New Resource: Abortion in Florida: Holding the Line in 2025 and the Fight Ahead
The Comms and Research Hub, with support from the Floridians for Reproductive Freedom Coalition, has published the latest update and big picture overview on abortion access in Florida: a post-Legislative Session evaluation, the status of our movement, and our collective messaging. Florida has begun a new chapter: for the first time in recent years, all bills filed in the Florida Legislature attempting to limit reproductive freedom were successfully stopped.
FRF Coalition Meetings & Work Groups
Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Power & Purpose Training w/ACLU
Saturday, June 7th 9:00am-4:30pm EST
Miami
Click here to register.
The Florida Anne Braden Program is accepting applications for the fall/winter program.
The program develops white anti-racist leaders as part of an overall multiracial movement-building strategy.
Apply by 6/8 to join the training program.
In this Together Tuesdays: LGBTQ+ Health Equity w/Planned Parenthood
Tuesday, June 10th 5:30pm-6:30pm EST
Click here to register for the Zoom.
No Kings #Resistance Day of Action w/Pinellas NOW
Saturday, June 14th 10:30am-12:00pm EST
Tyrone Square, St. Pete
Click here for more info.
Self-Managed Abortion in Black Communities w/Abortion On Our Own Terms
Wednesday, June 18th 6:00pm-8:30pm EST
Click here to register for the Zoom (specific to folks in the Black community).
The A Word, Film Screening & Panel Discussion w/RBG Fund
Tuesday, June 24th 5:30pm-8:00pm EST
Tallahassee
Click here to sign up.
Paint ‘n Sip Fundraiser for Tampa Bay Abortion Fund w/League of Women Voters St. Pete
Monday, July 7th 6:30pm-8:30pm EST
The Hive in St. Pete
Click here to register.
Volunteer Training Calls for The Medicaid Expansion Amendment
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays
Learn about how collectively, we could ensure 1.4 million Floridians get access to health care.
Register here for the virtual training.
Join the National Collaborative for Reproductive Justice, Innovation, and Political Education in Social Work
For educators, social workers, and advocates.
Learn more here.
Keep up the pressure to protect Medicaid.
Use this form from National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice to contact legislators today!
News Roundup
Florida
Trump bill’s Planned Parenthood cuts could have ‘devastating consequences’ for Floridians
By Helen Acevedo, WLRN Miami
Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid patients could soon lose their right to choose the clinic as their preferred healthcare provider — and it could have “devastating consequences” on millions of Floridians, according to the nonprofit.
National
Three Years Post-Roe: The Escalating Campaign to Make Abortion Inaccessible Nationwide
By Kelly Baden, Ms. Magazine
It has been three years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, unleashing legal chaos and confusion for patients and providers across the United States.
Trump administration scraps Biden-era policy on emergency abortions
By Nate Raymond, Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday rescinded guidance issued during his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden’s tenure requiring hospitals to provide abortions to women in medical emergencies regardless of various state bans on the procedure.
Since When is Emergency Contraception ‘Controversial’?
By Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day
Looks like anti-abortion groups realized their junk science on mifepristone didn’t land the way they hoped—so now they’re rolling out a second study, hoping this one might just stick.
Four States Ask F.D.A. to Lift Special Restrictions on Abortion Pill
By Pam Belluck, New York Times
In a strategy aimed at countering efforts to further restrict the abortion pill mifepristone, attorneys general of four states that support abortion rights on Thursday asked the Food and Drug Administration to do the opposite and lift the most stringent remaining restrictions on the pill.
Medication Abortion Is Safe—Political Attacks on Healthcare Are Not
By Elise Warren, Common Dreams
Next to the abortion pills in my medicine cabinet lies a potentially risky drug: Tylenol.
Anti-abortion group targets 12 GOP senators
By Joseph Choi, Nathaniel Weixel and Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill
The House-passed bill to advance President Trump’s agenda includes a provision to “defund” Planned Parenthood, a longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement.
Controversy grows over case of brain-dead pregnant woman kept on life support (audio)
By Jess Mador, NPR
Controversy is growing in Georgia over the case of a woman declared brain dead who is being kept on life support because she is pregnant. Hospital officials say it’s because of Georgia’s abortion law.
The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a New Language Trick
By Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day
The latest addition to our growing anti-abortion glossary? “Bereavement rights.”
What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy
By Andrea González-Ramírez, The Cut
Even among people who describe themselves as pro-choice, there’s a recognition that abortions later in pregnancy can be complicated.
After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research
By Katia Riddle, NPR
To most people, the eight-person team was indistinguishable from the hundreds of other scientists and researchers cut in April during the mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.