National Partnership calls out recent effort to downplay U.S. maternal mortality crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 18, 2024 – In case you missed it, the National Partnership for Women & Families is pushing back on a study released last week claiming that...
NEWS: CVS and Walgreens to sell abortion pills this month
by Repro Health Watch | Mar 7, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
The two largest pharmacy chains in the United States will start dispensing the abortion pill mifepristone this month, a step that could make access easier for some patients.
Our Bodies to Our Votes — The Attack on Our Individual Freedoms
by Jocelyn Frye | Mar 5, 2024 | Reproductive Rights
The Dobbs decision poses a fundamental threat to key pillars of a functioning democracy by diluting constitutional and federal protections, preferencing state power over individual freedoms, and handing over greater control to existing – and often, biased – power structures…
NEWS: The GOP Is in Full-Blown Crisis Mode After the Alabama IVF Ruling
by Repro Health Watch | Feb 29, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
To the fellas in the Republican Party: Are we having fun yet with post-Dobbs reproductive rights policy? As was not unexpected after Dobbs, a state Supreme Court (Alabama’s in this case) has determined that frozen embryos have personhood rights, prompting the state’s largest hospital to halt IVF treatments for fear of legal repercussions.
Bills in Limbo aren’t Helping Black Mothers
by Madison Alvarez | Feb 26, 2024 | Maternal Health
In honor of Black History Month, this piece highlights the Black Maternal Health Momnibus act as a labor of love and how keeping these bills in limbo isn’t helping black mothers.
Alabama’s Ruling Weaponizes the Toll of Fertility Treatment
by Shaina Goodman | Feb 23, 2024 | Reproductive Rights
What the Alabama Supreme Court has done in ruling that an embryo counts as a child under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Child statute does not honor the experience of people navigating infertility. Instead the court weaponizes the psychological toll of fertility treatment in service of an extremist, ideological project to undermine reproductive freedom and autonomy.
Disabled employment is at a record high, but disparities remain
by Marissa Ditkowsky, Anwesha Majumder | Feb 22, 2024 | Fair Pay
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual data about disabled people in the U.S. workforce. The data reveal a continued upward trend in disabled employment. However, inequities remain for disabled people, particularly disabled women and disabled people of color.
NEWS: Alabama Rules Frozen Embryos Are Children, Raising Questions About Fertility Care
by Repro Health Watch | Feb 22, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
An Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children has sent shock waves through the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt over fertility care for would-be parents in the state and raising complex legal questions with implications extending far beyond Alabama.
“The Math Ain’t Mathing”: Black Women in Hollywood and the Wage Gap
by Brittany Williams | Feb 16, 2024 | Fair Pay
In light of Taraji P. Henson’s recent interview with Gayle King, this piece discusses how Hollywood continues to undervalue and under pay Black Women actors.
NEWS: Anti-Abortion Centers Raked in $1.4bn in Year Roe Fell
by Repro Health Watch | Feb 15, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
Anti-abortion facilities raked in at least $1.4bn in revenue in the 2022 fiscal year, the year Roe v. Wadefell – a staggering haul that includes at least $344m in government money, according to a memo analyzing the centers’ tax documents that was compiled by a pro-abortion rights group and shared exclusively with the Guardian.
Toward Maternity Care APMs That Improve Outcomes And Equity
by Carol Sakala, Megan Burns | Feb 13, 2024 | Maternal Health
One leading strategy for confronting the maternal health crisis is to advance payment and delivery reforms with the specific aim of improving maternal-newborn outcomes and increasing equity.
NEWS: Florida Supreme Court to Hear Pivotal Battle Over Abortion
by Repro Health Watch | Feb 8, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
Florida abortion rights groups are heading to the state Supreme Court this week as part of their effort to put abortion protections on the ballot in November.
Democracy & Abortion Access: How Underrepresentation of Women in State Legislatures Threatens Freedom
by Jocelyn Frye | Feb 5, 2024 | Reproductive Rights
When the Supreme Court handed down the damaging Dobbs decision, it did not just strip millions of people of their reproductive choices… The Court also deepened the effects of long-standing, systemic efforts to silence the voices of women in our democracy.