The Meteor shared an update of women’s rights around the world for International Women’s Day: https://wearethemeteor.com/global-backlash-against-women-un-report/

A new study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) exposed how abortion restrictions are influencing where people live and work, resulting in “brain drain” in states with abortion bans: https://iwpr.org/new-study-shows-brain-drain-in-states-with-abortion-bans/

The state Senate of Hawaii passed a bill this week that proposes an amendment to the state Constitution that would shield a person’s right to access contraceptives and make decisions about their reproductive health: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/hi/hawaii/news/2025/03/06/bill-calls-for-referendum-on-protecting-access-to-contraception

Ms. Magazine spoke with John Mullin, founder of Spending Spotlight, a non-profit which is seeking to rally progressive consumers to redirect their individual spending patterns to counter the influence of corporate spending on right-wing causes: https://msmagazine.com/2025/03/07/spending-spotlight-boycott-corporate-funding-repro-lgbtq-rights/ Here is Spending Spotlight’s list of brands and products most closely tied to anti-choice funding: https://spendingspotlight.org/reproductive-rights/

In the DOJ’s first major action on abortion, it dismissed a case in Idaho that sought to protect pregnant people in emergency rooms by ensuring hospitals are providing emergency abortion care to patients as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA): https://reproductiverights.org/trump_admin_drop_case_protecting_abortion_emtala/

Republican state lawmakers in more than 10 states seek to criminalize abortion by introducing “equal protection” bills that would redefine abortion as homicide by defining a “person” or “human being” as inclusive of an “unborn” or “preborn” child: https://www.salon.com/2025/02/27/in-red-states-lawmakers-revive-an-incredibly-regressive-push-to-treat-abortion-as/

Jessica Valenti explains how Indiana’s newest edits to a contraception bill reveal the GOP’s plan to ban contraception by redefining it and preventing access: https://substack.com/redirect/c25ba995-18b5-4a90-9dc1-4866ae82af05?j=eyJ1IjoiMmJmNDNyIn0.wqZp81JWWbXIOZ2ALmWhYsnFIs9qrz2Du1FnlZkYkT0

At Abortion in America, an event in Texas, a panel of men shared their stories and called on each other to speak out for reproductive rights: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/texas-abortion-event-men-call-each-other-speak-out-reproductive-rights

A guide for sex workers from sex workers on how to navigate abortion: https://www.ineedana.com/blog/a-sex-workers-guide-to-navigating-abortion

Experts dispel common myths about contraception: https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/misconceptions-about-contraception-overshadow-the-facts-expert-dispels-common-myths/ar-AA1z94aA?ocid=BingNewsVerp