"...legislatures across the country continue to pass laws that grant doula access to Medicaid beneficiaries. Some state laws already require private health insurers to do the same. Since the start of 2025, Vermont lawmakers, alongside Republican-controlled legislatures in Arkansas, Utah, Louisiana, and Montana, have passed laws to facilitate Medicaid coverage of doula services."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/doula-medicaid-state-laws-bipartisan-project-2025-south-carolina-montana/

"Texas health officials are overhauling a program designed to steer people away from abortion following a ProPublica and CBS News investigation that found that the state had funneled tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into the effort while providing little oversight of the spending."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-overhauls-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers-funding

“We really were the only source of safety monitoring in this country,” said one fired CDC staffer who worked on the guidelines, known as the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, or MEC. “There’s no one who can actually do this work.”

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/birth-control-safety-hhs-cdc-layoffs-at-risk-women/

"After Texas made performing abortions a felony in August 2022, ProPublica found, the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54%.

The number of emergency room visits for early miscarriage also rose, by 25%, compared with the three years before the COVID-19 pandemic..."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions

"A North Texas man charged with capital murder this month after he allegedly slipped his girlfriend abortion-inducing medication and caused a miscarriage marks the first time a murder charge has been brought in an abortion-related case in Texas."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/30/texas-abortion-pill-capital-murder-charge-fetal-personhood/

The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.

When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]

https://voices.murica.website/julianne-mcshane/the-costs-of-restricting-abortion-more-than-130-billion-per-year/

The International Provider

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]

https://voices.murica.website/abby-vesoulis/the-international-provider/

Funder, Pilot, Survivor, Physician: Inside the Network Assisting Abortion Journeys

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical […]

https://voices.murica.website/abby-vesoulis/funder-pilot-survivor-physician-inside-the-network-assisting-abortion-journeys/

If you're not a fan of capitalism...

If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...

Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?

If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?

Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?

If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.

Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality

https://archive.ph/NCMS6

Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app

Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it

"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.

As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.

The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"

#UKPol #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveJustice

https://www.tyla.com/news/uk-police-force-checking-womens-phones-period-apps-illegal-abortion-468700-20250606?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwK3BkRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHo9dTikN0i4iv1z06L-2mGDMbTt-B-aQfQdTw9S4YfpfkHlnUeCPJOiHkX1C_aem_0lFBKwqqr27GIRjaumgqfQ

Funny how the conclusions drawn from these reports never include "Oh, the problem is capitalism."

"Roughly 40 percent of respondents cited economic barriers – such as the costs of raising children, job insecurity and expensive housing – as the main reason for having fewer children"

“Governments may need to tax working people more or take on more debt...” [professor of social statistics and demography] Wisniowski noted."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/money-not-infertility-un-report-says-why-birth-rates-are-plummeting?

A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]

https://voices.murica.website/madison-pauly/a-doctors-impassioned-defense-of-later-abortions/

Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]

https://voices.murica.website/nina-martin/forget-dobbs-the-personhood-movement-wants-much-more/

Christian Fascist Youngkin abuses his power with government intrusion in women's lives. Vetoed contraception, and Confederate tax exemption bills again
#FascistGlennYoungkin #ReproductiveJustice
#VirginiaForcedBirthState https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/virginia/youngkin-vetoes-contraception-confederate-tax-exemption-bills-signs-other-bipartisan-measures/

2025 #DavidNorr Youth Activist #Award Winner:
Tatiana Chance

https://www.au.org/youthactivistaward/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9HmVHYa2rQ

Tatiana Chance is a dedicated #Black youth activist, #nonprofit leader, and #advocate for #reproductivejustice with deep roots in her community. Tatiana has a passion for working to restore #abortion access from a religiously motivated ban in her state.

Featured story: “Up until now, the state of #Texas—like most other banned states—has made it very clear they are not interested in providing clarity for providers and patients. And Texas doctors face some of the most draconian penalties in the country.” https://www.texasobserver.org/republican-abortion-laws-texas-legislature-exceptions/