Abortion pill manufacturer asks to join suit that could rewrite US abortion access
GenBioPro seeks to defend access to mifepristone in suit brought by attorneys general of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas Read more at The Guardian
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“A woman is like a child”: MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power
Conservative women believe complicity will save them. But an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights Read more at Salon
Why PRAMS Got Shuttered
Based on my sources, I can now report that the issue does not appear to be the various ways that comprehensive research on pregnancy might be perceived as bumping up against controversies over abortion and other politicized issues of reproductive health care. The issue is what the administration calls “DEI.” The questionnaires include questions about … Read more
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” in the words of … Read more
Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions
The Save MO Babies Act is the latest in a series of anti-abortion efforts to expand government tracking of pregnant women and abortion patients. Project 2025, the famous conservative policy playbook, suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expand its “surveillance” to force states to turn over data on “exactly how many abortions … Read more
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortions Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and analyzed the outcomes before and after the ban. Read more at ProPublica
Trump’s IVF order: a PR move that gives pronatalists cause for cheer
The order doesn’t fulfill campaign pledges, but does cement the administration’s reputation for promoting childbearing Read more at The Guardian
Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared
The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital. Read more at ProPublica … Read more
Beyond abortion: A timeline of reproductive health care and the true impact on women and society
This is not just about personal choice; it is about national and economic stability and the future of public health Read more at Salon
“It’s not being looked at as a crazy thing”: Emboldened Republicans renew push to restrict divorce
The recent bills targeting no-fault divorce come against a backdrop of a slew of executive actions at the federal level that threaten civil rights and freedoms for a host of Americans. While these state bills have previously failed to gain any traction in their respective legislatures — Republican Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers’ 2024 attempt at eliminating no-fault … Read more