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Join us on 11/3 at 11:30 AM PT for our upcoming webinar, Realizing the Promise of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments, featuring lawyers on the frontlines of litigation and ballot campaigns with insights into these new constitutional guarantees. RSVP: bit.ly/CRHLPReproWe...
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@autonomynews.co received a tip yesterday about concerns that the FDA seemed to have made some sort of change regarding mifepristone.
As it turns out, it wasn’t bad news—a new generic has been approved.
In a letter to Republican attorneys general, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and FDA Commissioner Makary write they’re being driven to act by “recent studies raising concerns about the safety of mifepristone”—citing a report widely panned as "junk science" from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC).
To learn more about the report and hear from advocates leading litigation to secure the protections guaranteed under these new amendments, join our upcoming webinar: Realizing the Promise of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments.
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Today, the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law released a new report, The Promise of Reproductive Freedom Amendments: An Analysis of State Constitutional Protections and Their Impact. Read the report here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
NEW: After Dobbs, voters in ten states enshrined abortion and reproductive rights in their states' constitutions. @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social's @cathrencohen.bsky.social and Diana Kasdan analyze how the wording of these amendments impacts their promise and potential to protect reproductive freedom.
For @statecourtreport.org, Diana Kasdan and I wrote about our new report and how state reproductive freedom amendments have the potential to both reshape the landscape of abortion rights and move us closer to reproductive justice.
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Read the full report here! law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
They also offer a new approach to constitutionalizing a wider array of reproductive and bodily autonomy rights. Virtually all of the amendments codify rights beyond abortion, including protections explicitly protecting pregnancy decisions and care, birth, family planning, and more.
The amendments represent a powerful shift in the state constitutional landscape. At the time they were passed, more than 50 laws banning or regulating abortion were on the books in these ten states. Already, court decisions in four states have applied the amendments to block abortion restrictions.
Post-Dobbs, ten states have ratified constitutional amendments codifying the right to abortion and reproductive rights more broadly. Today @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social released a new report on these amendments and their impact on anti-abortion laws.
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As misinformation about folic acid spreads online, a growing number of supplement brands are selling prenatal vitamins that don’t contain the one ingredient that’s been shown to prevent major birth defects.
CRHLP has released a new report, State Abortion Policies and OB-GYN Residents: How Abortion Policies Influence Career Choices, Relocation Decisions, and Perceived Protection While Providing Care (law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul....
These signatories, who are trained and experiences in conducting and evaluating studies on repro issues, including mifepristone, urge FDA to refrain from imposing additional or increased restrictions on mifepristone based on this flawed report. Read the full letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
Yesterday RFK Jr. cited a report authored by anti-choice advocates to claim that mifepristone is not safe. Last week, @uclarepropolicy.bsky.social & @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to FDA on behalf of 263 repro researchers outlining why its flawed & not grounded in gold standard science.
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...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Through this letter organized by CRHLP and ANSIRH, hundreds of researchers remind the FDA that it’s actions must be based on the sound, rigorous, and transparent science that conclusively proves the safety and effectiveness of mifepristone generally and via telehealth.
Today we and our colleagues at @ansirh.bsky.social submitted a letter to the FDA for over 260 researchers affirming the 25-year safety record of mifepristone and urging the FDA not to restrict abortion pill access based on junk science. Read the letter here: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...
Minors’ Ability to Consent to Contraception and Abortion Services www.kff.org/1d6f093/
"Tying the availability of abortion care to fetal viability invites government interference and moral judgment. It creates categories of 'good' and 'bad' abortions and stigmatizes people who fall into the 'bad' category." @angryblacklady.bsky.social👏👏
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When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. Two lower courts rose to the occasion, preliminarily enjoining the mass firings while the litigation remains ongoing. Rather than maintain the status quo, however, this Court now intervenes, lifting the injunction and permitting the Government to proceed with dismantling the Department. That decision is indefensible. It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out. The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave. Unable to join in this misuse of our emergency docket, I respectfully dissent.
More from Sotomayor's dissent:
"When the Executive publicly announces its intent to
break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the
Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it. ... The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive."
“The federal effort to defund those who provide abortion services is a key tactic for restricting abortion access in states that protect [it] by radically shrinking the pool of abortion providers who can afford to continue operating.” @melissagoodman.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Announcing our resource to stay informed on efforts to restrict or protect access to mifepristone bit.ly/CRHLPMifeTra...! The Mifepristone Litigation Tracker and Federal Action Tracker provide regularly updated info on court cases & federal admin actions that could shape abortion access nationwide
Tomorrow CRHLP Staff Attorney @cathrencohen.bsky.social will be speaking at an event hosted by Planned Parenthood. Hear from folks working in organizing, policy, education, & law. Join us in Orange County at 6:30 PM!
RSVP here:
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