Congressional Briefing on American Indian Women’s Reproductive Health

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM) was part of the record-breaking wave of women candidates who won in the 2018 mid-terms. She and Sharice Davids are the first two American Indian women elected to the U.S. Congress. Now that she is in Washington, Rep. Haaland is bringing attention to the devastating reproductive health challenges faced by American Indian […]

Posted in Healthcare ; Tagged: access to health care, American Indian, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, women's health, Women's rights.

11.20.18

Trump Administration Further Restricts Coverage of Reproductive Health Care

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Emily Fruchterman, Research Assistant at the O’Neill Institute, and Rebecca Reingold. The day after the midterm elections, the Trump administration released a series of new rules likely to have a troubling impact on American women’s access to reproductive care. The first two are final rules that significantly expand the ability of employers […]

Posted in uncategorized ; Tagged: abortion, ACA, birth control, contraception, health insurance, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, women's health.

06.01.18

Ireland Votes to Repeal Near-Total Ban on Abortion

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

On May 25, Ireland eliminated its near-total ban on abortion, just days before women’s right advocates around the world celebrated the International Day of Action for Women’s Health on May 28. With 64% voter turnout, 66% percent voted in favor of repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution — a 1983 measure that conferred equal rights on […]

Posted in Human Rights ; Tagged: abortion, Constitutional Law, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, sexual and reproductive rights, women's health, Women's rights.

05.16.18

A Lack of Consensus around Surrogacy Regulation at the National Level

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

For many years, surrogacy laws around the world have been in flux. Currently, the Canadian Parliament is considering a bill that would repeal the current legal prohibitions against paying for a surrogate. In the UK, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have announced they will review various laws that regulate surrogacy as […]

Posted in uncategorized ; Tagged: child health, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, women's health.

03.05.18

Overcoming Barriers to Legal Abortion in Argentina

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Camila Leone and Rebecca Reingold. On February 22, the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, announced that the country’s legislature will debate a bill that would decriminalize abortion on broader grounds. Currently, abortion is only legal when the pregnancy poses a risk to women’s life or health and in case of […]

Posted in Human Rights ; Tagged: health and human rights, human rights, latin america, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, sexual and reproductive rights, women, women's health.

02.02.18

New "Conscience and Religious Freedom Division" within Department of Health and Human Services

By Sean Bland | Leave a Comment

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced the formation of a new “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division” which will sit in the HHS Office for Civil Rights. HHS says that this new division has been established to “restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable […]

Posted in Healthcare ; Tagged: abortion, LGBTQ health, National Healthcare, religious freedom, Reproductive Rights, women's health.

01.29.18

Understanding Black Women’s Heightened Risk of Maternal Mortality in the U.S.

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Brenna Gautam and Rebecca Reingold. U.S. maternal mortality ratios are the highest in the developed world and are rising, in contrast to global trends. The national rate, however, hides an even more troubling fact: black women in the U.S. die at three to four times the rate of white women […]

Posted in uncategorized ; Tagged: maternal health, maternal mortality, National Healthcare, pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, women's health.

10.20.17

Unconstitutional and Unacceptable: H.R. 36’s 20-Week Abortion Ban

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Brenna Gautam and Rebecca Reingold. Earlier this month, on October 3, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 36, the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.” Under H.R. 36, it is a crime for any person to perform an abortion if the probable post-fertilization age of the fetus is 20 weeks […]

Posted in Human Rights ; Tagged: abortion, health and human rights, human rights, Reproductive Rights, Supreme Court.

08.04.17

Reproductive Rights in Flux: Updates from Latin America and the Caribbean

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Rebecca Reingold and Priscila Valencia. Despite the tremendous strides made towards the realization of reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent decades, the region remains home to the majority of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. However, reproductive rights advocates are leading efforts to change that in […]

Posted in Global Health, Human Rights, uncategorized ; Tagged: abortion, health and human rights, human rights, latin america, Reproductive Rights, women's health, Women's rights.

01.25.17

Reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy: History, Implications & Opposition

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

This post was written by Brenna Gautam and Rebecca Reingold. On January 23rd, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum reinstating the Mexico City Policy, also referred to as the “Global Gag Rule”: a restriction first introduced by Ronald Reagan that denies federal funding to NGOs that provide abortions, offer abortion counseling, or advocate for abortion […]

Posted in Human Rights ; Tagged: abortion, human rights, reproductive health, Reproductive Rights, Trump Administration, UN, United Nations, USAID, women's health.

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