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Next Meeting - 07/14/25, 7 PM, Ozark-Dale Library
Focus On the Issues: Women's Reproductive Health, Abortion Denial Versus Pro Choice (Post 2024 Election)
The Hill: Gender gap on abortion rights hit record high: Gallup
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5340439-gender-gap-on-abortion-rights-hit-record-high-gallup/
The Guardian: Women and men diverge more than ever on support for abortion rights, poll shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/women-men-abortion-rights-poll
Planned Parenthood provides basic health care. If clinics close, where will many women go?
Comment: "Citing deep funding cuts, at least 200 Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide are at risk."
Nearly 100 House Democrats urge RFK Jr. to restore millions in family planning grants
Comment: "Nearly 100 House Democrats are calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to restore tens of millions of dollars in federal family planning grants to more than a dozen organizations that have been frozen for more than two months."
A West Virginia prosecutor is warning women that a miscarriage could lead to criminal charges
https://www.aol.com/west-virginia-prosecutor-warning-women-103024367.html
She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
Comment: Do you think this is the 'Deep State' that Trump keeps talking about?
Mother Jones: Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More
AL.com: Controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling ignites AG’s race: ‘Without IVF, I wouldn’t be a mother’
Comment: "The Alabama Supreme Court ruling that that temporarily stopped in vitro fertilization services in Alabama last year has emerged as an issue in the race for state attorney general."
"Former Associate Justice Jay Mitchell, who wrote the opinion, resigned from the court Monday and is expected to announce he will run for AG."
"Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey, who announced her candidacy for attorney general in January, has two children by IVF."
Mother Jones: Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-bill-planned-parenthood-gender-affirming-care/
Comment: "Among them is a plan seeking to defund Planned Parenthood, which the organization warns will affect its ability to provide critical services, including pap smears, cancer screenings, and birth control."
Comment: "The reconciliation bill that was passed now seeks to ban Affordable Care Act health care plans from covering abortion and gender-affirming care for all Medicaid patients, including adults, after initially proposing to ban care for just minors."
AP News: Judge vacates federal rules requiring employers to provide accommodations for abortions
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-workers-pregnancy-civil-rights-eb4bcc821c4932728fcd961757b50552
The Hill: Reproductive-rights groups push against Kennedy’s mifepristone review
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5304436-fda-mifepristone-review-abortion-rights-advocates/
NBC News: How shoddy science is fueling a charge to restrict abortion pill access
Pregnant US woman declared brain dead is being kept alive under state abortion law | Georgia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/pregnant-georgia-woman-brain-dead-abortion-law
A bipartisan group in Texas wants to clarify when doctors can perform abortions : Shots - Health News : NPR
AP News: South Carolina Supreme Court decides heartbeat definition allows six-week abortion ban
The Seattle Times: Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment
The Guardian: RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/rfk-jr-fda-abortion-pill-mifepristone
The Guardian: Conservatives are trumpeting a new abortion-pill study. One problem: it’s bogus | Moira Donegan
Comment: "Dr Stella Dantas, the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, called the paper 'seriously flawed' and said that it 'manipulates data to drive a myth that medication abortion isn’t safe'."
Alabama’s war on abortion help exposed in new reporting
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/05/09/alabamas-war-on-abortion-help-exposed-in-new-reporting/
‘Dismantling one of the strongest tools we have’: Conservatives fret HHS cuts - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/hhs-cuts-pregnancy-data-00336938
Josh Hawley Introduces Law To Ban Mailing Of Abortion Pills, Citing Junk Science Report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/josh-hawley-introduces-law-ban-165304492.html
The Trump administration is defending abortion pill access in court. What? | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/abortion-pill-trump-administration
Comment: "It may seem a victory to some, but experts worry a win will allow the government to be coy about future attacks"
The 19th News: Missouri’s voters restored abortion rights. Their leaders are trying to overrule them.
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/missouri-abortion-rights-laws-protections/
Alabama Can’t Prosecute Groups Helping Patients Get Abortions Elsewhere, Judge Rules - KFF Health News
The Texas Tribune: Wide-ranging crackdown on abortion pills passes Texas Senate
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-senate-abortion-pill-bill/
The Hill: HHS cuts risk undermining reproductive health services
Clinics begin closing as Trump admin continues freeze on family planning funds - POLITICO
The Salt Lake Tribune: Planned Parenthood closing two Utah clinics after Trump cuts all federal reproductive health funds to state
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/04/22/utah-clinics-close-after-trump/
Catholic employers don't have to accommodate workers' abortions and fertility treatments, judge rules - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/catholic-employers-workers-abortions-fertility-treatments-judge/
‘We are failing’: doctors and students in the US look to Mexico for basic abortion training | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/doctors-mexico-abortion-training
The Hill: Abortion is back at SCOTUS — and this time the case could destroy Medicaid
https://thehill.com/opinion/5235450-medicaid-planned-parenthood-supreme/
Alabama lawmaker files bill to jail women for abortions
https://www.alreporter.com/2025/04/08/alabama-lawmaker-files-bill-to-jail-women-for-abortions/
CNN: Alabama can’t prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/us/alabama-abortion-groups-ruling/index.html
Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-weighs-whether-states-123737563.html
Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood. They are asking for the Supreme Court's help
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-want-defund-planned-parenthood-080308681.html
Kentucky governor vetoes GOP abortion bill, says it undermines doctors and endangers pregnant women
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky-governor-vetoes-gop-abortion-234605221.html
The Guardian US: Key court hearing as Alabama threatens prosecutions over abortion support
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/alabama-court-hearing-abortion
The Hill: How RFK Jr. could restrict abortion medication access
POLITICO: 5th Circuit rebuffs ruling against Planned Parenthood
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/5th-circuit-planned-parenthood-abortion-00206327
AL.com: Tuberville celebrates end of ‘immoral’ military abortion policy that led to monthslong promotion stalemate
Column: The population exodus from antiabortion states is underway and may be picking up steam
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-population-exodus-antiabortion-states-110016016.html
POLITICO: Trump signs anti-abortion policies after speaking to March for Life
CBS News: Abortion bans linked to people moving out of state, study says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abortion-ban-laws-linked-to-people-leaving-states-research/
For News Articles links from before the 2024 election that were previously listed here, please go to:
https://sites.google.com/view/demoldnews/home/old-reproductive-rights?authuser=0
There you will find a continuation of the news links & comments from the period prior to the November 2024 election
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