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11 Dec

Democrats Work To Safeguard Reproductive Health Info From Data Brokers

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Measures at state and national levels would ban brokers from selling health and location data that could be used to track patients seeking abortion care, The 19th reports. Also, despite broad abortion restrictions, most U.S. women aren't seeking family planning services, the CDC has found.

11 Dec

Women and Equalities Committee: Women’s reproductive health conditions

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Women’s reproductive health conditions, such as endometriosis, adenomyosis and heavy menstrual bleeding are highly prevalent in the UK.

08 Dec

Louisiana miscarriage patient who had to cross state lines for a D&C wants answers

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Tabitha Crowe said she woke up around 4 a.m. one Thursday in August covered in blood. She was visiting her parents in southern Louisiana when she started miscarrying her first pregnancy. She said her mom and dad drove her to a nearby hospital while she fought dizziness from the blood loss in their back seat.

07 Dec

Push to protect reproductive health data

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Democratic lawmakers at the state Capitol are pushing to pass legislation they say will improve reproductive health care. They hope to get it done before Republicans take control of the State House next year.

02 Dec

What Actions Can the Biden Admin Take on Abortion Before Trump Takes Office?

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Even faced with a hostile administration, some reproductive rights policies will not disappear immediately.

02 Dec

Arizona voters said yes to abortion rights, but old restrictions are still on the books

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Arizonans overwhelmingly voted to make abortion a fundamental right, but overturning the state’s current 15-week gestational ban — and multiple other anti-abortion laws still on the books — isn’t automatic.

01 Dec

These activists wanted more from Missouri’s abortion amendment. They’re not done yet

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Some reproductive rights activists say that Amendment 3, which Missouri voters passed in November, didn't go far enough in expanding abortion access to help the most vulnerable populations. One sticking point was the amendment's language setting limits at "fetal viability," which does not have a true medical definition.

30 Nov

Is it safe to have a child? Americans rethink family planning ahead of Trump’s return

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Some in the US are reconsidering children, with fears over reproductive healthcare and the climate crisis front of mindhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/family-planning-trump

29 Nov

Tracking abortion laws across the United States

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Abortion is now banned in more than a dozen states, while four have banned the procedure past roughly six weeks of pregnancy

27 Nov

Trump Doesn’t Need Congress To Make Abortion Effectively Unavailable

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump tried mightily to reassure abortion rights supporters, vowing he would not sign into law a nationwide abortion ban even if Congress sent him one.

25 Nov

Trump says he’ll leave abortion to the states. It won’t be so simple

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Despite his campaign promises to leave the issue to the states, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will shape the national landscape around abortion and reproductive health.

24 Nov

Abortion foes strategize to get Trump to ban some abortions while keeping his pledge

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The 2024 election results created complicated new realities for reproductive rights in the U.S., with Americans even in a few red states overwhelmingly voting to protect the right to have an abortion while also overwhelmingly electing anti-abortion representatives in state houses, courts, Congress and the White House.

21 Nov

Expecting challenges, blue states vow to create ‘firewall’ of abortion protections

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Officials in blue states are vowing to build a “firewall” of reproductive health protections as they anticipate federal and state attacks on abortion access under the Trump administration. “We’re going on offense,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, told Stateline. “We are in an unprecedented war on American women and patients. State attorneys general, particularly my colleagues and I who support abortion rights and reproductive freedom, have been building this firewall for some time now.”

20 Nov

Alabama unlikely to revisit abortion ban despite success of abortion rights initiatives

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A 2018 “Sanctity of Life” amendment could make it difficult to simply add exceptions to the law. When the Alabama Legislature approved a near-total abortion ban in 2019, some Republican members of the Legislature downplayed the impact of the legislation, saying it was meant as a challenge to Roe v. Wade and that the state would revisit the issue if Roe fell, possibly in a “heartbeat” bill that would ban the procedure at about six weeks after conception.

19 Nov

Judge’s ruling temporarily frees Montana abortion clinics from new licensing requirements

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Abortion clinics in Montana won’t be subject to new licensing requirements — ones their lawyers said could shut them down — at least for the time being. Last week, a Lewis and Clark County District Court judge said the licensing requirements imposed by House Bill 937 from the 2023 Montana Legislature are likely to violate patients’ rights to equal protection.