Reproductive rights – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

03 Oct

VP Debate: What Vance and Walz had to say about abortion and immigration

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, vice presidential debate

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance squared off Tuesday in the only vice presidential debate and, unsurprisingly, they were miles apart when it came to abortion and immigration policy.

03 Oct

It’s harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

PatLatest NewsAbortion Funds, Florida, Reproductive rights, travel, United States

Financial aid funds that help women pay for abortions — or travel to other states to access care — are struggling financially, despite abortion's role in this year's elections.

01 Oct

Maryland is a safe haven for abortion care — with one obscure exception

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, Maryland, Medicaid, Reproductive rights

Women who qualified for Medicaid because they are pregnant may have to foot the bill for an abortion There’s a wonky, long-running and almost entirely under-the-radar hitch that makes it harder for some women in Maryland to get an abortion.

30 Sep

IVF Restrictions, Demise of Roe v. Wade Could Endanger Women’s Health Research

BarbraLatest NewsIVF, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Science

Women are already underrepresented in clinical trials; the new abortion and IVF laws could make it worse.

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.

29 Sep

Women’s health advocates fear restricted abortion access in PA

PatLatest NewsEctopic Pregnancy, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights

Susie Blum Connors never considered the surgery that saved her life three times an abortion. That's because it wasn't. The 74-year-old Scranton woman had three life-threatening ectopic pregnancies treated with emergency procedures in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

28 Sep

Abortion, reproductive rights are economic issues

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Reproductive rights

In a recent television appearance, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer highlighted an all-too-often unrecognized reality: Reproductive rights are an economic issue — and not only for women.

28 Sep

In Russia, International Safe Abortion Day Is a Reminder of Reproductive Rights Backsliding

PatLatest NewsInternational, Reproductive rights, Russia

Women’s rights activists across the globe on Saturday marked International Safe Abortion Day. But for many in Russia, the occasion was a bitter reminder of how far the country’s government has backtracked on its once-liberal abortion policies, leaving thousands of women with increasingly limited access to safe, affordable and timely abortion care.

27 Sep

‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’

AlanLatest NewsComstock law, Reproductive rights, Vote

Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past

26 Sep

Will abortion swing the first post-Roe presidential election?

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, Wisconsin

Dobbs backlash could send an abortion provider to Congress

26 Sep

Funds are cutting aid for women seeking abortions as costs rise

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Funds, Abortion Rights, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

Organizations that help pay abortion costs are capping how much they can help as travel costs rise and the wave of “rage giving” that fueled them two years ago has subsided.

23 Sep

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights

BarbraLatest NewsAdolescent Healthcare, Reproductive rights, World Health Organization

Today's 1.3 billion adolescents are not only the largest age group but also the most diverse the world has ever seen. They face considerable challenges to their sexual and reproductive health and rights and progress is never fast enough.

23 Sep

She was accused of murder after losing her pregnancy. SC woman now tells her story.

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, South Carolina

Charges predated SC’s 6-week abortion ban. Democrat solicitor said his office’s prosecution had ‘nothing to do with that.’

22 Sep

How promises of a ‘post-Roe future’ have fallen short

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

Weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a then-little-known Republican congressman from Louisiana introduced a short bill that proposed amending the Social Security Act to ensure child support payments be made for an “unborn child.”

21 Sep

‘She should be alive today’ – Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, Medical care, Post-Dobbs, Reproductive rights

‘She should be alive today’ – Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans and Trump