A new study from the Center for American Progress examined the impact abortion bans have on healthcare access and family planning for LGBTQ+ individuals: https://prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/SNWSR/SNWSR/1/105131/icJM9o18UVdyp7hCcedTfyzERChpOiBDo96xOa74RHI_archive

NBC addresses Trump’s proposed $5000 credit for giving birth, particularly how the administration is simultaneously dismantling the structures that support families: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/critics-question-trump-baby-bonus-proposal-s-just-completely-bananas-rcna203007

The Trump Administration has threatened to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals, a move that could jeopardize the availability of contraceptives. For low-income folks or those with limited healthcare access, these barriers could result in unintended pregnancies, rising healthcare costs, and harmful health outcomes: https://now.org/urgent-tariffs-on-pharmaceuticals-pose-great-threat-to-contraceptive-access/

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has cut government efforts on IVF, abortion, HIV prevention, Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC), and the CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS): https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abortions-cancer-in-firefighters-and-super-gonorrhea-rfk-jr-s-cuts-halt-data-collection-00284828

The abortion policy landscape continues to shift in the United States, with key changes in how and where folks accessed care last year. Although some states with new laws saw dramatic shifts, the number of abortions provided nationwide held steady, with a slight drop in those travelling for care: https://www.wjbf.com/news/u-s-world-news/study-finds-more-people-are-obtaining-abortions-but-fewer-are-traveling-for-it/

Abortion bans criminalize people – and not just those who are pregnant. Post-Roe pregnancy outcomes, including actions taken to help pregnant people, are facing escalating criminalization: https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-bans-criminalize-people-and-not-just-those-who-are-pregnant/

This week on UpFront, Redi Tlhabi spoke with Michele Goodwin, professor of constitutional law and global health policy at Georgetown University and author of Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. They discussed the renewed push to erode reproductive freedom in the United States (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycQSC4NwTo

Florida Bill 1288 has proposed parental consent for minors seeking birth control or STI treatment which, if passed, would create barriers for young people to receive care: https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/state/2025/04/04/birth-control-and-parental-consent-debated-in-florida-bill/82782029007/

The ACLU explores how immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions. Because of the state’s extreme abortion ban, Texans in need of abortion care are forced to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest clinic. But on top of distance, time, and expense required, noncitizens and those in mixed-status families in south Texas… READ MORE>>

The Cut covers pregnancy criminalization with the case of one 24-year-old woman in Georgia as a recent example. In addition to imbuing fetuses with legal rights, what these cases boil down to in practice is that conduct that otherwise would not be prosecuted — such as drug use or throwing body waste in the trash… READ MORE>>