Get inspired by Amy Hagstrom Miller who is willing to go to the mat to protect reproductive health access.
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"The lawsuit was filed by Public Citizen Litigation Group on behalf of Doctors For America and names the Office of Personnel Management, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services as defendants."
https://www.newsweek.com/doctors-sue-trump-administration-scrubbing-data-government-sites-2026101
#healthcare #advocacy #physicians #HIV #lgbtq #contraception #ReproductiveJustice #STIs #IPV #DomesticViolence #environment #climate #science #data #research #USpol
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday reinstating and significantly expanding the 'Mexico City Policy.'
The policy cuts off U.S. aid to any foreign organization that provides abortion services, counseling, or advocacy, marking the most extensive version of these restrictions since its creation in 1984."
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-city-policy-trump-abortion-policy-change-explained-2020915
#healthcare #GlobalHealth #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #FamilyPlanning #contraception #USpol
How can philanthropy safeguard abortion rights in challenging times?
Inside Philanthropy explores funding strategies to meet the moment.
#DawnWolfe Reports: https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/funding-strategies-to-support-abortion-rights-during-the-second-trump-administration
#Philanthropy #ReproductiveJustice #SocialImpact #AbortionRights #Equity
"Starting this month, pregnant Iowans on Medicaid have 12 months of coverage after giving birth, a significant increase from the previous cutoff of 60 days.
Iowa lawmakers approved the change in the last legislative session, making the state one of the last to approve the extension after the federal government started offering permanent matching funds in 2021 to states that extended coverage to 12 months."
"We spoke to women who survived terrifying experiences, and we interviewed family members of those who died without care. They all felt unprepared as they entered emergency rooms, unaware of how abortion laws were reaching into pregnancy care.
They wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves and their loved ones.
We created this guide for them and anyone who finds themselves in the same position."
"The new study found that in 2021, crisis pregnancy centers outnumbered abortion clinics 3-to-1 in the U.S., but acknowledged that the figure is probably greater now after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022."
"Aid Access, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills, reported receiving 10,000 requests for the medication in the 24 hours after the election was called for the Republican nominee early Wednesday — roughly 17 times the 600 that the organization typically gets in a day."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/11/abortion-pill-contraception-trump-term/
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #drugs #PrescriptionDrugs #sterilization
"Tuesday’s vote will have an enormous effect on how—and whether—Nyambura and countless other health workers and reproductive rights activists around the world can do their jobs. Thanks to a longstanding rule about abortion that shifts each time the White House changes political parties, every U.S. presidential election pits the American mood against other countries’ sovereignty—and the health of their women and girls."
A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms
It took 20 hours and three ER visits before doctors admitted the pregnant 18-year-old to the hospital as her condition worsened. She’s one of at least two women who died under Texas’ abortion ban
#ReproductiveJustice #voteblue2024protectwomensrights
#AbortionIsHealthcare #gopwaronwomen https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/01/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala/
“They are playing around with the semantics; they are clearly testing out different framing and messaging in an attempt to try and deceive voters because they realize how politically unpopular their policy stances are,” said Jessica Arons, a director of policy and government affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/31/us/politics/house-races-abortion-stances.html
Leaving it to the states gives us the chaos we have now.
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #USpol #elections #elections2024 #vote
"...Arizonans are poised to handily reject the 15-week ban and add abortion protections to their state constitution, just as voters did in Michigan, Ohio and other red and purple states...It’s the latest evidence that even voters who tell pollsters they oppose second- and third-trimester abortions will, when given a chance, vote against government-imposed restrictions on the procedure — regardless of the number of weeks."
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/26/arizona-abortion-ban-test-00185383
"While public opinion surveys rank inflation and the economy as top priorities for Black women, Reuters spoke to 10 activist groups that said they were aiming to mobilize women of color around issues of systemic health care inequities. The effort is part of a 30-year-old movement for 'reproductive justice.'"
#healthcare #PublicHealth #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #MaternalMortality #disparities #elections #elections2024 #USpol
"In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows. The vast majority of those infants had congenital anomalies, or birth defects."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/health/infant-deaths-increase-post-dobbs-abortion-bans/index.html
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #pediatrics #neonatology #InfantMortality #PublicHealth
Biden Admin Wants Health Insurers To Cover Your OTC Birth Control And Condoms
This may throw a wrench in the #FascistForcedBirthers #handmaidstalestate agenda
#BirthControl #ReproductiveJustice https://www.wonkette.com/p/biden-admin-wants-health-insurers
"The request from Kansas, Idaho and Missouri filed Friday would bar the drug’s use after seven weeks of pregnancy instead of 10 and require three in-person doctor office visits instead of none in the latest attempt to make it harder to get a drug that’s used in most abortions nationally."
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #mifepristone #courts #FDA #USlaw
"These backpack bans have made the already difficult experience of navigating one’s period as a teen even more difficult. Menstruating students have nowhere to discreetly keep their hygiene products and instead are left scrambling for covert ways to carry pads and tampons at a time when their bodily changes already weigh on them like shameful secrets."
https://www.thecut.com/article/school-backpack-bans-periods.html
#ReproductiveJustice #schools #WomensHealth #periods #GunViolence #GunSafety
"As part of her nonprofit organization Fund 4 Good, Rodrigo said that all sales would go to Jhpiego — a nonprofit organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University that helps women and families worldwide. Jhpiego provides reproductive health care access, HIV/ AIDS and infectious disease prevention, education, and more."
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-donates-ticket-sales-to-non-profit
#aapi #aanhpi #music #entertainment #healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #philanthropy
"Sen. JD Vance, former president Donald Trump’s running mate, said that if elected, Trump would seek to end federal money for Planned Parenthood...Vance’s comments on Saturday against one of the biggest reproductive health-care providers in the nation stand in stark contrast to recent positioning by himself, Trump and other Republicans on the issue of reproductive rights."
Not the way to earn America's trust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/06/vance-defund-planned-parenthood/
"New York’s constitution, however, currently bans discrimination based only on race and religion, not sex. That could change if voters accept Prop 1’s expansive vision of equality, which includes protections for segments of the population that historically have been marginalized and demonized, including LGBTQ people."
#ERA #NewYork #elections #elections2024 #lgbtq #transgender #USpol #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy
"Starting Tuesday in Louisiana, the two drugs used in medication abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol — will be reclassified as controlled substances in the state, making it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to possess the drugs without a prescription."
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #mifepristone #louisiana
"From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, according to an analysis by the Gender Equity Policy Institute...'All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase. Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states.' "
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #Texas #elections #elections2024 #USpol
"Orlando’s Planned Parenthood clinic is offering pain-relieving medication for those seeking placement of an intrauterine device for contraception.
The clinic is offering IV sedation to encourage more women looking for protection to receive the procedure, as the state restricts access to abortions.
IV sedation is also accessible in Sarasota, Tampa and Fort Myers clinics."
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #contraception #WomensHealth #IUD #insurance #sedation
"For nearly 50 years, the Hyde Amendment has been considered an unassailable fixture of the United States budget. First passed in 1976, just three years after the now-defunct Roe v. Wade ruling, the amendment prohibits federal programs from covering the cost of most abortions, with exceptions for cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening pregnancies."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/08/harris-abortion-hyde/679508/
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #USpol #HydeAmendment
"...Hawkins added that anti-abortion advocates’ long-term goal is to secure a Supreme Court opinion that would grant fetuses rights through the 14th Amendment, adding, 'I don’t think that has been a hidden agenda at all within the pro-life movement.' She’s right about that: The Republican platform has, for decades, cited the Fourteenth Amendment as the key to enshrining fetal personhood in the law and banning abortion nationwide."