Tag: reproductive rights
Ranglin-Vassell, Quezada to reintroduce bill to require insurance, Medicaid coverage for doula services
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence) and Senator Ana Quezada (Democrat, District 2, Providence) have announced that they will be reintroducing...
Unless Ninth Circuit intervenes by August 19, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England will...
Facing an HHS-imposed deadline of August 19, Planned Parenthood today informed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that unless it intervenes, Planned...
Full video: Rhode Island codifies Roe v Wade into State Law
It took a little over two hours for the Rhode Island Senate to pass the Reproductive Privacy Act, H5125B, a bill to...
Governor Gina Raimondo signs bill codifying Roe v Wade into Rhode Island State Law
Tonight immediately following its passage by the General Assembly, Governor Gina M. Raimondo, surrounded by legislators and women's health advocates, signed into...
Reproductive Privacy Act passes out of Committee and onto Senate Floor
On Thursday the Senate Health and Human Services Committee (HHS) passed the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA), H5125B, out of committee and onto...
Senate rule violation letter from Senators Morgan and de la Cruz
Senators Jessica de la Cruz (Republican, District 23, Burrillville, Glocester) and Senator Elaine Morgan (Republican, District 34, Exeter Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich)...
Unable to get the Reproductive Privacy Act out of Judiciary, in a surprise move,...
Senator Erin Lynch Prata (Democrat, District 31, Warwick, Cranston), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, today surprised everyone by transferring the Reproductive...
Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom: Revised Reproductive Privacy Act properly codifies Roe into...
The Rhode Island Coalition for Reproductive Freedom issued the following statement this afternoon: "The Reproductive Privacy Act (H5125B) achieves...
Abortion debate at Rhode Island State House intensifies
Toni Van Pelt, President of the National Organization for Women, is drowned out by anti-choice protesters in the State House rotunda
The Womxn Project: Failing to pass The Reproductive Privacy Act has consequences
Advocates emphasize the harms that will come if we do not take steps to protect our rights – impacts on community...