January 30, 2026
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#Fight4HER's Repro Rundown
Hello friend,
This month has been long, cold, and brutal. In Minnesota, agents of the federal government—fully empowered by the Trump-Vance administration—have executed two innocent people and shot and injured another. Officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Border Patrol have ruthlessly waged war against the people of Minneapolis, raiding restaurants, schools, and private residences in their quest to rip people from their homes and communities.
On January 24, as he was standing up for a fellow citizen, Alex Pretti was shot 10 times after being swarmed and pushed to the ground by Border Patrol and/or ICE officers. Alex was an ICU nurse working with sick veterans to ease their pain and aid their recovery.
Earlier in the month, Renee Good, a poet and mother of three, was shot three times in the head after trying to drive away from ICE officers who were attempting to remove her from her car.
Five-year-old Liam Ramos, from Columbia Heights, Minnesota, was detained with his father and is now at an abysmal detention center in Texas, where he is reportedly sick and depressed. Somali residents, who have been part of the fabric of Minnesota for decades, have been relentlessly targeted by Donald Trump, as well as ICE and Border Patrol.
These events are devastating—watching carefully analyzed video footage leaves no doubt that both Pretti and Good were murdered, and photos of Liam in the detention center are heart wrenching—but what has given us hope has been the response from the Minneapolis community.
They have consistently protested in sub-zero temperatures, formed neighborhood networks to alert neighbors to ICE and Border Patrol raids, delivered groceries to families fearing detention and deportation, and stood as a model of resistance for the rest of the country.
Trump and Vance aren’t just destroying families and communities here in the US. On January 23, they announced their greatly expanded Global Gag Rule, which now applies to all non-military US foreign aid. While we are still learning specifics about how the expansion will be implemented, we know from previous iterations of the Gag Rule that the policy will devastate access to lifesaving health care, including reproductive health care, for millions of people around the world.
As our #Fight4HER campaign hits the ground in four locations across the country this month and next, we will be protesting and speaking out against the expanded Global Gag Rule, against the $10 million worth of contraceptives being held hostage in warehouses in Belgium, and against Congress and the Trump-Vance administration’s ruthless attempt to make abortion and contraception access nonexistent around the world, including here in the United States.
We will also be speaking out against the atrocities committed by ICE, because attacks on our neighbors—parents, teachers, nurses, children, and friends, regardless of immigration or citizenship status—are an attack on us all.
We know times are tough, and things feel heavy. Thanks for standing with us despite it all to defend reproductive freedom, human rights, and our very democracy.
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The Rundown
Abortion
* Amplify Legal, the litigation arm of Abortion in America, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of four women in Arkansas who claim they were denied necessary abortion care under Arkansas’ archaic abortion ban. Three of the women experienced fetal abnormalities in their pregnancies, and one woman is the survivor of a sexual assault. ( The Guardian [[link removed]] , 1/28/2026)
* The Department of Justice is considering charging anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota with violations of the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for protesting at a church where the pastor is also a higher-up at ICE. This would be the height of irony, since the Trump-Vance DOJ has not bothered to prosecute anti-abortion activists—who inspired the law—and who have violated the FACE Act. ( Abortion, Every Day [[link removed]] , 1/26/2026)
Domestic Reproductive Health
* Maine's Democratic Governor Janet Mills has proposed $2.25 million as part of her supplemental budget plan for Planned Parenthood and family planning clinics, to offset the drastic cuts to Planned Parenthood in Donald Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. ( Maine Morning News [[link removed]] , 1/27/2026)
* The Florida House Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee voted to push forward a bill that would, in part, ban Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid payments. The bill mimics language in Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, which bans Planned Parenthood and other family planning providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements. ( News from the States [[link removed]] , 1/29/2026)
International Reproductive Health
* At the so-called March for Life on January 23, JD Vance announced a significant expansion to the Global Gag Rule. The policy now applies to all non-military US foreign aid and specifically targets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs as well as programs that focus on the ill-defined area of “gender ideology.” ( The Independent [[link removed]] , 1/26/2026)
* Chile’s incoming President, José Antonio Kast, has appointed Judith Marín, a professional anti-abortion extremist, as his Women and Gender Equality Minister. Kast is extremely far-right and is largely filling his cabinet with right-leaning and far-right representatives. ( The Guardian [[link removed]] , 1/21/2026)
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[[link removed]] Lauren Salmiery
National Field Director
She/Her/Hers
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