July 18, 2025
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#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown
Hello friend,
On July 11th, we celebrated World Population Day by focusing on this year’s important theme: empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world. For many young people, climate change, financial instability, job insecurity, and housing costs are prohibitive factors to starting a family.
Unfortunately, recent headlines have attempted to sound an alarm on a so-called “fertility crisis.” Political leaders like JD Vance and billionaire kooks like Elon Musk want to force women to have more children. Their weird pro-natalism is coupled with dangerous policies to restrict access to legal abortion and make contraceptives more difficult to get.
In its recent State of World Population report [[link removed]] , the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) identifies the real crisis: the lack of reproductive agency. Beyond reproductive rights, UNFPA calls for “the ability of individuals to make their own free, informed, and unfettered choices about everything from having sex to using contraception to starting a family.”
As a global community, we must remove the barriers to reproductive decision making to ensure people's true autonomy over their own bodies and lives. This includes preventing unintended pregnancies and enabling intended ones, and putting individual agency over national or societal needs.
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You can take action now to protect the right of individuals in the United States to use contraception and the right of providers to prescribe and distribute it by emailing your members of Congress.
Defend the Right to Contraception [[link removed]]
The Rundown
Abortion
* A new California bill would protect out-of-state doctors who prescribe abortion pills by mail to patients where the procedure may be restricted: California bill would protect doctors who mail abortion medication to patients [[link removed]] (NPR, July 7, 2025)
* Abortion confidentiality is under review as two lawsuits have been filed to reinstate the federal ruling protecting the privacy of legally obtained abortions from law enforcement: Doctors, advocates hold out hope for appeals in abortion privacy rule case [[link removed]] (News from the States, July 9, 2025)
* An increasing number of health clinics offering abortion are shutting down, even in states where it's legal, due to intense budget cuts and dwindling funds: More abortion clinics are closing even in states where abortion is legal with further cuts expected [[link removed]] (Milwaukee Independent, July 10, 2025)
* In an effort to restrict abortion pill access, anti-choice zealots continue to spread false claims that mifepristone is contaminating water systems, contradicting the FDA’s research and approval of the drug: Republicans propose national ban on flushing abortions [[link removed]] (Abortion, Every Day, July 14, 2025)
* New York fights back against the Texas Attorney General’s court order to restrict cross-border prescription of abortion pills: New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills [[link removed]] (My Northwest, July 14, 2025)
Domestic Health Care
* Days after Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed, the federal courts sided with Planned Parenthood in their lawsuit against the immediate withdrawal of Medicaid funding: Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding [[link removed]] (NBC News, July 8, 2025)
* Social conservatives continue to target Planned Parenthood by withholding federal funding to family planning services: The Supreme Court and Congress have Planned Parenthood in their crosshairs [[link removed]] (The Week, July 9, 2025)
* Despite the recent federal court ruling, select Planned Parenthood offices are notifying patients that they are no longer accepting Medicaid: Planned Parenthood offices begin rejecting Medicaid after Trump signs bill to defund healthcare organization [[link removed]] (The Guardian, July 10, 2025)
International Family Planning
* The publishing of several human rights reports is paused as important international policy dialogue around gender and women’s rights continues to suffer from the U.S. foreign aid cuts: Women's rights face "full-on assault" due to UN and aid funding cuts [[link removed]] (Reuters, July 9, 2025)
* President Trump threatens fellow Republicans to pass the rescission package that will cut approximately $8.3 billion in foreign aid funding: Democrats warn Trump’s DOGE cuts threaten government funding talks [[link removed]] (The Hill, July 12, 2025)
* In Nigeria, the risk of abortion-related morbidity and mortality is strikingly high, especially among adolescents who are struggling without proper access to reproductive health services: Silent Epidemic: Confronting unsafe abortion and reproductive health crisis facing Nigerian adolescents [[link removed]] (Vanguard, July 13, 2025)
Feeling fired up by the Repro Rundown ? Take action now by emailing your members of Congress to cosponsor the Right to Contraception bill.
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[[link removed]] Lauren Salmiery
National Field Director
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