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.
Wyoming ultrasound and waiting law violates state constitution, medication abortion can resume in Missouri: courts
A district judge in Wyoming struck down three 2025 anti-abortion laws on June 12, saying they infringed on people’s constitutional right to make their own health-care decisions. One law required a 48-hour waiting period and ultrasound before getting abortion care; another tightened regulations on abortion clinics; and the third would’ve barred prescribing abortion drugs outside their FDA-approved use. Abortion providers and advocates sued in 2025, and got the laws temporarily blocked, but last week’s ruling killed them.
And in Missouri, medication abortions are set to resume at Planned Parenthood affiliates next week after a judge on Thursday struck down restrictions that halted this kind of care in 2018. Missourians voted to constitutionally protect abortion rights in 2024, but in practice a slew of regulations has limited access to care.
Idaho can’t enforce its anti-trans bathroom ban—for now: judge
A federal judge has partly blocked Idaho’s bathroom ban before it could take effect on July 1. The March law outlaws using a bathroom or changing room that doesn’t match one’s birth sex in all public facilities and many private businesses. Six trans Idahoans sued, arguing the ban violated their constitutional rights. In a June 16 ruling, the judge agreed that the law risks “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Her injunction allows trans people to use a single-stall bathroom (or, if one’s not free, a multi-stall) but not locker rooms.
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New HHS guidelines refer to embryos as “children”
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant program now classifies embryos as children, under new Trump administration language. Reproductive rights advocates say the revised program, which funds embryo adoption awareness projects, attempts to validate fetal “personhood” language at the federal level. It “gives anti-abortion extremists so-called ‘evidence’ that they could use to convince an extremist judge that embryos and fetuses deserve the same legal rights as people,” the National Women’s Law Center said in a statement.
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