The Ohio Department of Health produces the Ohio Abortion Report each year that gives information about abortions being performed during a calendar year. A new provision in the Ohio House budget would expand the information collected and make it available continuously: https://www.wosu.org/2025-04-11/ohio-house-budget-changes-abortion-reporting-requirements-to-get-more-patient-information

More state bills seek to criminalize folks who get abortions: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-abolitionists-trump-roe-criminal-homicide-d6d5c7a05419fe9ded04271cb517b001

KFF explains what’s at stake in the Supreme Court case Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/whats-at-stake-in-the-supreme-court-case-medina-v-planned-parenthood-south-atlantic/

In an attack on birth control and other reproductive healthcare, the Trump administration has frozen close to $35 million in Title X funding that was set to be distributed April 1. Republicans want this story to be framed as the defunding of Planned Parenthood but we have to understand that this is a targeted attack… READ MORE>>

RePROs Fight Back, an initiative of the Population Institute, released its 13th Annual 50-State Report Card on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights based on data from 2024: https://reportcard.reprosfightback.com/

URGE (Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity) shared a reading list of Black feminist theory, helping to contextualize concepts within contemporary settings and interrogate their relevance in contemporary discourse. The sections on criminalizing motherhood & reproduction, reproductive justice, and misogynoir are particularly relevant: https://urge.org/a-history-of-black-feminist-discourse-its-futures/

Four lawsuits from anti-abortion extremists challenging the 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy are jeopardizing health privacy and threatening to put pregnant people at even greater risk of criminalization for their reproductive care. Invalidating the 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule would leave patients without the safeguards they need to trust their health… READ MORE>>

Arizona Republicans have sent a bill to the state senate trying to prohibit any doctor in the state from mentioning abortion as an option for their patients, which would effectively ban abortion in Arizona: https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/republicans-advance-backdoor-abortion-ban-despite-voter-approved-protections

With risks to patients and providers growing, folks at Guttmacher are urging states to revisit abortion reporting requirements: https://www.guttmacher.org/2025/03/risks-patients-and-providers-growing-states-should-revisit-abortion-reporting-requirements

Republican Texas state legislators introduced a new bill to target companies and nonprofit funds that allow patients to order abortion pills online or travel out of state for care and would give new power to the state’s attorney general to prosecute abortion providers: https://19thnews.org/2025/03/texas-bill-abortion-pills/