Congress passed $101 million in funding for teen pregnancy prevention, and President Trump signed that into law as part of his budget bill. But with less than a week to go in the 2026 fiscal year, about $100 million of that funding remains unspent. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
A ballot measure backed by the state’s Republican party would make Missouri the first state whose constitution explicitly bans the procedure. Read more at 19th News
Voters will weigh in on abortion in Missouri, and three other states, in the November general election. Missouri is also one of two states voting on it for the second time since 2024. Nevada will vote again, too. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.
An analysis of CDC data reveals that since Dobbs, women are dying at alarmingly high rates from ectopic pregnancies – in which an embryo implants in the fallopian tube, rather than the wall of the uterus, a condition which has no possibility of leading to a live birth and which is fatal if left untreated. … Read more
Voters in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada and Virginia will address how their states regulate reproductive rights. Read more at 19th News
Maternal fetal specialists should see abortion care as a “core component” of their practice in states where laws restrict abortion, according to a new special statement from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Some 41 states ban abortion at some point in pregnancy, and these legal restrictions make it difficult or impossible for clinicians to … Read more
There are 21.4 million women in the U.S. who need subsidized birth control living in a county somewhere with limited access. That’s the major takeaway from a new analysis of contraception access from two reproductive policy organizations, Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute, shared exclusively with NPR. Both organizations are nonprofit and nonpartisan, and … Read more
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban. Read more at 19th News
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings Read more at The Guardian
Under pressure from anti-abortion advocates and officials, the EPA has agreed to study whether mifepristone and misoprostol are in the water supply in multiple cities. Read more at 19th News
