United States – Page 27 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

07 Jan

How the Mental Health Terrain will be Impacted by the Next Presidential Administration

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“We’ve been through this before. It’s not new, the pendulum swings. We just have to brace ourselves and focus on what we can control.”

04 Jan

Florida doctor faces $10,000 fine in abortion case

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Care, Abortion case, Board of Medicine, doctor, fine, Florida, Healthcare, United States

"After the state Department of Health called for revoking the doctor's license, the Florida Board of Medicine this week issued a final order imposing a $10,000 fine and reprimanding a physician who did not comply in 2022 with a law requiring 24-hour waiting periods before abortions can be performed. The order came after the board decided last month to approve penalties for physician Candace Sue Cooley that were less severe than what the Department of Health wanted...."

03 Jan

Some states on track to restore abortion access, while others push for fetal rights in 2025

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Heading into third year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, states will consider legislation to expand or restrict access to reproductive health care, abortion

31 Dec

Trump’s second term leaves abortion providers and harbor states in uncharted territory

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Since the Supreme Court overturned federally-mandated nationwide abortion access in the 2022 Dobbs decision, states have been enacting ever-tightening restrictions on access to reproductive healthcare.

29 Dec

Faith in Action: The Red Tent Fund and the Fight for Reproductive Justice

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Care, Healthcare, National Council of Jewish Women, NCJW, Reproductive rights, United States

More than half of women of reproductive age enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP live in states that ban assistance coverage for abortion, with very rare exceptions. And about half of those women are women of color. That is according to the National Council of Jewish Women. At a recent event for the local chapter of NCJW, Allison Tombros Korman, founder of The Red Tent Fund, assisting those who need care is a fundamental Jewish value. “For me, Tikkun Olam needs to be more than just repairing a broken world. It needs to be about being proactive in preventing those things…

28 Dec

Abortions are up in the US. It’s a complicated picture as women turn to pills, travel

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Even with abortion bans in place in most Republican-controlled states, the number of people obtaining them has grown slightly

27 Dec

Reproductive health newsmakers included pregnant women, judges and anti-abortion activists in 2024

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Pregnancy, Reproductive rights, travel, United States

Galvanized by a pivotal election almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, patients, doctors, and activists in 2024 fought for renewed and expanded reproductive rights, while others pushed for more restrictions. These are some of the people and organizations that had an impact on reproductive health law and abortion access this year.

24 Dec

The Supreme Court Prepares to Take Its First Shot at Contraception

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A case just added to the high court’s docket takes on the question of whether Medicaid can be used to pay for services at medical providers that also perform abortions.

23 Dec

Are abortion bans across America causing deaths? The states that passed them are doing little to find out.

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In states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to death, succumbed to fatal infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies.

21 Dec

Solicitor General Nominee Sauer Backed Collecting Private Reproductive Health Data

BarbraLatest NewsData Privacy, Reproductive Health Data, Reproductive rights, United States

President-elect Donald Trump’s solicitor general nominee John Sauer has a history of collecting reproductive health data to bolster anti-abortion efforts, another signal the incoming administration is poised to limit access to reproductive care even though Trump recently said he likely wouldn’t restrict access to the abortion pill widely prescribed through telehealth. Sauer led anti-abortion litigation in Missouri, where he served as state solicitor general, and could aid anti-abortion states in taking legal action against states where the procedure is legal.

20 Dec

Brace for the impact of Trump 2.0 on reproductive health rights: Marcela Azevedo

DoryLatest NewsHealthcare, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

As Americans grapple with the impending return of Donald Trump to the political throne, it’s critical to reflect on the chaos of his first administration and brace ourselves for the sharper, more prepared version of what’s to come. As an Intensive Care Unit physician and one of the doctors who helped lead the charge to pass the Reproductive Freedom Amendment in Ohio, I’ve seen firsthand the critical role health care plays in ensuring freedom and dignity.

20 Dec

Maternal mortality data is murky — but the crisis faced by new moms is clear

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Experts say it’s still important to understand why deaths happen and how they can be prevented

19 Dec

When states suppress maternal mortality data, pregnant people pay the price

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Last month, reports emerged of efforts in both Texas and Georgia to halt investigation and analysis of maternal mortality in the years since Roe v. Wade—the Supreme Court ruling that protected the right to an abortion—was overturned. These efforts to hinder examination of the impacts of strict state abortion laws on pregnant people are a political play that only serves to put women and families at risk of even greater harm.

19 Dec

Reproductive health advocates brace for return of Title X challenges under Trump

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Reproductive health advocates brace for return of Title X challenges under Trump

18 Dec

Study finds more TV depictions of abortion this year — but they’re still mostly getting it wrong

DoryLatest NewsAbortion, Reproductive rights, United States

There were more abortion plotlines on TV this year – 66 across 63 shows, compared to 49 last year, according to the annual Abortion Onscreen report released Wednesday by Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a research program on abortion based at the University of California San Francisco.