Trump Administration – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

04 Mar

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

JordanLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, ICE, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, Undocumented, United States

The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas. The decision was made over urgent objections from some of the administration's own health and child welfare officials, who say both the facility and the region lack the specialized care the girls need.

03 Mar

Trump administration distorting science on safety of FDA-approved contraception, former FDA officials tell Appeals Court

ChaseLatest Newsconception, FDA, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Three former Food and Drug Administration officials say the Trump administration distorted the science on the safety of FDA-approved contraceptives when it published final rules expanding religious or moral exemptions for employers who want to deny their employees no-cost contraceptive coverage as provided for in the Affordable Care Act.

28 Feb

An Unhealthy Obsession — The Cruelty Behind Cuts to Family Planning Programs Proposed by the Trump Administration and House Republicans

PhoenixLatest NewsFamily planning, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

As fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026) spending deliberations haltingly begin, the Trump administration and House Republicans have made one of their priorities clear: terminate funding for international family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) programs. The upcoming budget battle is just the latest in a series of attacks on the rights, health, and bodily autonomy of millions. Congress has the opportunity to align itself with its constituents’ beliefs in legally protected sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and protect global FP/RH. But will they?

27 Feb

Holding the Trump Administration Accountable for Wasting Millions of Dollars of Birth Control

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Trump administration will let tens of millions of dollars’ worth of contraception paid for by taxpayers expire rather than distribute it as foreign aid. The contraception, representing a value of at least $10 million and possibly as much as $40 million, was earmarked for women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa—where its loss could result in more than a million unintended pregnancies and thousands of maternal deaths. Multiple humanitarian organizations have offered to buy the birth control, but the administration has refused.

10 Feb

NIH Grant Disruptions Slow Down Breast Cancer Research

FlynnLatest NewsBreast Cancer, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sat on a metal counter. Inside these humble-looking jars is the core of Joan Brugge’s current multiyear research project.

07 Feb

American Society for Reproductive Medicine Responds to TrumpRx Announcement, Says IVF Access Requires More Than Lower Drug Prices

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The move by the Trump administration alone does not make IVF attainable for most patients. Fertility drugs represent only one portion of the overall cost of care, and patients without good insurance coverage continue to face significant out-of-pocket expenses.

25 Jan

Seeking Transparency on Trump’s Greenlighting of Violence Against Abortion Providers and Patients

RileyLatest NewsCenter for Reproductive Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Center is suing the Trump administration over its decision to selectively stop enforcing the FACE Act—a bipartisan law that protects abortion providers and patients from violence and harassment—and to pardon individuals already convicted under this law.

07 Jan

The CDC Just Sidelined These Childhood Vaccines. Here’s What They Prevent.

JordanLatest NewsHealthcare, Maternal & Child Health, Trump Administration, United States, Vaccines

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death.

03 Jan

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants

ChaseLatest NewsDEI, Health Research, Healthcare, Trump Administration, United States, Vaccine

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

31 Dec

Trump Admin Proposes Gender-Affirming Care Bans

DoryLatest Newsgender affirming care, Gender affirming Care ban, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trans Rights, Trump Administration, United States

The Trump Administration released two proposed rules intentionally designed to make gender affirming care for young people impossible to access. In one rule, federal Medicaid reimbursement is banned for medical care provided to transgender patients under 18 and prohibits reimbursements through CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) for transgender patients under 19. In the other rule, the administration is planning to block all Medicaid and Medicare funding for services at hospitals that provide gender affirming to young people.

27 Dec

2025 Was a Year of Chaos for Reproductive Rights Under the Trump Administration

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Project 2025 initiated a war on reproductive rights that could escalate into even higher gear in 2026.

24 Dec

Proposed HHS rule on gender-affirming care radically expands use of Medicare, Medicaid as policy weapons

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, transgender health care, Trump Administration, United States

Last Thursday, the Trump administration released a proposed rule prohibiting hospitals that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding from providing any gender affirming care to minors, even when privately funded.

21 Dec

How much of Project 2025 has actually been accomplished this year?

CoreyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Far Right Agenda, Healthcare, Project 2025, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

In the months leading up to his election, President Donald Trump insisted that he had nothing to do with the far-right vision for his second administration known as Project 2025, a Christian-nationalist blueprint to remake the federal government. As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that his administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in the document’s 920 pages.

19 Dec

Moments of hope in a year of turmoil

ChaseLatest News2025, DoctorsWithoutBorders, Global, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Trump Administration

Cuts to humanitarian aid funding by the US government and other international donors disrupted care and key programs safeguarding the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, while conflicts, natural disasters, and climate-related events continued to put communities at risk. But as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responded to many of these crises, they also bore witness to moments of hope shining a light on the prevailing human spirit in moments of adversity.

16 Dec

Figures reveal stark reality of US funding cuts as 1,394 family planning clinics shut

RandyLatest NewsGlobal, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration

Survey by world’s largest network for sexual and reproductive health shows devastation to services, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and amplification of anti-rights voices