United States – Page 16 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

13 Mar

OB/GYNs Walk Away From Anti-Abortion States

CoreyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, Healthcare, OB-GYN, Reproductive rights, United States

They compared the number of those specialists to state-level abortion policy data collected using a legislation tracker maintained by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit sexual and reproductive rights advocacy group. Researchers specifically focused on 12 states that restricted abortion most following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022 -- Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

12 Mar

Agency Shake-Ups Imperil Worker Reproductive Rights, Protections

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Brand new protections for workers accessing reproductive health care are under threat. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires most employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees’ “pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions,” such as time off work to attend medical appointments.

11 Mar

OB/GYNs ‘vote with their feet’ as workforce declines in states that restricted abortion

MollyLatest News, United Statesabortion ban states, Abortion Bans, Abortion Rights, Abortion Rights States, Health care, OB/GYN, Reproduction Rights, Reproductive care, Statistics, Study, travel for work, United States, workforce decline

“Modest but significant decreases in OB/GYN practitioners occurred in states with full abortion bans following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Association, a study showed. However, results of the case-control study revealed the workforce of such practitioners ultimately grew overall across all states…”

11 Mar

US Sen. Hirono leads colleagues in honoring reproductive care, abortion providers

DoryLatest NewsAbortion Care, Abortion Rights, Dems, Healthcare, United States

U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaiʻi) and Gary Peters (D-Michigan) and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) led 19 of their colleagues in reintroducing a resolution in honoring abortion providers and staff by designating March 10, 2025 as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.”

10 Mar

Abortion bans are changing career calculations for workers who want kids

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, abortion relocation, Abortion travel, employee benefits, Family planning, Health care, job search, job seekers, Reproductive healthcare, Survey, United States

“Employers are navigating a complex benefits landscape when it comes to reproductive health, as they seek to comply with various state laws restricting abortion while ensuring their employees can still access care they need. A recent survey finds reproductive health access is top-of-mind for US adults, and this has implications for HR leaders. Abortion restrictions are prompting some adults to relocate, while reproductive health benefits are proving to be a key factor for job-seekers as they weigh whether to apply for or accept a role. How reproductive healthcare policies are affecting workers, job-seekers. One in five adults planning to have children…

06 Mar

GOP lawmakers push to charge women with homicide for seeking abortions

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Anti-abortion, GOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, United States

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women who seek abortions.

05 Mar

Women for Sale: What Anora’s Success Tells Us

ChaseLatest Newsmisogyny, Sexual Assault, Sexual violence, United States

While Anora is praised for inspiring an end to stigma, it actually reinforces the lack of empathy for what women suffer in all forms of sexual violence.

05 Mar

Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Against Trump’s Anti-Trans Healthcare Order

ChaseLatest NewsTrans Rights, United States

Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth, together with PFLAG National and GLMA, filed a federal legal challenge against a January 2025 executive order from the Trump administration directing federal agencies to withhold funds from medical providers and institutions that provide gender-affirming medical treatments for people under nineteen.

05 Mar

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes

RandyLatest NewsAnti-abortion, Healthcare, legislation, Missouri, Reproductive rights, Republicans, United States

Four months after Missouri voted to legalize abortion, Republican lawmakers are proposing a 100% tax credit — capped at $50,000 per year — for taxpayers who donate to crisis pregnancy centers.

04 Mar

New poll indicates abortion policy could affect employment decisions

RandyLatest NewsBrain Drain, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

A state’s policies on reproductive issues, including abortion, are likely to affect where people decide to take a job or start a family, according to a poll released Monday, and no states with restrictive abortion policies had majority support from those polled.

03 Mar

Commentary: To truly protect abortion access, New York must invest in training

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Providers, Healthcare, New York, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

A growing shortage of trained providers affects not only other states, but many regions of New York, too.

28 Feb

Planned Parenthood to restart regular abortion appointments in Columbia, Kansas City next week

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“Two of Missouri’s nine Planned Parenthood clinics are poised to start performing regularly-scheduled surgical abortions next week, though clinic leadership says access to medication abortions is in the hands of the state. The first elective abortion in Missouri since the procedure was banned in 2022 was performed earlier this month in a Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic. It will now be offering regular appointments for surgical abortions along with the clinic in Columbia, which has not offered the procedure since 2018….”

27 Feb

Anti-abortion advocates split over push to renew Missouri ban with rape, incest exceptions

ChaseLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Missouri, Sexual Assault, United States

A Republican state senator and anti-abortion activists testified against a proposed abortion ban because they believe it doesn’t go far enough

26 Feb

Judge permanently blocks Ohio law on disposal of aborted fetal remains

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion, Healthcare, Ohio, United States

An Ohio law requiring fetal or embryonic remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried violates the constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights that the state's voters approved in 2023, a judge ruled in permanently blocking the law.

24 Feb

Supreme Court rejects challenges to abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ laws that restrict protesters

MollyLatest News, United Statesanti-abortion protests, buffer zone, precedent, Supreme Court, United States

“The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider overturning a 25-year-old precedent that upheld "buffer zone" laws limiting how close protesters can get to abortion clinic entrances. In a setback for abortion opponents, the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority hostile to abortion rights, opted against weighing whether such laws violate the free speech rights of protesters under the Constitution's First Amendment….”