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Florida’s new Board of Medicine doctor opposes abortion, vaccine requirements
بذریعہ رومی ایلن بوگن، ٹمپا بے ٹائمز
Florida senators are set to confirm four new Board of Medicine appointees, one of whom is ardently opposed to abortion, hormonal birth control and vaccine requirements.

Why is Ron DeSantis Stacking Florida’s Medical Board with Anti-Birth Control Freaks?
بذریعہ جیسکا ویلنٹی، اسقاط حمل، ہر دن
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed yet another anti-abortion doctor to the state Board of Medicine. But Dr. John Littell doesn’t only oppose abortion—he opposes birth control.

Tampa court permanently blocks buffer zone at Clearwater abortion clinic
By Colbi Edmonds, Tampa Bay Times
A Tampa federal judge on Thursday permanently blocked Clearwater officials from enforcing a buffer zone ordinance at a reproductive health clinic, where protests against abortion escalated into public safety hazards.

Mobile clinics offer a practical way to improve health care access in maternity care deserts
By Adetola F. Louis-Jacques, Arielle Ayotte, Michelle Nall, and Adetola F. Louis-Jacques, The Conversation
Only three of the 14 counties in north-central Florida provide full access to obstetric care.

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Georgia woman charged with murder after taking abortion pills and giving birth in hospital
By Madison Foglio, Action News Jax
Action News Jax learned a south Georgia woman was recently arrested and charged with murder after she took abortion pills…and gave birth in a local hospital.

Abortion opponents miffed at Trump’s attempts to dismiss another abortion pill case
بذریعہ صوفیہ ریسنک، اسٹیٹس نیوز روم
For the second time this year, the Trump administration is trying to at least delay another legal attempt to curb access to medication abortion.

‘Medical conscience’ bills would let providers refuse more health care
بذریعہ انا کلیئر وولرز، اسٹیٹس نیوز روم
Legislation in at least eight states would expand the rights of doctors, nurses, hospitals and even insurance companies to refuse to provide or pay for care — from contraception and fertility services to medical marijuana and childhood vaccines — that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.

‘Damaging and punishing’: Birth control clinics serving millions face federal funding cliff
بذریعہ ایلس مرانڈا اولسٹین، پولیٹیکو
Clinics that provide free and subsidized birth control and other reproductive health services to millions of low-income people nationwide are warning that access could soon be cut off if the federal government continues to delay the funding process.

Dissecting Trump’s (Short) Women’s History Month Statement, Line by Line
By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Ms. Magazine
President Donald Trump’s brief (four paragraphs) public statement doubled down on the administration’s regressive societal vision, casting women primarily as caretakers and pillars of the “American family,” while pointing to a slate of policies he claims empower them.

The New Parental Rights Legal Grift (Podcast)
بذریعہ ایمانی گانڈی اور جیسیکا میسن پائیکلو، ریوائر
The Supreme Court’s conservatives are using the shadow docket to redefine family rights at the expense of trans kids.

IVF Treatment Is Expensive—Costco Will Now Offer Cheaper Access
By Erica Sloan, Self
A new partnership between Costco, Sesame (a cash-pay health care marketplace), and IVI RMA (a network of fertility clinics) aims to lower some of the major barriers to accessing fertility care in this country.

State-mandated paid leave programs now cover millions of American workers
By Kevin Hardy, States Newsroom
Nearly one-third of the nation’s private sector workers are covered by paid leave programs as more states require employers to provide medical and family leave, according to a new analysis released this week.

Billion Dollar Baby Bump (آڈیو)
Staff Report, States Newsroom
Since the 2022 Dobbs decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, state governments decide how they’ll regulate abortion. This includes which organizations receive reproductive health funding.

نئی تحقیق

The Fight for Facts: Defending Access to Comprehensive Sex Education from the Anti-Abortion Agenda
By Mollie Fairbanks and Nawal Umar, Guttmacher Institute
Collaborating with the Guttmacher Institute, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change released “The Fight for Facts”, a policy brief examining the new frontline for attacks on reproductive autonomy: the sex ed classroom.

New Attacks on Medication Abortion Distort the Reality of Reproductive Coercion
By Anna Bernstein, Guttmacher Institute
As abortion bans and restrictions proliferated after the fall of Roe, medication abortion, and telehealth abortion care in particular, have become some of the most common and critical ways that people can still access care.

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market
شیفالی لوتھرا کی طرف سے، دی 19^ویں
People are leaving or avoiding living in states with abortion bans, a new paper shows — resulting in lower rental prices and higher vacancies than in states that protect reproductive rights.

Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband
Staff Report, Kings College London
Gen Z men (born between 1997 and 2012) were twice as likely as Baby Boomer men (born between 1946 and 1964) to have traditional views on decision-making within a marriage, with just 13% and 17% of Baby Boomer men agreeing with those statements respectively.