KFF Health News correspondent Rachana Pradhan joins PBS NewsHour to discuss an investigation that found policies at Catholic-run hospitals restrict reproductive health care (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfx9yJ_kv0

Kansas moved closer Thursday to requiring abortion providers to ask patients why they want to terminate their pregnancies and report the answers to the state: https://kansasreflector.com/2024/03/08/kansas-extremists-cant-ban-abortion-so-theyve-decided-to-harass-innocent-women-instead/

Hawaiian midwives are suing the state of Hawaii over a new law that criminalizes Indigenous birthing customs: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/27/hawaii-midwives-lawsuit-birth-regulation-indigenous

New research from the Guttmacher Institute reveals the barriers to contraceptive health care fall hardest on marginalized communities: https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2/2/qxae016/7603817

Amnesty International interviewed three women on why sexual and reproductive rights are a human rights issue: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2024/03/three-prominent-women-reveal-why-sexual-and-reproductive-rights-are-a-major-human-rights-issue/

In Iowa this week, Republicans advanced a bill that would enshrine fetal personhood by making it a felony to “cause the death” of an “unborn person”: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/iowa-republicans-pass-personhood-bill-critics-say-threaten-ivf-care-rcna142458

Legal historian Mary Ziegler was on Ezra Klein’s podcast to discuss the divergence of conservative and progressive states post-Roe (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-mary-ziegler.html

Colorado Public Radio has a piece on the long-lost history of Colorado women who died trying to get abortions before it was legal: https://www.cpr.org/2024/03/07/denver-public-library-history-of-abortion-access-in-colorado/

Nebraska is now down to one surgical abortion provider less than a year after lawmakers passed a 12-week ban: https://flatwaterfreepress.org/more-people-are-travelling-to-nebraska-to-get-abortions-only-one-surgical-abortion-clinic-remains/

France has explicitly enshrined abortion rights in its constitution in response to the reduction of protections in the U.S.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/france-abortion-constitution/