United States – Page 2 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

04 Feb

Doctors who provide abortion, transgender care could get legal protections under Virginia bill

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Abortion travel, Bill, Doctors, gender affirming care, gender affirming care travel, Health care, legislation, Out of State, out of state patients, protections, Reproductive care, state sovereignty, Trans Rights, transgender health care, United States, Virginia

“Virginia moved closer Monday to shielding doctors from extradition if they provide reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare to out-of-state patients, advancing legislation that underscores the deepening divide over healthcare access and state sovereignty. The Senate narrowly passed Senate Bill 1098, sponsored by Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, which would block the extradition of health care providers facing criminal charges in other states for performing medical services that are legal in Virginia. Every Republican opposed the measure….”

04 Feb

N.Y. moves to shield abortion medication prescriptions after Louisiana indicts doctor

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Pills, Bill, extradition, legislation, Louisiana, mifepristone, New York, United States

“New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana. The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors to request for their names to be left off abortion pill bottles and instead list the name of their health-care practices on medication labels….”

04 Feb

The Time for Mercy is Now: A Call for Mass Clemency for Incarcerated Women

AlanLatest NewsIncarceration, misogyny, physical violence, Sexual violence, United States

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both.

04 Feb

LA clinics lose grant for transgender health care as Trump executive orders take hold

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, Project 2025, Transgender Rights, Trump, United States

A Los Angeles health clinic says it’s losing federal funding as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people.

03 Feb

How Project 2025 Seeks to Obliterate Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

AlanLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, Project 2025, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

Project 2025 promotes a presidential agenda that rolls back civil and human rights and implements extremist conservative policies across every federal department and agency. Its sweeping far-right policy framework,1 by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, includes numerous attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The plan’s far-reaching recommendations would severely limit reproductive autonomy and access to reproductive health care, while turning back the clock on hard-won gains, both domestically and globally. This fact sheet enumerates some of the agenda’s most serious threats to sexual and reproductive health and describes potential effects.

02 Feb

New York doctor faces criminal charges for prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana patient

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Pills, Abortion Provider, Grand Jury, Indictement, Louisiana, New York, Online order, United States

"A Louisiana grand jury on Friday indicted a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a minor patient in the southern state, in what appears to be the first criminal case against an abortion provider since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter and her company Nightingale Medical have been charged with criminal abortion by means of abortion-inducing drugs, The Associated Press reported. The patient’s mother, who prosecutors say ordered the pills online for her daughter, has also been charged with the same felony crime, according to the AP...."

02 Feb

NH abortion ban: Bill to prohibit procedure after 15 weeks, introduced then withdrawn

MollyLatest News, United States15 weeks, Abortion Ban, anti-abortion organizations, Bill, legislation, New Hampshire, United States, withdrawn bill

"New Hampshire legislators introduced — and then immediately withdrew — a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks in the Granite State Monday. The first public hearing on the bill, HB 476, was held on Monday morning in front of the House Judiciary committee. However, prime sponsor Rep. Katy Peternel, R-Wolfeboro, said she had decided to withdraw the bill. “After careful review, it has become clear that there is a flaw in the bill that prevents us from moving forward in a logical, reasonable, or obvious way,” said Peternel in a statement. “Without consensus among the pro-life organizations across New Hampshire, this bill does…

02 Feb

Texas’ abortion ban, among the strictest in the U.S., could get even stricter

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, and during this legislative session, anti-abortion advocates are hoping to foreclose on the few remaining avenues left to end a pregnancy.

01 Feb

Pentagon ends paying for travel for abortion and other reproductive care

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion travel, Biden administration policy, Congress, Funding, Pentagon, Pentagon's Defense Travel Management Office, Reproductive care travel, service member reimbursement, United States

"The Pentagon has rescinded a Biden administration policy that reimbursed service members and dependents for travel to states where abortion and other reproductive health procedures are legal. The Pentagon’s Defense Travel Management Office issued the memo on Wednesday, ending reimbursements immediately. The move, which is already drawing criticism from women in Congress, reverses a 2023 policy enacted under then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin after the repeal of Roe v Wade. The policy provided paid leave and travel reimbursement for troops and their families who had to cross state lines because they were stationed in a state where abortion and other reproductive care, such as in vitro…

31 Jan

Parental rights at center of reproductive health debate

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Civil Rights, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

The anti-abortion movement has framed certain protections for abortion care as attacks on parental rights. Opponents of successful reproductive rights ballot measures in Ohio, Missouri, Maryland and New York often deployed this rhetoric while campaigning. Parental rights were not included in Ohio’s Issue 1 ballot language that passed in November 2023. But that didn’t stop first lady Fran DeWine from saying in an ad that the measure “would deny parents the right to be involved when their daughter is making the most important decision of her life,” Ohio Capital Journal reported.

30 Jan

No Fault of Their Own: Why the Government Needs to Support Domestic Violence Survivors

BarbraLatest NewsDomestic Violence, Economic Abuse, United States

The narrative must be rewritten to create a future that assists their economic security.

29 Jan

Activists whose videos accused Planned Parenthood of selling fetal remains plead to felony

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Misinformation, Anti-abortion, California, Court decision, Felony charges, Misinformation, Planned Parenthood, sensationalism, United States

“Two anti-abortion activists who made sensational videos of Planned Parenthood officials nearly a decade ago pleaded no contest this week to a felony count of illegally recording someone without consent. David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt secretly filmed Planned Parenthood executives in California and edited the clips in a way that purported to show them selling fetal remains. Monday’s plea deal and felony conviction ends a criminal case that has dragged through the court system since 2017….”

29 Jan

Stopping the Abuse of Tech in Surveilling and Criminalizing Abortion

PatLatest NewsAbortion Care, Data Security, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Apps and consumer data could be weaponized to criminalize those seeking, providing, and supporting abortion care, and policymakers and individual Americans should act to protect private reproductive health information.

29 Jan

Trump health pick Kennedy faces US Senate scrutiny over vaccine, abortion views

PatLatest NewsAbortion Rights, GOP, Healthcare, Reproductive rights, United States

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, is set to face a grilling from Senate Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday over his views on vaccines, abortion, and potential conflicts of interest. Kennedy, 70, will appear in front of the Senate Finance Committee at 10 a.m. ET (1500 GMT) on Wednesday. While that committee is responsible for advancing his nomination to the full Senate, Kennedy is also scheduled to appear in front of a second Senate panel that oversees health on Thursday.