United States – Page 7 – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

14 Apr

Declining Support for Workplace Inclusion Jeopardizes America’s Nursing Mothers and Their Babies

PatLatest NewsDEI, misogyny, United States

The loss of DEI policies promoting full inclusion of all employees jeopardizes another group: America’s breastfeeding mothers and their babies.

13 Apr

Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts

PatLatest NewsElections, misogyny, Reproductive rights, United States

As the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act heads to the Senate, there has been growing debate on how the bill may affect voting for millions of married women, particularly those who have changed their last names, if it becomes law.

12 Apr

Strict Idaho abortion ban loosened by judge’s ruling on medical exemptions

MollyLatest News, United StatesAbortion Ban, Idaho, judge's ruling, Lawsuit, Loosened abortion ban, Medical exemption, Ruling, United States

"An abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman's death, even if that death “is neither imminent nor assured,” a state judge said Friday in a ruling that loosens one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S. Four women have sued over Idaho's strict abortion bans. The women, who are represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, aren’t asking for the state’s abortion ban to be overturned. Instead, they want the judge to clarify and expand the exceptions to the strict ban so people facing serious pregnancy complications can receive abortions before they are at death’s…

11 Apr

Texas Republican lawmakers unwilling to change abortion laws to address doomed pregnancies

RandyLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, legislation, Reproductive rights, Texas, United States

For the first time since Texas outlawed nearly all abortions, lawmakers are clarifying the “life of mother” exception. But they don’t plan to address cases where the fetus won’t survive.

11 Apr

Bill could open door to civil lawsuits over abortions and drive away OB/GYNs

RandyLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Florida, Healthcare, legislation, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States

It also could threaten access to IVF and cancer treatments. This Florida Legislature continues its all-out attack on reproductive freedom. A near-total ban was not far enough for this extreme anti-abortion Legislature. Although the majority of Floridians — 57% — voted to limit government interference with abortion, Florida’s extreme anti-abortion politicians are ignoring the will of the people and seeking to further restrict abortion access in Florida. Now they are seeking to open the door to civil lawsuits for money damages against doctors — and even the friends, family, and clergy members who help individuals seeking abortion care obtain the…

10 Apr

She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.

MauraLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Funding, GOP, Healthcare, Post-Dobbs, United States

Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.

10 Apr

How one group is educating Oklahomans on reproductive health care amid state abortion ban

ChaseLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Oklahoma, Reproductive rights, United States

Magon Hoffman said she never saw herself as someone who would choose to terminate a pregnancy. In 2022, the Oklahoma City resident went through fertility treatment to conceive her second daughter, Lottie. She said she was excited. But around 14 weeks, Hoffman said she woke up bleeding. What she worried was a miscarriage turned out to be a large blood clot that had developed because a portion of her placenta had lifted from her cervix. She said this basically put her on bed rest for weeks.

09 Apr

A Workforce Without Women?

ChaseLatest NewsHealthcare, Reproductive rights, United States, Woman's rights

Remove women from the workforce, and economies will crumble faster than a toddler’s Lego tower.

08 Apr

‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings

PatLatest NewsGOP, Healthcare, Mass Firings, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward

08 Apr

Strict Abortion Laws In Louisiana, North Carolina Could Get More Severe

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Healthcare, Louisiana, Reproductive rights, United States

In Louisiana, where abortion is banned without any exceptions, a Republican bill would expand the definition of "coerced abortion." In North Carolina, where abortion is legal only up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and has exceptions for rape and incest, a Republican bill would make abortion illegal after conception and eliminate those exceptions.

07 Apr

My mark on history is fighting for women in Idaho, and nationwide, living under abortion bans

PatLatest NewsAbortion Ban, Abortion Care, Healthcare, Idaho, Opinion, United States

Extreme politicians jeopardize the ability of doctors like myself to provide care, especially during an emergency, writes guest columnist Dr. Caitlin Gustafson.

06 Apr

Inside the “Vital” Office for Reproductive Health Gutted by Mass HHS Firings

AlanLatest NewsHHS Firing, Office of Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, Trump, United States

One of the casualties of Tuesday’s massive purge of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an office dedicated to promoting healthy pregnancies.

04 Apr

Half Of Women Cannot Make Decisions About Their Reproductive Health And Bodily Autonomy

AlanLatest NewsBodily Autonomy, Reproductive rights, United States

44% of women still lack autonomy over reproductive health. UNFPA urges data-driven, inclusive action to ensure rights and equality for all by 2030.

04 Apr

New York Attorney General James Condemns Federal Funding Cuts to Reproductive Health Care

AlanLatest NewsFunding, GOP, New York, Reproductive rights, Trump Administration, United States

New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement after the Trump administration notified health care providers that offer reproductive health care that they will no longer receive Title X funding: “Cutting funding for health care providers that offer reproductive care to millions of people across the country is cruel and shameful. Americans from low-income, rural, and minority communities rely on health care facilities that receive Title X funding for cancer screenings, affordable birth control, and so much more. Reproductive health care is a right. Every individual should be able to access this care without obstacles.”

03 Apr

Trump unveils new tariffs and CDC’s IVF team is eliminated

AlanLatest NewsGOP, IVF, Reproductive rights, United States

Public health experts and IVF advocates said they are shocked at the elimination of the CDC's Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team — a group of six epidemiologists, data analysts and researchers that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. Their layoffs were part of the sweeping cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services and come just a week after President Donald Trump declared himself "the fertilization president" while touting efforts to expand IVF.