a controlling matriarchy? Of course not.

21 Mar

Women will not yield in the free state of Nevada

BarbraLatest News, OpinionAbortion Rights, Nevada, Opinion

Generations of Nevada women have ardently championed reproductive freedom with authentic Battle-Born spirit, strategic persistence and a steadfast commitment to personal freedom and family values. Despite facing national forces seeking to exert control over women and intrude into the most intimate and significant decisions of our lives — such as determining if, when, and how often to have children — Nevadans have consistently stayed one-step ahead in defending our autonomy.