United States – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

09 Apr

HHS Directly Gives Crisis Pregnancy Centers Millions of Dollars

CoreyLatest Newscrisis pregnancy centers, GOP, Healthcare, HHS, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Trump, United States

And the federal government is continuing to double down on a “pro-life” agenda.

09 Apr

Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Trump’s Presidential Budget Release

ChaseLatest NewsBudget, Federal Funding Cuts, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Safety Net, Title X, Trump, United States

Trump's budget proposes to further decimate funding for sexual and reproductive care at both the national and global levels by continuing attacks on Planned Parenthood and family planning funds through Title X,

07 Apr

NFPRHA and ACLU Succeed in Fighting to Restore All Federal Family Planning Grants and Dismiss Their Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration

AlanLatest NewsACLU, Healthcare, NationalFamilyPlanningReproductiveHealthAssn, Reproductive rights, United States

The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against the Trump administration following the government’s restoration of all Title X family planning grants that were the subject of NFPRHA’s litigation.

05 Apr

Conflation of Contraception and Abortion — Implications for Access to Contraceptives

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

The false notion that some forms of contraception cause abortion could restrict access to contraceptives for millions of people in the United States.

04 Apr

Federal funding for reproductive health care could lapse Wednesday due to Trump administration delays

PhoenixLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration, United States

Some clinics that rely on Title X grants to provide birth control, cancer screenings and STI testing are making contingency plans as the government appears likely to miss its deadline.

02 Apr

More Than 90% of Patients Are Women: Is this Why This Cardiovascular Disease Is Overlooked?

RileyLatest NewsFemale Health, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Decades of neglect have left clinicians and researchers with an incomplete understanding of the unique features and risk factors that drive cardiovascular disease in women, including FMD.

02 Apr

States with abortion bans target pills sent by out-of-state providers

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, mifepristone, Red States, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

As states that already ban abortion look to further restrict access this year, much of the focus is on pills sent by out-of-state providers.

01 Apr

Heated Rivalries: Conservatives vs. Choice

RileyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Contraception, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

Whether the momfluencers intend to or not, they are part of a larger propaganda machine that’s working to socialize Christian nationalism and far-right ideology, baking it into the minds of young people, one loaf at a time.

01 Apr

Family Planning Clinics Brace for Gap in Federal Grant Funding

RandyLatest NewsFamily planning, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, Trump Administration, United States

"Family planning clinics that receive federal funds face a nearly impossible timeline to secure their next batch of grants at a time when many of these providers are already struggling to stay afloat

31 Mar

Birth Control is Essential Healthcare, but It’s Now Under Attack

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

Reproductive health and reproductive freedom go hand in hand.

31 Mar

Number of abortions holds steady despite state bans and restrictions

MorganLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Post Dobbs, Reproductive rights, United States

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, anti-abortion rights advocates have continuously pursued laws and court cases to make access to abortion more difficult. A new report found those efforts haven’t worked in one basic way: The number of abortions in the country hasn’t budged. A key way that abortions are now happening despite all of the state restrictions is through telemedicine. At the same time, some states passed shield laws, which protect health care providers from legal risks when they prescribe to patients in states with bans.

30 Mar

Dem Women’s Caucus & Reproductive Freedom Caucus Urge HHS to Fund Title X Grants to Protect Critical Reproductive Care After Significant Delay

AlanLatest NewsDemocratic Women's Caucus, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, Title X, United States

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) Whip Nikema Williams (GA-05), Reproductive Freedom Caucus (RFC) Vice Chair Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), DWC Reproductive Health Care Task Force and Liaison Judy Chu (CA-28), and DWC & RFC members Sharice Davids (KS-03) and Dina Titus (NV-01) led 128 Members of the DWC and RFC in 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…

30 Mar

How One Bold Idea for Birth Control Became a National Lifeline

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, leaders across local Planned Parenthood health clinics saw a crisis coming and needed a solution if they were to continue providing birth control to their patients.

29 Mar

Red states move to protect crisis pregnancy centers using model legislation

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Crisis Pregnancy Center, GOP, Healthcare, Red States, Reproductive rights, United States

Conservative lawmakers in multiple states are pushing legislation drafted by an advocacy group that opposes abortion to increase protections for crisis pregnancy centers, organizations that provide some health-related services but also work to dissuade women from having abortions.

29 Mar

Birth control skepticism, teen fertility education center stage at Trump’s women’s health summit

MorganLatest NewsContraception, Healthcare, Infertility, Reproductive rights, United States

Surrounded by hot pink lights and cherry blossom pink drapes on a ballroom stage, family doctor Marguerite Duane offered a seemingly simple solution to infertility: Doctors should have conversations with young girls about whether they want to have children one day.