Reproductive rights – Page 3 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

06 Mar

GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions.

05 Mar

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.

04 Mar

New poll indicates abortion policy could affect employment decisions

RandyLatest NewsBrain Drain, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A state’s policies on reproductive issues, including abortion, are likely to affect where people decide to take a job or start a family, according to a poll released Monday, and no states with restrictive abortion policies had majority support from those polled.

03 Mar

Commentary: To truly protect abortion access, New York must invest in training

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Providers, Healthcare, New York, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

A growing shortage of trained providers affects not only other states, but many regions of New York, too.

02 Mar

Opinion: The cruel consequences of moving fast and breaking things

MauraLatest NewsHealthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022 is a case of an ill-considered decision backfiring spectacularly. Based on all available data, this decision has produced pretty much exactly the opposite of what supporters said they wanted to achieve. Since it went into effect, abortions in the U.S. have gone up, the fertility rate has declined to a historic low and the infant mortality rate has increased.

01 Mar

Researchers estimate 1 in 10 abortions provided by online-only clinics one year after Roe

MauraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In the first year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an estimated 1 in 10 abortions were provided by online-only clinics, according to new data released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit that researches reproductive health and advocates for abortion access.

17 Feb

EU says it ‘cannot fill’ USAID funding gap as Africa seeks solutions

PatLatest NewsAfrica, EU, International, Reproductive rights

The European Union said it cannot plug the funding gap left by the United States suspending aid programs, as governments across Africa try to keep critical health care services running. The US is the largest single aid donor in the world, disbursing some $72 billion in assistance in 2023, much of it through the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In that same year the EU, the largest collective donor, contributed almost $100 billion.

15 Feb

As faith-based programs teach sex ed in Utah’s public schools, Planned Parenthood may get banned

RandyLatest NewsHealthcare, Mormon, Reproductive rights, School-aged, Sex-ed, United States, Utah

At least two school districts have approved employees of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family Services to give sex education-related lectures to students.

13 Feb

Republican States Claim Zero Abortions. A Red-State Doctor Calls That ‘Ludicrous.’

MauraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In South Dakota, too, official records show zero abortions that year. And in Idaho, home to abortion battles that have recently made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the official number of recorded abortions was just five. In nearly a dozen states with total or near-total abortion bans, government officials claimed that zero or very few abortions occurred in 2023, the first full year after the Supreme Court eliminated federal abortion rights.

09 Feb

USAID’s reproductive health funding has saved millions of lives. Now it’s gone.

BarbraLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States, USAID

For decades, USAID’s family planning program was the main source for contraception and HIV treatment in some countries. Experts say without it, women and LGBTQ+ people will die.

07 Feb

After ‘Abortion’ Was Wiped From CDC Website, Users Now Get ‘Adoption’ Info

PatLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, Messaging, Reproductive rights, United States

The change was made while federal health care webpages were taken offline. Reproductive health workers call it a "clear attempt" to change the messaging around pregnancy. Meanwhile, health care centers and clinics nationwide are making tough calls after the White House instituted a funding freeze.

06 Feb

Conservatives want to increase birth rates. These moms are terrified to have more kids

RandyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Tennessee, United States

These women live in states that currently or previously had abortion bans, and cited those policies as part of or the primary reason for their fertility decisions.

03 Feb

How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Project 2025, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Project 2025 promotes a presidential agenda that rolls back civil and human rights and implements extremist conservative policies across every federal department and agency. Its sweeping far-right policy framework,1 by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, includes numerous attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The plan’s far-reaching recommendations would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive health care, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally. This fact sheet enumerates some of the agenda’s most serious threats to sexual and reproductive health and describes potential effects.

02 Feb

Texas’ abortion ban, among the strictest in the U.S., could get even stricter

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and during this legislative session, anti-abortion advocates are hoping to foreclose on the few remaining avenues left to end a pregnancy.

31 Jan

Parental rights at center of reproductive health debate

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

The anti-abortion movement has framed certain protections for abortion care as attacks on parental rights. Opponents of successful reproductive rights ballot measures in Ohio, Missouri, Maryland and New York often deployed this rhetoric while campaigning. Parental rights were not included in Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot language that passed in November 2023. But that didn’t stop first lady Fran DeWine from saying in an ad that the measure “would deny parents the right to be involved when their daughter is making the most important decision of her life,” Ohio Capital Journal reported.