Reproductive Rights News Roundup – February 13, 2026

We have officially made it halfway through Legislative Session (if it ends on time). This week, lots of bad bills progressed, and we’re in a critical time to stop them before their final votes.

Later today, we’ll find out more of what’s on agendas next week. We’ll update this website with what’s being voted on next week, what’s at stake, and how you can help.

Here’s what we know so far:

SB 1134 / HB 1001, Anti-Diversity in Local Government: is in the Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday at noon.

- This bill is a state sledgehammer to stop cities and counties from any action that recognizes and responds to differences based on race, sex, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation, with limited exceptions. It would effectively ban local governments from a range of actions like hosting or supporting Pride events, offering LGBTQ+ cultural competency training, recognizing Black History Month, or having women and minority-owned business programs.
- Take action here.

SB 1632 / HB 1471, Outlawing Activism: is in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice on Wednesday at 10:30am.

- This bill creates a vague, new designation of “domestic terrorist organization” for organizations engaging in allegedly dangerous activities intended to “coerce” the public or influence government policy “by intimidation or coercion.” This kind of unfettered censorship strikes at the core of our democracy.
- Take action here.

SB 1334 / HB 991, New Barriers to Voting: is in Senate Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development on Wednesday at 8:30am.

- This bill would remove thousands of eligible U.S. citizens from the voter rolls and prevent eligible U.S. citizens from being registered to vote.
- Take action here.

Events & Volunteer Opportunities

Self-Managed Abortion in Black Communities (Feb 2026) w/Abortion On Our Own Terms

Self-Managed Abortion in Black Communities w/Abortion On Our Own Terms
Tuesday, February 17th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm EST

Registration closes on February 14th at 11:59pm EST

Disrupting Mis- and Disinformation: Foregrounding Facts on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Against the Threat of Junk Science w/Guttmacher Institute, Georgetown Law, and Author of Liberating Abortion

Tuesday, February 17th at 10:30am EST

A Voice For Reproductive Justice: A Training For Medical Professionals w/ACLU Florida

Wednesday, February 18th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm EST

Virtual Ed Series: Condoms & Beyond: Tools for Safer Sex and Sexual Wellness w/Planned Parenthood of Florida

Thursday, February 19th at 2:00pm EST

EFFecting Change: Get the Flock Out of Our City w/Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thursday February 19th,12:00pm – 1:00pm PST

We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Virtual Launch) w/Haymarket Books

Wednesday, February 25th, 4:00pm – 5:30pm EST

Training Series: Rulemaking 101 w/PRISM

Thursday, February 26th, 6:00pm – 7:00pm EST

News Roundup

Florida

Florida abortion rights advocates push Reproductive Freedom Act
By Douglas Soule, WUSF Tampa
Florida abortion rights advocates are urging the Legislature to pass the Reproductive Freedom Act, which aims to peel back restrictive policies like the six-week abortion ban.

Florida Democrats renew push to roll back abortion restrictions
By Forrest Saunders, WPTV West Palm Beach
Florida Democrats are once again trying to roll back the state’s abortion restrictions, rallying at the Capitol and urging lawmakers to pass the “Reproductive Freedom Act”.

Women’s reproductive justice: Activists aren’t giving up the fight
By Barrington Salmon, Florida Phoenix
It’s not too far-fetched to look at the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 evisceration of Roe v. Wade as the canary in the coal mine.

Sweeping anti-DEI education bill requiring fetal development lessons heading to House floor
By Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics
House lawmakers could soon vote to pass a broad K-12 education bill that, among other things, would mandate new fetal development lessons, tighten school security rules, strengthen math and attendance provisions and further ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) spending.

House Committee OKs parental rights bill requiring teens to get permission for STD treatment
By Gabrielle Russon, Florida Politics
A second House Committee has backed a bill to forbid doctors from treating teens with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or giving them information on contraceptives unless they get permission from their parents first.

Budget insights: House health care spending plan ups the stakes for infant mortality rates
By Drew Wilson, Florida Politics
House budget writers are giving Medicaid managed care plans an ultimatum: Reduce infant mortality or take a pay cut.

Democracy is under siege in Florida
Editorial, South Florida Sun Sentinel
Florida voters adopted the current state Constitution in 1968 to create a modern democracy. Nothing lasts forever.

National

The Next Phase of the Abortion Wars: Targeting Pills, Helpers and Patients
By Ava Slocum, Ms. Magazine
The first year of Trump’s second term marked major blows for reproductive healthcare.

Project 2026. And 2027, and 2028….
By Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day
Before Donald Trump was elected president for a second time, the Heritage Foundation published Project 2025—a 900-page roadmap detailing an ultra-conservative wishlist and how the administration could deliver every single item on it.

Federal and state authorities are taking a 2-pronged approach to make it harder to get an abortion
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation
Anti-abortion conservatives have long sought to force Planned Parenthood’s clinics to close their doors and to make it harder, if not impossible, to get abortion pills as part of a two-pronged approach to limit access to abortion.

They’re Coming for Our Daughters
By Jessica Valenti, Abortion, Every Day
My daughter has had a difficult few months in school. By some administrative fluke, she ended up in a class where she was the only girl—it was just Layla, surrounded by a dozen or so 15-year-old boys.

GOP senators rail at FDA after closed-door briefing on abortion drug
By Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico
Some Senate Republicans emerged disappointed from a closed-door briefing Tuesday with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, saying the agency is not taking a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone seriously and calling for congressional action to curb access to the drug.

Georgia pharmacists would be allowed to prescribe contraception under bill seeking to expand access
By Maya Homan, States Newsroom
Need a prescription for birth control? You may soon be able to get one at your local pharmacy.

Puerto Rico governor signs law to recognize a fetus as a human being as critics warn of consequences

Danica Coto, AP News

The amendment was approved without public hearings and amid concerns from opponents who warned it would unleash confusion and affect how doctors and pregnant or potentially pregnant women are treated.

New research

Just the Numbers: The Impact of US International Family Planning Assistance, 2024
By Samira Damavandi, Elizabeth A. Sully, Amy Friedrich-Karnik, and Mira Tignor
Guttmacher Institute
Foreign assistance for international family planning and reproductive health care is one of the best investments for global development: It saves and transforms lives.