Health Justice
Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

“Medicaid covers over 40 percent of births in the United States, and an even higher percentage in rural areas. According to an analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit advocacy organization, “144 rural hospitals across the country with labor and delivery units are at risk of closure or severe service cutbacks” based on the Medicaid cuts outlined in the bill. That’s in addition to the over 100 rural labor and delivery units that have closed or plan to close since 2020.”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

How Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will affect women – Fortune

“A key tenet of the bill’s current iteration is a whopping $1.1 trillion in cuts over the next decade to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Currently, 24 million women are enrolled in Medicaid; 56% of those women are of reproductive age, according to research from the National Partnership for Women and Families. Women of color make up over half of this group as well.”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

The Senate’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies – Mother Jones

“The historically brutal Medicaid cuts—a staggering $930 billion slashed from the program over the next decade—could force as many as 144 rural hospitals around the US to close their labor-and-delivery units or drastically scale back services, a new analysis by the National Partnership for Women & Families projects. That could have potentially catastrophic consequences for maternal and infant health. ‘When somebody is in labor or having a pregnancy-related emergency, every second counts,’ says Rolonda Donelson, lead author of the analysis. ‘And with these hospital closures, people are going to have to travel further and further to get the help that they need.’”

Republican Budget Bill Will Harm Millions of Women and Families

Supreme Court Limits Medicaid Patients’ Right to Choose Their Health Care Provider

Today, in a new decision (Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic), the Supreme Court has made it harder for people in South Carolina with Medicaid coverage to choose their health care provider and limited their ability to challenge that restriction in court. The decision now opens the door for other states to exclude Planned Parenthood from their state Medicaid programs.

Republican Budget Bill Will Harm Millions of Women and Families

Trump Administration Refuses To Allow Pregnant Patients To Access Abortion in Medical Emergencies

When a health crisis or emergency arises, and when minutes and seconds can be the difference between life or death, it is critical to ensure that patients receive the care that they need quickly and without hesitation. This week, the Trump Administration made this task harder by revoking guidance clarifying that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) applies in cases where abortion care is necessary to stabilize a patient, even when there is a state abortion ban in place.

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

The GOP Is About To Make It Even Harder To Have Kids – HuffPost

“’It’s the largest proposed cut to Medicaid in its 60-year history,’ said Sarah Coombs, the director for health system transformation at the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting reproductive health and rights. ‘If this bill passes, the effects are so pervasive I think it will be significantly hard to come back from it.'”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

Health Care Coverage Could Be Expanded To Millions of Americans – Newsweek

“The bill, titled Covering Outstanding Vulnerable Expansion-Eligible Residents Now (COVER Now), would provide options for states that have refused the expansion of Medicaid. […] The bill is endorsed by a number of prominent health organizations including UnidosUS, Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, National Partnership for Women & Families, American Diabetes Association, National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Multiple Sclerosis Society.”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

Black feminists launch billboards highlighting abortion in north Omaha – KMTV News Omaha

“‘The former president has been all over the map in terms of what he says about abortion access, about reproductive rights and about access to different forms of reproductive health care,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘There is an active effort to really deny folks access to IVF and other sorts of reproductive health care. People are right to be worried.'”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

Could Trump administration usher in mandates to cover IVF treatment? Maryland is there already. – The Baltimore Sun

“‘The former president has been all over the map in terms of what he says about abortion access, about reproductive rights and about access to different forms of reproductive health care,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘There is an active effort to really deny folks access to IVF and other sorts of reproductive health care. People are right to be worried.'”

Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America – The New York Times

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics – 404 Media

“‘Warrantless law enforcement access to digital information related to reproductive health care, including location data, threatens reproductive freedom,’ Ashley Emery, senior policy analyst, reproductive health and rights at the non-profit the National Partnership for Women & Families, told 404 Media. ‘If law enforcement can bypass court approval needed to obtain sensitive data and instead use this new surveillance tool to track pregnant people and build cases against them, the implications for abortion and pregnancy criminalization are alarming. This risk is especially salient for Black women, brown women, and low-income women, who are already over-surveilled and over-policed.'”