Trump – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

28 Mar

Trump wants to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood. The Supreme Court will hear a case aimed at that.

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The case concerns a South Carolina policy that would prevent people from using Medicaid — which predominantly insures people of color — at the nation’s largest family planning provider.

27 Mar

What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word?

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Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.

17 Mar

How federal funding cuts for biomedical research impact reproductive health

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Reproductive health is historically understudied and underfunded in the United States. Scientists across Connecticut and beyond have been working to change that. Scientific initiatives like EndoRISE, a Connecticut-based program focused on advancing endometriosis research, are making strides toward better understanding reproductive health. This hour, we explore how President Trump’s recent funding cuts could impact their progress.

10 Mar

Reproductive health providers call for more state funding as federal threats loom

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The funding would go toward services such as routine gynecological exams, cancer screenings and gender-affirming care, but not abortion

09 Mar

Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers

AlanLatest NewsAnti-abortion, FACE Act, GOP, Reproductive care, Reproductive rights, Trump

For more than 30 years, there has been a federal law on the books known as the FACE Act. It prohibits intentional interference with people either providing or receiving reproductive health care services, including abortions. Now the Justice Department says it is sharply scaling back enforcement of that law. NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas looked into what this means for people on both sides of the abortion issue.

24 Feb

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Enforces Overwhelmingly Popular Demand to Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

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ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT: On Friday, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.

09 Feb

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

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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.

08 Feb

AAMC Statement on Drastic Cuts to NIH-Funded Research

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“The administration’s announcement that it plans to cut federal support of biomedical research by drastically reducing reimbursement of research costs related to peer-reviewed grants from the NIH will diminish the nation’s research capacity, slowing scientific progress and depriving patients, families, and communities across the country of new treatments, diagnostics, and preventative interventions.

04 Feb

LA clinics lose grant for transgender health care as Trump executive orders take hold

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A Los Angeles health clinic says it’s losing federal funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people.

03 Feb

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

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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.

28 Jan

Trump orders ban foreign aid, rescind federal funds guidance for abortion

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The executive orders follow directives from Project 2025

27 Jan

Johnson touts ‘new era’ of abortion opposition under Trump

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday abortion opponents are “entering a new era” with President Trump and Vice President Vance in the White House. Speaking at the March for Life, Johnson praised the new administration for anti-abortion actions taken in the first week, including pardoning nearly two dozen anti-abortion activists.

25 Jan

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking access to reproductive health centers

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Clinic access, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership is curtailing prosecutions against people accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and reproductive health centers Mizelle also ordered the immediate dismissal of three FACE Act cases related to 2021 blockades of clinics in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

11 Nov

Health experts outline how Trump administration could affect abortion, contraception access

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President-elect Donald Trump has several choices to make in the coming months about whether his second administration will keep access to contraception and abortion as it is now or implement changes.

11 Nov

Pa. abortion providers, legal experts look at what’s ahead for reproductive rights under a second Trump term

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Health providers and legal experts say changes to federal funding, insurance coverage and federal law during Trump’s first presidency could foretell what’s to come.