The new proposed guidance changes its focus from preventing pregnancies to promoting “natural family planning methods” and suggests that its main goal is to “strengthen family formation and assist clients in achieving healthy pregnancies.” In 2027, the guidance explains, Title X will fund “voluntary family planning projects” that offer a broad range of “acceptable and … Read more
There used to be a consensus on both the left and right that it was best to wait for adulthood to have kids. But some conservatives are rethinking this view, and Republicans are now drifting toward open complaints that teenage girls aren’t having enough babies. Read more at Salon
By demonising birth control, she is toeing the Project 2025 line. Republicans aren’t just content with overturning the right to a safe and legal abortion; they’re also quietly undercutting access to contraception. What’s next? The party of “family values” rallying behind child marriage? Oh, wait, they’ve already ticked that one off. In recent years, several … Read more
This month, the Trump administration renewed its attacks on Title X, the federal reproductive health program that provides birth control to an estimated 2 million low-income Americans. In the White House’s proposed budget, funding for the program was eliminated altogether. Then, the Title X administrators at the Department of Health and Human Services announced new … Read more
A report defends Trump’s mass pardoning of 23 people who were convicted under the Biden administration for violating the FACE Act, saying it was anti-Christian bias. Read more at 19th News
That hasn’t stopped lawmakers in several red states from introducing similar changes for their elections. Certain provisions that mirror the SAVE America Act — particularly going through voter rolls to remove already registered citizens deemed non-eligible — could put up hurdles to voting for married women, trans people and others who have changed their names. Read more … Read more
Judge David C. Joseph, a Trump-appointed district court judge in Louisiana, handed down a credulous opinion this week about the supposed dangers of mifepristone — but didn’t give Louisiana the abortion restrictions it wanted, at least yet. The red state wants to reimpose restrictions on the drug, primarily the in-person dispensing requirement and a ban … Read more
Those protections mean a broader range of plaintiffs can sue the state. Duane said this was the first lawsuit since Dobbs that brings together plaintiffs who illustrate the ways that abortion bans harm people, including women who experience obstetrical emergencies, fatal fetal conditions, ectopic pregnancies, sexual assault and simply being pregnant against their will. “It … Read more
Doyley may be a Black woman living in a red state, but her experience of medical coercion didn’t only happen because of her race (although the statistics clearly show her Blackness probably contributed greatly to why she wasn’t listened to). It’s also a sign of just how far the government plans to go in stripping … Read more
The nearly 70-page document included no mention of contraception other than an assertion that it is overprescribed, has negative side effects, and is part of a broader “overreliance on pharmaceutical and surgical treatments.” The guidance instead promotes “natural family planning methods,” such as period tracking apps and other forms of fertility awareness that have higher … Read more
