Safety Net – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

29 Jul

Arizona Health Care Cost Proposal Expands Access to a Full Year of Birth Control AZPHA Submitted Comments Supporting the Move

RandyLatest NewsArizona, Contraception, Healthcare, Medicaid, Public Health, Reproductive rights, Safety Net

Last week AHCCCS proposed a change to their pharmacy policy to make it easier for Medicaid members to get an extended supply of contraceptives.

24 Jul

Title X: The Nation’s Program for Affordable Birth Control and Reproductive Health Care

AlanLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump

In 1970, the only federal program dedicated to providing low- and no-cost birth control and other reproductive health care was created with bipartisan support.

19 Jul

Trump’s DOJ Goes to Court to Let Employers Deny Birth Control Coverage

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, Trump DOJ, United States

Trump’s Department of Justice went to court seeking to revive a rule that would allow employers to deny birth control coverage.

13 Jun

An Update on Medicaid, Title X and Planned Parenthood

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, United States

Planned Parenthood clinics comprise a substantial portion of the nation’s reproductive health safety net. In recent years, actions across multiple branches of government—including federal agencies, Congress, the courts, and state governments—have placed considerable financial pressure on the organization, with implications for patient access to care. This pressure has primarily focused on the two main sources of public funding for these clinics: the federal Title X family planning program and Medicaid. This brief focuses on the status of these efforts as they affect Planned Parenthood clinics since 2025.

05 May

Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why.

JordanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Birth Control, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

We are entering a startling new era in the politics of birth control, with President Donald Trump launching the most serious effort in decades to curb contraception.

02 May

Virginia bill creates reproductive protections overturned by Trump

JordanLatest NewsDemocratic Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, Virginia

Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger made a minor change to a bill that will make it a Class 1 misdemeanor to obstruct access to reproductive health care facilities. This is one of several bills passed this session to protect reproductive rights.

01 May

As US Birth Rate Falls, Feds’ Response May Make Pregnancy More Dangerous

CoreyLatest NewsBirth Rate, GOP, Pregnancy, Safety Net, Title X, Trump

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from 2024. The fertility rate dropped to 53.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, down 23% since 2007.

29 Apr

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, misogyny, Red States, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

Abortion rates have increased nationwide since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

28 Apr

Trump has turned Title X upside down: from a contraception program into a pronatalist machine

AlanLatest Newsconception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump, United States

First the administration sought to defund Title X. Now it’s reimagining what it stands forhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/trump-title-x-contraception-program-pronatalist

22 Apr

Minors’ Access to Contraceptive Services

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Minors, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, United States

Nearly half of US states explicitly permit minors to access contraception without parental involvement, allowing minors to provide their own consent for this care. In several of these states, minors are allowed to provide consent to contraception only under certain circumstances, including: when there is a health risk to the minor; if the minor is or has ever been married; if the minor is already a parent; or if the minor is currently pregnant or has ever been pregnant. Some of these states also allow providers to notify minors’ parents that they have accessed contraception.

21 Apr

South Dakota Anti-abortion lawmakers seek to redefine ‘abortion’ to exclude medical treatment

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, GOP Governor, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, South Dakota, United States

Some anti-abortion state lawmakers are pushing to revise the definition of “abortion” so abortion bans don’t apply to cases in which the death of an “unborn child” is the result of medical care provided to the pregnant woman.

21 Apr

State Bans on Abortion Throughout Pregnancy

PhoenixLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

The landscape of abortion access in the United States continues to shift rapidly in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion. Since then, many state legislatures have created new abortion restrictions and bans, and many have begun enforcing existing ones.

20 Apr

Up To Six Million US Women of Reproductive Age Will Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Budget Law

RileyLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Medicaid, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

The Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that became law in July 2025 will strip up to six million women of reproductive age of Medicaid coverage—with devastating consequences for their reproductive health care access.

13 Apr

‘Too soon to tell’ how delays in federal family planning grants might affect New Mexico

CoreyLatest NewsFsmily Planning, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, New Mexico, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump

Family planning clinics across the U.S. are bracing for a potential lapse in federal funding — and New Mexico Department of Health officials say it’s “too soon to tell” what kind of impact that will have in the state.

12 Apr

Trump admin moves Title X family planning program away from contraception, toward conception

JordanLatest NewsContraception, Family planning, GOP, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump, United States

New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027.