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State & Local Issues

Decriminalizing Medicine: Ending Punitive Practices in Health Care

In this article, PRH fellow Dr. Meera and PRH community members Megan and MaryBeth examine how punitive health care practices deepen harm and argue that abolitionist, harm-reduction care creates a future grounded in dignity and liberation.

November, 2025
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Restoring the Promise of Maryland’s Safe Haven Law

This amicus brief filed by PRH and Doing Right By Birth (DRBB) urges the Maryland Supreme Court to review lower court decisions that punish postpartum parents who safely surrender their newborns under the state’s Safe Haven Law. We argue these ruling...

October, 2025
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Courts Won’t Save Us: Catch Up on SCOTUS Before the New Term

It’s been a hot, hostile summer, and the Supreme Court only turned up the heat by attacking our rights and freedoms. As a new term begins, we know one thing for sure: the courts won’t save us, but our communities will.

October, 2025
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There’s something in the water… But it’s not Mife

Anti-abortion extremists are spreading misinformation that mifepristone contaminates drinking water, despite decades of research proving its safety. These false claims are being weaponized in state and federal policy to restrict access, criminalize p...

September, 2025
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Trump Admin Releases Tylenol Misinformation

The Trump Administration announced disinformation about Tylenol use in pregnancy. Dr. Mariana Montes, both a former pediatrician and now obstetric anesthesiologist in Illinois and Fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health responds.

September, 2025
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Public Comment: Oppose VA Proposed Ban on Abortion Care

PRH submitted a public comment opposing the VA’s proposed ban on abortion care and counseling. This resource outlines the risks to veterans’ health and urges the VA to withdraw the rule.

September, 2025
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These 3 OB-GYNs Won’t Leave Texas—Even as Abortion Bans Threaten Their Work

PRH Fellow Victoria Petruzzi – “We can’t all just move to very blue states. We have our community ties here, and these communities still deserve strong OB-GYNs.”

August, 2025
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Rebuilding Reproductive Health Care: Physician Stories from the Post-Dobbs Era

We explore the grief, frustration, uncertainty, and hope of those on the frontlines of abortion care – featuring the perspectives of Dr. Elizabeth Sulger in New York, Dr. Kendra Harris in Massachusetts, and Dr. Janelle Lee in Arizona.

June, 2025
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Explainer: It’s Time to End Test and Report Practices

This resource explains how non-consensual drug testing of pregnant people and newborns, known as “test and report,” harms families, fuels racial inequities, and undermines trust in health care.

May, 2025
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Policy Memo: Support the Maternal Health, Dignity, & Consent Act (NY)

This memo outlines why New York must pass the Maternal Health, Dignity, & Consent Act to stop harmful, non-consensual drug testing of pregnant people and newborns.

May, 2025
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