Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.
Georgia woman charged with murder for alleged abortion
Georgia’s abortion ban doesn’t allow people who end their pregnancies to be prosecuted. But that didn’t stop police from charging a woman with felony murder—or the news media from plastering her face online. The woman visited the ER for pain in late 2025, after she allegedly took the abortion drug misoprostol. She later delivered prematurely, and staff reported her to the police. The “unprecedented” murder charge, one advocate said to Jezebel, “will cause untold harm to this woman and the women of Georgia.”
Will Title X funding lapse?
Today is the last day reproductive health-care clinics can apply for federal Title X Family Planning Program funding grants, which currently provide more than $200 million for STI testing, breast cancer screening, birth control, and other health services. Clinics expected the Trump administration to issue application guidelines in late 2025, but they didn’t come until last week, creating a scramble to make deadline. Current funding runs out April 1. Since application review can take months, funding gaps are feared, POLITICO reported.
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Judge temporarily bars new CDC vaccine policy, suspends RFK Jr.’s expert panel
HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced multiple setbacks in court this week. Declaring vaccines to be one of science’s “greatest achievements,” a Massachusetts federal judge temporarily blocked the CDC’s updated childhood vaccine schedule. The judge also suspended all members of the CDC vaccine panel picked by RFK Jr., scolding them for endorsing an unscientific plan. Yesterday, a federal judge in Oregon also sidelined RFK Jr.’s attempt to restrict gender-affirming care for minors, declaring he did not have the legal authority to decide that such care is “neither safe nor effective as a treatment.” The decision temporarily allows health-care providers to continue providing these services.
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