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President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order relating to clemency for anti-abortion protesters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington.

Reproductive Rights

In first 100 days, Trump’s moves on abortion echoed Project 2025 playbook

Reproductive Rights

Cuts to Medicaid would affect access to reproductive care for millions of women

Reproductive Rights

Research group says state-mandated abortion data collection should be revisited

Planned Parenthood building

GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood threaten affordable health care services

The toes of a baby peek out of a blanket at a hospital in McAllen, Texas. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the increase of U.S. infant mortality rate to 3% in 2022 — a rare increase in a death statistic that has been generally been falling for decades. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Infant deaths increased significantly after U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Birth control pills.

Doctors back bills to make it cheaper to obtain birth control in Michigan

Activists from all over Metro Detroit met at the 36th District Court in Detroit, Michigan on October 2, 2021 for a rally and march. (Photo by Adam J. Dewey/NurPhoto via AP)

ACLU spends $2M on ads for pro-choice Michigan Supreme Court candidates

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is seen during senate votes in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Republicans block bill that would have affirmed the right to life-saving abortion care

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-MI., speaks during the Republican National Convention Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee.

Bankrolled by pharmaceuticals, Mike Rogers helped block Medicare price negotiation

Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks before President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, at Prince George's Community College, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Largo, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Medicare secures billions in savings on prescriptions

North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, center, speaks while Dave Almeida with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, left, and Gov. Roy Cooper listen at an Executive Mansion announcement on Monday July, 1, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Biden-Harris administration backs action to cut medical debt

DeAnn Roesner

Michigan retiree says the new medication price cap would have preserved her savings