Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Care. No Matter What. Orlando Dinner w/Planned Parenthood
Thursday, April 10th at 6:00pm EST
Featuring former Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy.
Click here to register.
Youth Power Convening w/Digital Democracy Project & Partners
Thursday, April 10th at 6:30pm EST
Click here to register for the Zoom.
Be a partner for upcoming Black Maternal Health Week.
April 11th-17th
Click here for the partner packet on how to support the Central Florida Birth Network.
Safety & De-Escalation Training w/Florida for All
Saturday, April 12th 10:00am-6:00pm (lunch provided)
Tampa
Click here to sign up.
Birth Justice Days at the Capitol w/Miami Birth Justice Initiative
April 14th-16th in Tallahassee
Click here to register.
Spiritual Support and Counseling Online Training w/All Options and Faith Aloud
April 23rd-May 28th
Learn tools & skills to provide open-hearted, compassionate spiritual support to people in their reproductive decisions and experiences.
Learn more here.
News Roundup
Florida
Wrongful death suits for the unborn would be allowed under proposed Florida law
By James Call, USA Today Network-Florida
A woman potentially could be sued for wrongful death by the father of her unborn baby if she has an abortion under legislation moving in the Florida Legislature.
Florida’s fetal personhood bill raises concerns over criminalizing pregnancy
By Amanda Roman, Independent Florida Alligator
If state lawmakers have their way, a simple sip of wine or a single cigarette — taken before a woman even knows she is pregnant — could become a criminal offense.
Florida Legislature 2025: Driving without brakes (audio)
By Jason Garcia, Seeking Rents
You won’t find the word “abortion” anywhere in them, but two bills that just passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in Florida may ultimately amount to a backdoor expansion of a statewide abortion ban that is already one of the strictest in the nation.
Republican lawmakers in Florida want to silence the state’s top economist
By Jason Garcia, Seeking Rents
Last summer — near the beginning of what became an unprecedented state campaign against a citizen-led constitutional amendment that would have ended Florida’s near-total ban on abortion — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican leaders in the Legislature commandeered an obscure corner of state government.
Florida Planned Parenthood offers prenatal services amid OB-GYN shortage
By Joshua Hightower, WMNF Tampa Bay
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida (PPSWCF) officially launched a prenatal services program on Tuesday.
Interview: Ahead of Planned Parenthood honor, Andrew Warren won’t rule out another run for office
By Ray Roa, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
It’s been almost 1,000 days since Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Hillsborough County’s then State Attorney after he said that Florida’s 15-week abortion ban was unconstitutional.
House passes bill to allow the safe surrender of newborn infants
By Andrew Powell, Florida Politics
The Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure Thursday that would ensure newborn babies can be safely surrendered to authorities.
Senate panel approves bill promoting fertility preservation for state workers
By Drew Dixon, Florida Politics
A second Senate panel has approved a measure that would preserve sperm and eggs of state employees undergoing cancer and radiation treatment.
National
What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word?
By Shefali Luthra and Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th
Daniella Fodera got an unusually early morning call from her research adviser this month: The doctoral student’s fellowship at Columbia University had been suddenly terminated.
Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood’s family-planning grants
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
More than 1 million people seeking care such as contraception or testing for sexually transmitted diseases and cancer could be affected by the Trump administration withholding more than $27 million in Title X funding to Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide, according to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute.
Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding case before the Supreme Court could limit patients’ choices
By Elisha Brown, Florida Phoenix
U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear arguments Wednesday about whether South Carolina can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from the state’s Medicaid program because they offer abortions in a case that could imperil health care options for patients with low incomes.
What’s at Stake in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
By Amy Friedrich-Karnik, Guttmacher Institute
On April 2, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that is—at its heart—about the autonomy and reproductive freedom of some of the country’s most vulnerable communities.
Gold-standard maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave
By Anil Oza, STAT
As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health — and that was considered the gold standard in the field — was placed on administrative leave.
A Win for Repro Rights: Alabama Can’t Charge Activists Helping Patients Get Out-of-State Abortions
By Nina Martin, Mother Jones
In the nearly three years since the US Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion, grassroots abortion funds and advocates have facilitated care for thousands of patients living in states where abortion is banned, helping them find providers in other parts of the country, organize their travel, and pay some or all of the costs.
Seventeen states want to end an abortion privacy rule. A federal judge is questioning HIPAA itself.
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom
The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal investigations, including for those seeking legal abortion and other reproductive health care.
This is a War, and Natalism Is Our Sword and Shield”—My Weekend With the Pronatalists
By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones
Last Thursday night, I attended a cocktail party in the penthouse apartment of an Austin, Texas, highrise.
Speaker Johnson suffers a defeat in his push to block parents in the U.S. House from proxy voting
By Lisa Mascaro and Leah Askarinam, Associated Press
House Speaker Mike Johnson exercised his power of the gavel Tuesday in an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.
Job Openings
Educate Us is hiring for their Youth Advisory Board.
Apply by 5/23.
Tampa Bay Abortion Fund is hiring an Executive Director.
$90,000-$100,000/year.
Apply here asap.
ACLU is hiring a Summer Social Media intern.
Stipend available.
Apply here.
Progress Florida is hiring a Digital Organizer.
$38,000-$50,000/year.
Apply here.
Men 4 Choice is hiring a Communications Director.
$70,000-$85,000/year.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Power to Decide is hiring a Philanthropy Director.
$108,000-$125,000/year, fully remote.
Click here to apply.
Equality Florida & Mukti Fund are hiring a Community Organizing Fellow, Grants Fellow, & Health, Education, and Program Impact fellow.
Learn more here.
The ERA Coalition is hiring Public Policy & Social Media interns.
Class credit available.
Learn more here.
