Embryo ‘adoption’ answered these families’ prayers. The Christian right is using them to attack IVF https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/05/embryo-adoption-ivf-christian-right #Reproductiverights #Fertilityproblems #Women'shealth #Christianity #Religion #USnews #Health #IVF
“If we’re truly pro-life, we should also be fighting for the life of those #children who are raped & molested,” said the author of the bill, Democratic Rep. Delisha Boyd, who argued that under #Louisiana’s current law young victims of #rape are forced to carry babies to term.
At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/02/at-least-20-planned-parenthood-clinics-shutter-amid-political-turbulence #Trumpadministration #Reproductiverights #PlannedParenthood #Women'shealth #USCongress #USpolitics #Abortion #Health #USnews
The more things change ...
"I gotta think of something to say besides 'fuck'. I think you can say 'fuck', it's a free country. Oh I'm sorry, that's right, you almost probably can't get an abortion soon, and then you won't be able to say 'fuck'. I just wanna say, you should be able to have a fucking abortion, that's right."
#EddieVedder, Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged, 1992
GOP nominee for Virginia governor tries to distance herself from anti-abortion past https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/30/abortion-winsome-earle-sears-virginia-governor-candidate #Reproductiverights #Republicans #Virginia #Abortion #RoevWade #USnews #Women #Race
https://www.europesays.com/2120223/ Critics say new UK police guidelines concerning stillbirths and abortions are fuelling a ‘culture of hostility’ #abortion #GreatBritain #NationalPoliceChiefs'Council #PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveRights #stillbirth #UnitedKingdom
"What is a woman? According to conservatives, she's an incubator.
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #ReproductiveRights #women #healthcare
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"Even though the White House would like to have us believe it is laying low on abortion, make no mistake: The state of reproductive rights is dire in all corners of the country. Today’s column, a summary of just a single week of headlines, paints a spectacularly damning, dystopian picture."
~ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #ReproductiveRights #women #healthcare
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-state-of-reproductive-rights
Trump is using his assault on government to retaliate against women | Judith Levine https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/trump-retaliation-women #Trumpadministration #Reproductiverights #PlannedParenthood #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #Society #USnews #Gender #Women #Race
RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban
" ... statements that echo proposals found in Project 2025, the 900-page playbook published by the Heritage Foundation and for which the EPPC was an advisory board member.
Project 2025 calls to end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills as an “interim step” to revoking mifepristone’s approval altogether."
#healthcare #USpol #reproductiverights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/rfk-jr-fda-abortion-pill-mifepristone
"It's going to be a patchwork of trying to fill in those gaps," Koskenoja said. "But we lost a very functional system for delivering this #care to patients. And now, we're just having to make it up as we go."
"We know that #telehealth cannot bridge every gap; however, the majority of the services #PPMI provides will remain available via the Virtual Health Center & PP Direct, including #MedicationAbortion, #birthcontrol, #HIV services, #UTI treatment, emergency #contraception, #gender-affirming care, & yeast infection treatment. Learn more at ppmi.org/telehealth."
Meanwhile, more clinics & #abortion funds say #patients have delayed #care because of those rising #costs. According to a small Nov-Dec 2024 survey of providers & funds conducted by ineedana.com, "85% of clinics reported seeing an increase of clients delaying care due to lack of #funding."
One abortion fund said the number of patients who've had to delay care until their second trimester "has grown by over 60%" spanning 6 months in 2024.
Suddenly, new #online providers entered the field, advertising virtual consultations & pills shipped directly to your home. And plenty of #patients who still have #access to a brick-&-mortar clinic prefer that option. "Put more simply, it’s gotta change their [#PlannedParenthood] business model," she said.
While the current #TitleX freeze doesn't yet include #PlannedParenthood of #Michigan, #PPMI's chief advocacy officer, Ashlea Phenicie, said it would amount to a loss of about $5.4 million annually, or 16% of its budget.
PPMI didn't shut down any clinics the last time the #Trump admin froze its Title X #funding. …because the funding was stopped for only about 2 years, 2019–2021, when #Biden restored it.
#PlannedParenthood Association of #Utah, where courts have blocked a near-total #abortion ban and where abortion is currently legal until 18 weeks of pregnancy, announced it will close 2 centers in May.
This spring, the #Trump admin began temporarily freezing funds to many clinics, including all #TitleX providers in #California, #Hawaii, #Maine, #Mississippi, #Missouri, #Montana & Utah, according to a KFF analysis.
#PlannedParenthood of #Illinois (a state that has become a post #RoeVWade #abortion destination) shuttered 4 clinics in March, pointing to a "#financial shortfall."
Planned Parenthood of Greater #NewYork is now selling its only #Manhattan clinic, after closing 4 clinics elsewhere in the state last summer due to "compounding financial & #political challenges."
Clinics are also bracing for the #Trump admin to again exclude them from #TitleX, the federal #funding for low- & no-cost #FamilyPlanning services, as the previous Trump admin did in 2019.
#PlannedParenthood of #Michigan (#PPMI) says the cuts are painful but necessary for the organization's long-term sustainability.
