https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2014-12-22-at-11.01.25-AM.png Moving in a New Direction: A Proactive State Policy Resource for Promoting Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice showcases proactive policy solutions that reflect the innovation, commitment, and vision of our movements for reproductive health, rights, and justice. After years of fighting back, one thing is becoming clear—we cannot realize our vision of the world […]
South Carolina: A Sign of Harmful Laws to Come? https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Featured-Story_SCarolina_Bans.jpg Lawmakers in South Carolina have pre-filed an assortment of new legislation aimed at making it harder for women to access legal abortion care and birth control. Worse still, it’s a possible bellwether of what’s to come this year from state legislatures across the country. According […]
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LA Times Op-Ed: Anti-Choice TRAP Laws Exposed https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Featured-Story_LATimes_TRAP2.jpg Anti-choice state legislation has been alarmingly successful at limiting abortion access across the country over the last few years, writes CUNY Law Professor Caitlin Borgmann in an incisive opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times this week. TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws are crafted to […]
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No Health Care for New Class of Immigrants https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/imigrants_obama.jpg A recent piece in the New York Times takes a look at the scope of President Obama’s bold Executive Order on immigration, which promises to shield up to five million people from the threat of deportation. Notably absent from the president’s plan is mention of health […]
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Elle-JusticeGinsberg-NewsStory.jpg If she wasn’t your hero already, take a look at the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Elle magazine for their October issue, and you might reconsider. Writer Jessica Weisberg asks the 81-year-old Clinton appointee about topics all over the map—from the conservative pendulum swing on abortion issues to work/life […]
(REVISED 10.23.2019) This lawsuit challenged an Oklahoma law that would have required physicians providing medication abortions to use an obsolete protocol that does not meet the current standard of care and is less safe and more burdensome for patients. Medication abortion (a combination of the medications mifepristone and misoprostol) is a safe and effective method of […]