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.
HHS to probe states for “discrimination” over abortion coverage
The Trump administration announced last week it’s investigating more than a dozen states that require abortion services to be covered by health insurers. An HHS official framed the probe as an attempt to identify whether the states were “discriminating” against insurers by requiring them to cover the care “contrary to conscience.” The move comes amid GOP lawmakers’ escalating attacks on abortion access at the state and federal levels—all while an FDA “review” of the safety of abortion drug mifepristone is pending.
Olympics officials ban trans women from women’s competitions
Trans women cannot compete in women’s sports at the 2028 LA Olympics—or ever, the International Olympic Committee decreed yesterday. To ensure they bring only “biological females,” countries must now genetically test their female athletes (and not the men). The IOC said its new rule “protects fairness,” but in the two decades the IOC has allowed trans women athletes to compete, few have; none have medaled. “This is solving for a problem that doesn’t exist,” said Harvard Law Prof. Alejandra Caraballo.
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Colorado lawsuit says parental notification law “punishes” girls
Colorado might be at the epicenter of a creative new way for abortion rights advocates to expand abortion access, Carrie Baker wrote in Ms. Magazine this week. There, a doctor is challenging the state’s parental notification law for abortion care, arguing that it violates the state constitution’s equal rights amendment by disproportionately punishing young girls. “There is this fear … that young women are going to have sex for pleasure, and if [so] … they should pay a price for it,” an attorney from the law firm said.
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