Dear friends, We are living through a defining moment in history. The dual crises of the viral pandemic and civil unrest are causing all of us to be sad, angry and exhausted. In the middle of a deadly and disabling viral epidemic in America caused by COVID-19, we are experiencing historic civil disorder around the U.S. in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Let’s be clear, the violent police killing of [...]
Uplift International’s President, Dr. Beth Rivin, and Board Directors, Dr. Marleen Temmerman and Monica Kerrigan, participated in the ICPD25 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya on November 12-14. This significant 25th anniversary conference brought together over 9,500 people from more than 170 countries to discuss the achievements that have been made in population and development since the 1994 Cairo ICPD and support a new agenda for women and girls in the next decade. Bold commitments were made [...]
The Supreme Court has decided to take up the Louisiana abortion case which would require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals. This is the first major abortion case the Supreme Court will hear since Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined the bench. Read The Hill article!
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction on an abortion law in Georgia which would ban abortions at six weeks of pregnancy, and the law would also define a fetus as a 'natural person'. The judge explained that this law violates the constitution. Read the BuzzFeed article!
The U.S. threatened to veto a U.N. Resolution to end sexual violence in conflict because of the Trump administration’s anti-abortion stance – even when rape is a weapon of war – and the resolution was watered down to pass. Read the Washington Post article!
A federal judge will grant a preliminary injection against the Trump administration’s new Title X rules that would cut off federal funding to family planning clinics that offer abortions or give abortion referrals. Read the Reuters article!
Gov. Evers announced that he would veto the ‘born alive’ abortion bill if the legislation makes it to his desk, which is backed by Wisconsin Republicans and it also mirrors the bill that was vetoed in North Carolina. Read The Hill article!
Gov. Cooper vetoed a bill that would have required doctors in North Carolina to preserve the life of any infant born alive during an abortion, and he explained that there are already laws in place to protect these newborns. Read more
The proposed law in Alabama would make abortion at any stage a felony, even in cases of rape and incest, and the bill also contains language that compares abortion to the Holocaust and other genocides. Read The Cut article!
A bill in Texas would completely ban all abortion procedures, and it would also allow women and medical professionals to be charged with murder for abortions, a crime that is punishable by death within the state. Read more