US Senate – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

17 Sep

IVF Protections Heading for Senate Vote

AlanLatest NewsHealthcare, IVF, legislation, Reproductive rights, US Senate

The U.S. Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a bill aimed at enshrining in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a nationwide right.

25 Aug

Abortion rights won’t be safe with Hogan in the Senate | GUEST COMMENTARY

BarbraLatest NewsMaryland, Opinion, Reproductive rights, United States, US Senate

Two years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and opening the floodgates to a patchwork of abortion restrictions across the United States. Now, in Maryland, abortion rights are on the ballot. I’m not just talking about this November’s ballot initiative that would enshrine reproductive freedom into the Maryland state constitution.

11 Jul

Senate Democrats brought up four more bills to protect reproductive rights. Republicans blocked them.

BarbraLatest NewsAbortion Rights, Healthcare, legislation, US Senate

All but two Republicans voted against a nonbinding bill that would have affirmed protections for abortion.

08 Jul

Why we’re actually fighting over a medical procedure that allows the infertile to have children

AlanLatest Newsconception, IVF, Opinion, United States, US Senate

Not long ago, in vitro fertilization — the medical process by which human sperm and ovum are united in clinical conditions outside a woman’s body and later implanted, giving the otherwise childless a chance at having a child — would have met scant resistance in the chambers of political power.