Trump – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Jun

After feds say hospitals don’t have to perform emergency abortions, more confusion for patients and doctors

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President Trump’s administration is telling hospitals that they don’t have to perform abortions for patients in emergencies, rolling back the guidance issued under Biden’s administration.

04 Jun

Trump administration rescinds emergency abortion guidance

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

The Trump administration has rescinded guidance telling health care workers who provide abortions to save their patients’ lives that they are protected under federal law.

28 May

Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Threats, Trump, United States, Women's Health

The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the presidency may take. This post examines the impact of the Trump administration’s first 100 days on women’s health and identifies potential threats to health services that are important for women.

02 May

The Women’s Health Initiative has shaped women’s health for over 30 years, but its future is uncertain

PatLatest NewsHealthcare, NIH, Reproductive rights, Science, Trump, United States, Women's Health

Women make up more than 50% of the population, yet before the 1990s they were largely excluded from health and medical research studies. To try to help correct this imbalance, in 1991 the National Institutes of Health launched a massive, long-term study called the Women’s Health Initiative, which is still running today. It is the largest, longest and most comprehensive study on women’s health ever conducted in the U.S. It also is one of the most productive studies in history, with more than 2,400 published scientific papers in leading medical journals.

22 Apr

Trump administration’s federal funding pause disrupts Planned Parenthood services, says Florida NOW

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Eleven Planned Parenthood health centers in Florida are facing “severe disruptions to their operations” after the Trump administration paused federal funding, says the Florida chapter of the National Organization for Women.

22 Apr

Planned Parenthood closing two Utah clinics after Trump cuts all federal reproductive health funds to state

MauraLatest NewsHealthcare, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, Trump, Utah

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah will shut down a quarter of its clinics after the Trump administration froze a Title X grant to pay for family planning services.

08 Apr

‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings

PatLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Mass Firings, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward

06 Apr

Inside the “Vital” Office for Reproductive Health Gutted by Mass HHS Firings

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One of the casualties of Tuesday’s massive purge of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an office dedicated to promoting healthy pregnancies.

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?

CoreyLatest NewsFunding, gender, GOP, Trump, United States, Women's Health, Women's Rights

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

PatLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Federal Government, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, States, Trump

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

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Hyde Amendment, Trump, United States

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.