Opinion – Page 2 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

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.

15 Mar

Restoring Roe Isn’t Enough. Women Deserve More.

BarbraLatest News, OpinionAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Opinion, Roe v Wade, United States

They have a constitutional right to full autonomy over their bodies.

08 Feb

When will women get real reproductive health care in America? Opinion

BarbraLatest News, United StatesContraception, Opinion, Republicans, United States

Last month, Kellyanne Conway made waves within the Republican Party when she announced she was visiting Capitol Hill to promote access to contraception. Her rationale? A pro-contraception message could turn the tide for “young voters” in a post-Roe world. But instead of garnering support, especially from young women, Conway faced intense backlash from within her own party.

25 Jan

Opinion: Help us put abortion rights in the Colorado Constitution

BarbraLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Colorado, legislation, Opinion, State constitution

Colorado long been a trailblazer in individual liberties, can guarantee the right to abortion in the state Constitution While Colorado has long been a trailblazer in championing individual liberties, the absence of a constitutional guarantee for the right to abortion leaves a critical gap in our commitment to securing rights. In 2024, we must protect the full range of reproductive health care in Colorado by putting abortion rights into the Colorado Constitution.

21 Nov

How to Have Effective Conversations About Abortion at Family Gatherings

MollyOpinionAbortion Rights, conversations about abortion, Opinion

"The holidays are almost here, and I’ll admit I’m a little anxious about discussing certain topics at the dinner table with extended family. I’ve got some very outspoken anti-abortion relatives. And even though I work to advance reproductive rights for a living, it can still be incredibly difficult to have meaningful conversations with them about abortion. I know it’s going to come up, though, and I need to be prepared. Abortion continues to be a major issue in the news. Recently, Ohio became the seventh state in which voters directly backed abortion access with a ballot measure since Roe v. Wade was struck down by the U.S.…

06 Sep

U.S. Elites Question Support for Transgender Procedures: Rise of Gender Reassignment Surgeries Now Giving Medical and Media Professionals Pause

BarbraOpinion, United Statesgender-affirming care, Opinion, United States

Over time, it has been clear that it is the gender and sexuality issues that are the clearest indicator and perhaps also the most powerful engines of that revolution in a more secular and more progressivist or more liberal direction.

04 Jun

OPINION: Column: Persecution of the abortion doctor who treated pregnant child was a shameful political farce

BarbraOpinion, United StatesAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Indiana, Opinion, United States

"The first physician to publicly fall victim to the antiabortion madness that has followed the overturning of Roe vs. Wade was vindicated last month when Indiana medical officials ruled that she did not fail to report child abuse and was not unfit to practice medicine after providing abortion care to a 10-year-old and telling a reporter about it...."