United States – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

21 Mar

Millions of Americans are about to lose access to birth control. Why?

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Untold numbers will get sick as a result. Clinics are scrambling, and no one seems to be able to explain why this is happening

20 Mar

NH’s Pappas and Over 120 Members Urge HHS to Fund Title X Grants to Protect Critical Reproductive Care After Significant Delay

RandyLatest NewsGOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, HHS, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01) and over 120 Members sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy urging him to extend Title X grants that provide critical family planning funding to health care centers across the country after HHS failed to provide guidance for months. Title X-funded health centers are lifelines in their communities, providing high-quality family planning and sexual health care, including cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing, contraceptive services and supplies, pregnancy testing, and other essential health care services.

20 Mar

Birth control clinics rush to reapply for funding after receiving new Trump admin guidance

PhoenixLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump, United States

Federally-funded clinics that provide contraception and other reproductive health services have one week to apply for new grants after the Trump administration released long-delayed guidance Friday night. Current funding runs out April 1.

19 Mar

Family Planning Clinics Have Just Days To Reapply For Title X Funding

MorganLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

The Department of Health and Human Services' long-delayed guidance eliminates verbiage deemed inappropriate by the Trump administration and advises against "non-discriminatory services." Current grants expire April 1.

18 Mar

Politics & periods: Planned Parenthood rally draws first-ever Republican lawmaker speaker – Kentucky

MorganLatest NewsHealthcare, Kentucky, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive rights, United States

Standing in front of a Planned Parenthood backdrop in a pink suit, a Republican Kentucky lawmaker said Thursday “the ability to control one’s own fertility” is “at the very heart” of the right to pursue happiness.

17 Mar

New Attacks on Medication Abortion Distort the Reality of Reproductive Coercion

FlynnLatest NewsAbortion Pills, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

As abortion bans and restrictions proliferated after the fall of Roe, medication abortion, and telehealth abortion care in particular, have become some of the most common and critical ways that people can still access care. In an effort to eliminate these remaining points of access, the anti-abortion movement has launched a campaign of misinformation, junk science, and aberrant policies to try to restrict access to medication abortion.

17 Mar

US pulls away from family planning. What about the $600M saved for it?

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

Despite Congress approving $607.5 million for family planning, new U.S. policies are reshaping how global health funding is spent.

16 Mar

This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control

FlynnLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A newly discovered molecular “switch” supercharges sperm — and could revolutionize both fertility care and male contraception.

13 Mar

Trump and Now-Ousted Noem Have Used Immigration Enforcement as a Weapon Against Reproductive Freedom

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, ICE, Noem, Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Reproductive freedom and safety are inseparable—and the Trump administration has spent the past year demonstrating that with relentless cruelty. The same administration that has systematically attacked reproductive freedom is caging pregnant people in dangerous detention facilities, deporting women in medical distress in defiance of court orders, and terrorizing immigrant communities to the point where pregnant people are afraid to leave their homes to see a doctor.

13 Mar

Reproductive Justice Demands We Call In, Not Just Call Out

CoreyLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Let’s call in those around us to join the work—and call on our government to honor its duty to protect, not control, our bodies.

12 Mar

Trump Admin Must Provide Answers for Horrifying Treatment of Pregnant ICE Detainees

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

Multiple pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women have shared ghastly stories of mistreatment and neglect at the hands of ICE agents

12 Mar

‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff

ChaseLatest NewsContraception, GOP Funding Cuts, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federal government continues to delay the funding process.

11 Mar

NAACP Files Amicus Brief to Support Access to Affordable Contraception

DoryLatest NewsContraception, GOP, Healthcare, NAACP, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

The NAACP signed on to an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President United States of America, et al. In the case, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are challenging regulations enacted during the first Trump administration that expanded the religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit. The exemptions allow employers or universities to impose religious or moral beliefs on their employees and students – blocking them from accessing affordable contraception.

10 Mar

Michigan AG Nessel Defends Access to Birth Control and Other Contraceptive Care

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Michigan, Reproductive rights, United States

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (PDF) challenging the first Trump Administration’s 2017 and 2018 regulations undermining the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of no-cost contraception coverage by employer healthcare plans. The regulations expand religious and moral exemptions to allow employers to strip workers of guaranteed, no-cost coverage for birth control and other contraceptive care and services.

09 Mar

Contraceptive vaccine reduces fertility in animals to address wildlife overpopulation

DoryLatest NewsContraception, Reproductive rights, United States, Wildlife

Patent-pending vaccine stimulates lasting immune response that addresses limitations of current models