August 1, 2025
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#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown
Hello friend,
For the past six months, the Trump administration has been metaphorically lighting everything on fire—whole government agencies, civil and human rights, and any and all environmental protections. Now, they are planning to literally burn something precious: $9.7 million worth of contraceptive supplies already purchased with US taxpayer dollars, which are currently sitting unused in a warehouse in Belgium. Like everything this administration does, this plan is cruel and wasteful, and displays their absolute incompetence.
Being able to control whether and when to have children is a fundamental human right. Contraceptives are the safest, best, and most affordable tool we have for managing our reproductive lives; their return on investment is incredibly high, resulting in fewer unintended pregnancies, fewer maternal and infant deaths, and fewer pregnancy- and birth-related injuries.
The fact that Trump and his deranged enablers would rather light these invaluable medical supplies on fire than get them into the hands of vulnerable people who need them is perhaps the most despicable act in a playbook of despicable acts.
The good news is that a lot of good people are working to prevent this entirely preventable tragedy. The Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act has been introduced in both chambers of Congress, with champion lawmakers Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Brian Schatz and Representatives Gregory Meeks, Grace Meng, and Lois Frankel sounding the alarm on the dire need to save this lifesaving birth control.
In addition to US lawmakers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgium is exploring all options to prevent this destruction, and lawmakers in France, where the supplies will be brought for incineration, are strongly lobbying President Macron to prevent France from being part of this sinister and senseless waste.
The Trump administration has been risking the health and lives of people all around the world all year long. We can’t let them risk the health and well-being of so many more people who deserve to be healthy, safe, and in control of their own lives.
Feeling angry about this terrible waste of lifesaving contraceptives? Take action today and ask your senators and representatives to co-sponsor the Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act.
Tell Congress to save birth control now! [[link removed]]
The Rundown
Abortion
* Three years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, two-thirds of US adults, even in states with the strictest bans, still support legal abortion in most or all cases: How US adults feel about legal abortion 3 years after Roe was overturned, according to AP-NORC poll [[link removed]] (AP News, July 24, 2025)
* A federal judge in Boston ruled that a Trump-backed policy that would cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood is an unconstitutional retaliation: Judge indefinitely blocks withholding of Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood [[link removed]] ( The New York Times , July 28, 2025)
* A federal judge indefinitely blocked a Trump administration budget provision that barred Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health care organizations, ruling that it was unconstitutional, and ensuring the continued delivery of essential health care services: Planned Parenthood can keep billing Medicaid, judge rules in setback for Trump [[link removed]] ( The Washington Post , July 28, 2025)
* Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York county clerk for refusing to enforce a $100,000 fine against a doctor who mailed abortion pills to a Texas woman, escalating a legal battle over cross-state abortion access that may reach the US Supreme Court: Texas sues New York official for refusing to take action against abortion provider [[link removed]] ( The Guardian , July 29, 2025)
Domestic Health Care
* “Progressive pronatalism” undermines reproductive autonomy by commodifying childbirth and reinforcing patriarchal ideologies: ‘Progressive Pronatalism’ is an oxymoron: how arguments buying into the low-fertility panic fail women [[link removed]] ( Ms. , July 18, 2025)
* The Trump administration is warping the Title X family planning program by taking funding away from contraception and putting it toward infertility services and “holistic fertility education”: Under Trump, a new focus for a birth control program: helping women get pregnant [[link removed]] ( The New York Times , July 18, 2025)
* Expanding federal rules to let urgent care centers serve as birthing clinics could ease the US maternal health crisis by improving access in underserved areas and reducing costs: America has a birthing problem — let’s make maternal care more accessible [[link removed]] (The Hill, July 19, 2025)
* Under Tennessee’s new Medical Ethics Defense Act, which permits health care providers to deny care based on moral or religious objections, a pregnant woman was refused prenatal care for being unmarried: A woman says she was denied prenatal care for being unmarried under a new Tennessee law. Here’s what to know about it [[link removed]] ( Time , July 28, 2025)
* A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging a new federal Medicaid policy that wrongly targets reproductive health providers including Planned Parenthood: More than 20 Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over Planned Parenthood funding cuts [[link removed]] (Associated Press, July 29, 2025)
* The Supreme Court’s 2025 Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic decision limits Medicaid patients’ ability to sue states for excluding providers including Planned Parenthood, weakening federal patient protections and reducing access to care: Supreme Court's Medina decision limits options for Medicaid enforcement actions [[link removed]] (Reuters, July 30, 2025)
International Reproductive Health
* House Democrats introduced legislation to stop the destruction of unused contraceptives and food aid, ensuring taxpayer-funded family planning and food supplies are delivered to beneficiaries or repurposed: Meeks, Frankel, Meng introduce legislation to prevent destruction of foreign aid commodities [[link removed]] (Foreign Affairs Committee press release, July 18, 2025)
* YCT-529, a nonhormonal male birth control pill, passed its first human safety trial with limited side effects, marking a major step toward a male contraceptive: First hormone-free male birth control pill shown safe in early human trial [[link removed]] ( Scientific American , July 22, 2025)
* The Trump administration is planning to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of US-funded contraceptives in France after freezing foreign aid and rejecting offers from UN agencies and NGOs to redistribute them: US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say [[link removed]] (Reuters, July 24, 2025)
* The International Planned Parenthood Federation states that the Trump administration’s plan to incinerate millions of dollars in US-funded contraceptives is a deliberate act of reproductive coercion: International Planned Parenthood condemns plan to burn US-funded contraceptives [[link removed]] (Reuters, July 25, 2025)
* The Trump administration wants to waste millions of dollars of US taxpayer-funded birth control, including IUDs and pills that are viable through 2031, eliminating lifesaving resources and undermining global reproductive health care: The US is destroying $9.7 million in contraceptives. Is there another option? [[link removed]] (NPR, July 28, 2025)
Feeling fired up by the Repro Rundown? Take action now by emailing your members of Congress to cosponsor the Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act.
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[[link removed]] Lauren Salmiery
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