فلوریڈا

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.

قومی

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.

وفاقی اور ریاستی حکام اسقاط حمل کو مشکل بنانے کے لیے 2 جہتی طریقہ اختیار کر رہے ہیں۔
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation
اسقاط حمل کے مخالف قدامت پسندوں نے طویل عرصے سے منصوبہ بند پیرنٹہوڈ کے کلینکس کو اپنے دروازے بند کرنے پر مجبور کرنے کی کوشش کی ہے اور اسقاط حمل تک رسائی کو محدود کرنے کے لیے دو جہتی نقطہ نظر کے حصے کے طور پر اسقاط حمل کی گولیاں حاصل کرنے کے لیے، اگر ناممکن نہیں تو اسے مشکل بنانا ہے۔.

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.

نئی تحقیق

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