Reproductive Rights News Roundup – April 5th 2025

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We are more than halfway through Legislative Session so we’ll jump right in to where our advocacy is needed most. 
First step, یہاں کلک کریں to send a message to your state House Representative & Senator asking them to oppose anti-abortion and anti-reproductive freedom bills. 
Coming up this week:
  • The bill Attacking Citizen-Led Amendments is in its final Senate Committee on Tuesday. We need all hands on deck to protect direct democracy and our ability to make changes in our community, especially when politicians refuse to act. Click here to contact lawmakers ASAP and ask them to oppose attacks on this process, which is already the strictest in the nation.
  • The bill to Further Criminalize Health Care is on the House floor for a final vote on Wednesday. Bills like this have been used to try to ban abortion entirely, shut down fertility treatments like IVF, and put patients at risk of losing emergency care or cancer treatments solely because they’re pregnant. Tell lawmakers to oppose this unnecessary and dangerous bill!
  • The bill Stopping Young People from Accessing Health Care will be heard in the House Judiciary Committee. Ask members to oppose here.

For a more comprehensive overview of bills we’re watching, یہاں کلک کریں. Even if you’ve taken action on these bills before, each time they move through the legislative process, the links are updated to contact the lawmakers who will be voting next, so keep up the advocacy! 


تقریبات اور رضاکارانہ مواقع

Care. No Matter What. Orlando Dinner w/Planned Parenthood
Care. No Matter What. Orlando Dinner w/ منصوبہ بند والدینیت
Thursday, April 10th at 6:00pm EST
Featuring former Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy.
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Youth Power Convening w/Digital Democracy Project & Partners
Thursday, April 10th at 6:30pm EST
زوم کے لیے رجسٹر کرنے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں۔

4 سیاہ فام خواتین ٹیکسٹ کے اوپر مسکرا رہی ہیں "حمل اور والدین میں بلیک جوی کو بااختیار بنانا"
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.

Who Keeps Us Safe? Training organized by Florida for All
Safety & De-Escalation Training w/Florida for All
Saturday, April 12th 10:00am-6:00pm (lunch provided)
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سائن اپ کرنے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں۔


Birth Justice Days at the Capitol w/Miami Birth Justice Initiative
April 14th-16th in Tallahassee
رجسٹر کرنے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں۔ 

Graphic advertising an upcoming All-Options and Faith Aloud training. Features a photo of a smiling Black woman wearing headphones and looking at a laptop computer. Overlaid text reads, ''Spiritual Support and Counseling Online Training. April 23 - May 28.'' The All-Options and Faith Aloud logos are under the text.
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.
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نیوز راؤنڈ اپ 

فلوریڈا
Wrongful death suits for the unborn would be allowed under proposed Florida law
بذریعہ جیمز کال، یو ایس اے ٹوڈے نیٹ ورک- فلوریڈا
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 (آڈیو)
جیسن گارسیا کے ذریعہ، کرایہ کی تلاش میں
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
جیسن گارسیا کے ذریعہ، کرایہ کی تلاش میں
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.

قومی
What happens to health research when ‘women’ is a banned word?
شیفالی لوتھرا اور باربرا روڈریگز کی طرف سے، 19 ویں
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
کیلسی موسلی مورس کے ذریعہ، اسٹیٹس نیوز روم
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
نینا مارٹن، مدر جونز کے ذریعہ
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.
کیلسی موسلی مورس کے ذریعہ، اسٹیٹس نیوز روم
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
Who We Are • EducateUS
Educate Us is hiring for their Youth Advisory Board.
Apply by 5/23.
Tampa Bay Abortion Fund – Safe, legal, accessible abortion
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is hiring an Executive Director.
$90,000-$100,000/year.
Apply here asap.

American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU is hiring a Summer Social Media intern.
Stipend available.
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is hiring a Digital Organizer.
$38,000-$50,000/year.
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Men 4 Choice is hiring a Communications Director.
Men 4 Choice
is hiring a Communications Director.
$70,000-$85,000/year.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Power to Decide
Power to Decide is hiring a Philanthropy Director.
$108,000-$125,000/year, fully remote.
Click here to apply.

Equality Florida - Wikipedia
Equality Florida & Mukti Fund
 are hiring a Community Organizing Fellow, Grants Fellow, & Health, Education, and Program Impact fellow.
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ERA Coalition
The ERA Coalition
is hiring Public Policy & Social Media interns.
Class credit available.
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