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✨ RRLI 2025 Recap ✨ From growing our team and building powerful partnerships, to showing up for reproductive justice in community spaces and the courts, 2025 was a busy year! Thank you to all our partners, supporters, and community for making this work possible. See you in 2026!

Quentrill is one of a small group of midwives trying to fill a gap in critical maternal healthcare that few medical providers offer to residents in West Virginia.

Doctors have reported rising maternal and infant health complications as patients skip essential medical care since President Trump ended protections against immigration enforcement in U.S. hospitals and clinics earlier this year. 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

Since many surrounding states enacted strict abortion bans, pregnant people are seeking care elsewhere, including Carbondale, Illinois -- a small city whose three clinics provided nearly 11,000 abortions last year, primarily for women from other states. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...

Browder has spent more than a decade exposing the overlooked exploitation of Black women in American medical history, unveiling the *Mothers of Gynecology* monument in 2021. She has now expanded her work to combat Alabama's maternal-health crisis. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SANE nurses are a crucial component to the justice process, collecting forensic evidence after an assault, testifying in court, and providing trauma-informed care to survivors. www.cleveland.com/metro/2025/0...

Newly obtained court records show that Texas deputies used Flock Safety’s nationwide license plate reader network to investigate a woman’s self-managed abortion, contradicting claims that they were merely conducting a welfare check. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Join RRLI on Monday, November 17 for our upcoming webinar, Radical Inclusion at the DisCo: Repro Health Self-Advocacy! Learn more and RSVP here: rrli.info/SelfAdvocacy

This community-led effort in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overcame significant barriers to restore access to abortion care and is now expanding services to include contraception, HIV prevention, and gender-affirming care. www.myupnow.com/news/health/...

Update: New Time! Monday, November 3, beginning at 12PT/3ET.

We look forward to learning from @lawmedicinecwru.bsky.social faculty affiliate Prof. @bjessiehill.bsky.social, who will share her wisdom and expertise on reproductive rights at UCLA Law CRHLP's upcoming virtual panel event on Monday, Nov. 3rd!

Despite official guidance directing ICE not to detain pregnant, postpartum, or lactating people, recent reports show that the Trump administration is detaining more pregnant women than ever before in increasingly worse conditions. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

Two House bills currently under consideration could significantly impact abortion care and broader healthcare access in Ohio. Opponents say both HB 324 and HB 410 ignore Ohio voters, who passed a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights in 2023. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/h...

In her op-ed, Dr. Tiffany Green emphasizes that abortion access is not just a medical issue but one of autonomy, dignity and justice. She cautions that focusing only on birth outcomes ties a person's worth to their ability to carry a pregnancy. academyhealth.org/blog/2025-09...

RRLI is excited to announce that our Director, Jessie Hill, will participate in UCLA Law CRHLP's upcoming virtual panel event, Realizing the Promise of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments. The webinar will be hosted on Monday, November 3rd at 11:30 am PT (2:30 pm ET).

Mainstream scientists emphasize there's no proven causal link between the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism, warning that overstating such claims may mislead pregnant people and erode public trust. bwhi.org/2025/09/26/w...

RRLI had a great time tabling at PERIOD Fair 2025 this weekend! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to learn more about reproductive rights and advocacy in Ohio. Special thanks to PERIOD@CWRU for organizing the event, RRLI Director Jessie Hill for speaking, and all of the volunteers!

Jacobs has shared her own expensive egg-freezing experience, and calls current options for military families such as paying out of pocket or leaving the military unacceptable and advocates for more affordable family planning options. www.axios.com/local/san-di...

In a recent report, the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility examines strategies to close the Black maternal-health gap in the U.S., a five-pillar strategy that would tackle racial inequities in healthcare and potentially save an estimated 3,100 maternal lives. www.mckinsey.com/institute-fo...

A new report from UCLA Law’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy reveals that while state amendments have created strong legal tools to challenge existing abortion restrictions, the fight to preserve access to abortion care isn't over. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

Today on Ideastream, RRLI Staff Attorney Becca Kendis participated in a panel discussing reproductive rights in Ohio as well as ongoing efforts by Republican state legislators to propose new laws aimed at restricting or potentially eliminating abortion access. www.ideastream.org/show/sound-o...

Climate change threatens all three pillars of reproductive justice: the right to have children, the right to not have children, and the right to raise children in a safe, healthy environment. These challenges disproportionately affect marginalized communities. tcf.org/content/comm...

The research confirms that abortion bans don’t stop abortion; they just make it harder, riskier, and less equitable.

For women with intersecting marginalized identities, the challenges they face when accessing prenatal, labor and delivery, and postnatal medical care can be deadly due to racial and ableist systemic disparities in the U.S. healthcare system. afro.com/an-overlooke...

The state argues that while the abortion ban itself is invalid, some parts of the law should stay. The ACLU counters that the entire law should be struck down, pointing to Issue 1 and past rulings. www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

The law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations for workers experiencing menopause, similar to protections for pregnancy and childbirth.

Though scientifically unproven, Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) has steadily gained support in the past 18 months from Christian conservatives as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health movement as an alternative treatment to in vitro fertilization (IVF). www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Last week, the Trump administration told the New York Times that they will destroy $10 million of contraceptives, because they “no longer supply abortifacient birth control”. The catch? There is no such thing as “abortifacient birth control.” This is disinformation and must be called out.

Yesterday, the First District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in our case challenging Ohio’s 6-week abortion ban (Preterm v. Dave Yost). In October 2024, we won a permanent injunction blocking the ban under the new Ohio Reproductive Freedom Amendment. The State then appealed that decision.

A federal court allowed the “defund” provision targeting Planned Parenthood health centers to take effect. What does this mean? Patients cannot use Medicaid to pay for their care at Planned Parenthood health centers.

Check out RRLI's Becca Kendis, who was recently featured in Cleveland Jewish News as one of their 2025 "12 Under 36" honorees! ✨ www.clevelandjewishnews.com/becca-kendis...

The lawsuit includes claims of false arrest, malicious prosecution, and breach of medical privacy as well as violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/28/o...

The suit challenges Governor McMaster’s orders blocking Medicaid payments to abortion providers even when the funds are used for non-abortion healthcare services such as annual exams, STI testing, and cancer screenings. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Today we submitted a letter with @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social to the FDA signed by over 200 scientists. The short version? Medication abortion is safe. Time to drop the junk science and move on. law.ucla.edu/reproductive...

BWW’s 26th annual Reproductive Justice Conference “Minding Our Own Black Business,” focused on the impacts of reproductive rights rollbacks as well as immigration, infertility, and healthcare access, calling for reproductive justice that is rooted in policy and advocacy that fosters systemic change.

Researchers found that women who experienced one type of adversity had a 20% higher chance of being diagnosed with endometriosis, while those with five or more adversities had a 60% higher risk. www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

The Trump administration has proposed a rule to ban abortions at VA hospitals for pregnant veterans, even in cases of rape, incest, or health risks. The move would overturn a 2022 Biden-era policy that expanded abortion access following the end of Roe v. Wade. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

On Monday, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld key provisions of the state’s near-total abortion ban. Enacted in 2022, the law allows time-limited exceptions only for the pregnant person's health, rape, incest, or a fatal fetal anomaly. indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/appea...

The federal judge blocked the state from applying consumer protection laws to a group promoting “medication abortion reversal,” ruling it violated the group’s constitutional rights. The group uses progesterone after mifepristone to try to reverse abortions; the method is unproven and experimental.

A 35-year-old unmarried woman was recently denied prenatal care after a physician cited Tennessee’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act, which allows healthcare providers to refuse care based on religious or ethical beliefs. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

A new Texas lawsuit could impact telehealth abortion access nationwide. 19thnews.org/2025/07/tele...

Missouri AG sues Planned Parenthood, alleges that the organization deceived women about the safety of mifepristone.

The ruling blocks the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from excluding Planned Parenthood’s health centers from Medicaid reimbursements for non-abortion services.

A new study from @ansirhorg finds that following the Dobbs decision, abortion has become more expensive and harder to access. stateline.org/2025/07/16/t...

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has launched two new campaigns focused on promoting sexual health, fighting stigma and increasing testing. www.aidshealth.org/2025/07/home...

Data Analysis Reveals Increase in Near-fatal Miscarriages Since Texas Abortion Ban www.propublica.org/article/texa...

On Tuesday, the Fourth Circuit ruled that West Virginia can restrict medication abortion, turning away a challenge by a pharmaceutical company that federal regulations on mifepristone supersede the state’s prohibition. www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circu...