#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown |
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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, 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. |
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. |
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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 (NPR, July 7, 2025)
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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 (News from the States, July 9, 2025)
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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 (Milwaukee Independent, July 10, 2025)
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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 (Abortion, Every Day, July 14, 2025)
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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 (My Northwest, July 14, 2025)
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International Family Planning |
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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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| Lauren Salmiery National Field Director She/Her/Hers |
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