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We’re excited to bring you U.S. Repro Matters, your go-to source for the latest updates on reproductive health and rights in the United States. This week, the battle over abortion rights continues in states across the country, a new U.S. Supreme Court term begins, and other news on U.S. reproductive rights.
Repro News This Week: October 6

New Jersey state officials proposed a rule to allow midwives to provide abortion care.
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The potential new rule, proposed by the state’s Board of Medical Examiners, would allow midwives to perform abortions through the 14th week of pregnancy and help the state meet the rising demand for abortion care. 

Texas and Yelp sued each other over notices about anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers.”
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Yelp, the business review platform, sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on September 27 to ensure it could continue to notify users that anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortion care. 
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The following day, Texas sued Yelp, claiming that the notices violated Texas law. Yelp argues that its notices are truthful and that Paxton’s lawsuit infringes on its free speech rights. 
A federal appeals court paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked a portion of Idaho’s total abortion ban. 
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After a lower court had blocked enforcement of the state’s abortion ban against providers treating pregnant patients in certain medical emergencies, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on September 28 granted the Idaho Attorney General’s request to pause that order while the state’s appeal proceeds.
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Idahoans experiencing serious pregnancy complications have already been facing denials and delays in accessing care. 
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Did You Know?
The U.S. Supreme Court started its new term on October 2 and is expected to decide several cases on significant issues. One involves whether people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them can possess firearms and whether a law prohibiting them from doing so violates the Second Amendment.
The case, United States v. Rahimi, is scheduled for arguments on November 7. (The Center filed an amicus brief in the case in support of the law, which helps protect pregnant and postpartum people from gun violence.)
In addition, the Biden administration is waiting to find out if the Court will weigh in and reverse a lower court decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA that would dramatically limit access to the key abortion drug mifepristone.
“In their ruthless quest to ban abortion, Idaho politicians are endangering pregnant people and driving so many physicians out of state that Idaho’s entire medical system is on the brink of collapse.”
- Gail Deady, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights
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