Reproductive rights

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who has been a strong advocate for protecting reproductive care in her state, is applauding a decision by pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens to offer abortion pill mifepristone to patients as prescribed by a doctor. The Food and Drug Administration approved guidelines for the drug last year, and both chains have received the certifications necessary to…

One week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos are considered children under state law, the decision is putting the future of IVF treatments at risk. While clinics in Alabama start to pause fertility treatments as a result of the decision, patients in Massachusetts said they are concerned about what could come next. “The last few days, I just…

The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos must be treated as children has prompted concern from families in Massachusetts and across the country.

An Alabama court ruling on IVF treatments has shown a new faultline in the Republican Party post Roe v. Wade, and could play into the 2024 presidential campaign, political commentator Sue O’Connell says.

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The high-profile lawsuit against a pregnancy crisis center in Worcester has taken a step forward. Clearway Clinic had asked the judge to throw the case out, but it’s been denied. Clearway is a pregnancy resource center in Worcester that’s been accused of misleading a pregnant woman who was seeking medical advice. Clearway had argued that since it’s a nonprofit,...

A veteran from Massachusetts says she was denied fertility treatment because she is married to a woman, filing a discrimination suit against the Department of Veteran Affairs.

An Air Force veteran of nearly 20 years has filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs alleging she was denied reproductive services because she is married to a woman. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in a Massachusetts federal court, alleges that plaintiff Ashley Sheffield was denied a referral to receive in vitro fertilization, or IVF,…

A year after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a look at the state of abortion rights in Massachusetts and around the country. Plus, former acting Gov. Jane Swift on what’s changed — and what hasn’t — with women in government.

After giving birth to her baby, Annika Bockius-Suwyn and her wife spent upwards of $2,000 to adopt her. It’s one of countless complicated legal hoops that LGBTQ families jump through in order to solidify their parental rights in Massachusetts and across the country. The couple started their family through Reciprocal IVF (in vitro fertilization), where one partner provides the egg,…

Same-sex parents in Massachusetts are living in fear of having their legal rights to their own children challenged due to antiquated language in the law, but there’s a big push to change that.

Pharmacies in Massachusetts are required to stock all family planning medications, the Healey administration said Wednesday in guidance clarifying state regulations. The move comes after 20 attorneys general nationwide called on pharmacies in their states to stop providing the FDA-approved abortion medication mifepristone. Walgreens said this month it won’t sell the pills by mail in those states. The guidance issued…

Vermont was one of three states on election night that enshrined access to abortions in their state constitutions.  According to unofficial results posted online from the office of Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, more than 72% of Vermonters said the state constitution should be updated to read it is key to people’s dignity that they be able to make...

After voters headed to the polls in Vermont, Rep. Peter Welch will succeed fellow Democrat Patrick Leahy in the Senate, NBC News projects, while Republican Gov. Phil Scott has been reelected. Leahy’s 48-year tenure made him the longest-serving member in the current U.S. Senate. Welch easily defeated little-known Republican challenger Gerald Malloy, a retired U.S. Army officer endorsed by...