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Tufts Daily | Somerville City Council bans crisis pregnancy centers
The Somerville City Council passed an ordinance on March 24 banning crisis pregnancy centers, defining them as deceptive, limited services pregnancy centers that do not directly provide or refer clients for abortions or emergency contraception.
Maine Public Radio | New online tool connects women with abortion care providers in New England
A first-of-its-kind online tool to find abortion care in New England is being rolled out on Tuesday by Massachusetts-based Reproductive Equity Now.
GBH | Telehealth abortion is 'revolutionizing' service in some states, including Mass.
“We are not Mississippi, and I would never pretend that we were,” said Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now. “But there certainly are things that we could be doing better to increase access.”
Boston Globe | Extremists rule Texas. Here’s why that matters in Massachusetts.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Texas passed anti-abortion legislation and followed with an anti-trans measure, and then [other states did the same],” said Rebecca Hart Holder, head of Massachusetts group Reproductive Equity Now. “They are working on controlling the rights to create the family of your choosing, by any means possible.”
WBUR | Mass. abortion rights advocates say N.H. restrictions could drive more patients into Bay State
Abortion rights advocates in Massachusetts are concerned the state may see an increase in out-of-state patients because of more restrictive policies in New Hampshire.
Boston Globe | From Texas to Massachusetts for an abortion
If Roe v. Wade is overturned or gutted, it will formalize the huge social, cultural, and legal gulf between states that protect abortion rights and those that will choose to restrict or ban abortion.
Boston Globe | The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on the Mississippi abortion law that challenges Roe v. Wade. Here’s what to know
A Supreme Court pushed to the right by former president Donald Trump will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the most consequential challenge to abortion rights in decades.
Boston Globe | Mass. abortion rights group going it alone
NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, one of the organizations that successfully pushed for the state law that expanded abortion rights last year, is being renamed Reproductive Equity Now after a break with its national organization.
Boston Globe | More than a thousand gather in Franklin Park to rally for abortion rights
Two days before the US Supreme Court opens a session in which it is expected to overturn abortion rights, more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered Saturday afternoon in Dorchester with a unified message: The fight is not over.
Commonwealth Magazine | Insurance should cover full cost of pregnancy
Women shouldn't choose between care and incurring debt
Boston Globe | The law says women in Massachusetts are entitled to a year’s supply of birth control packs. At the pharmacy counter, not so much
Massachusetts residents are still being denied easy access to long-term birth control prescriptions they were guaranteed under a bill Governor Charlie Baker signed into law nearly four years ago.
Commonwealth Magazine | Health insurers to promote 2017 birth control provision
Measure allows women to obtain 12-month supply of pills
Commonwealth Magazine | 2017 birth control provision fell through the cracks
What happens when a law passes and no one pays attention.