MAGA Republicans are back in the White House, and Project 2025 is their guide—the right-wing plan to turn back the clock on women’s rights, remove abortion access, and force women into roles as wives and mothers in the “ideal, natural family structure.” We know an empowered female electorate is essential to democracy. That’s why day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.
Since our last report…
+ The FDA withdrew a rule requiring cosmetics companies to test their products made with talc for asbestos, alarming public health advocates.
+ Two Pennsylvania hospitals told the state they may not provide emergency contraception to sexual assault survivors because of religious objections.
+ Some good news out of Wyoming: The state’s supreme court started the new year by striking down Wyoming’s two abortion bans, ruling that abortion is essential healthcare.
+ Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has tried to remove pro-abortion ads for Mayday Health, an organization that shares information about abortion pills, birth control and gender-affirming care, by sending subpoenas to gas stations in the state carrying the ads in an effort to block the gas stations from showing them.
Let’s not forget what else was sent our way in December and January…
Friday, Dec. 12, 2025: Meta Removes Dozens of Abortion Advice and Queer Advocacy Accounts
Meta removed or restricted more than 50 Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts run by reproductive justice organizations, queer groups and abortion providers, from October to December 2025.
Many of the suspended accounts were from Europe and the U.K., but the removals also affected accounts in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. One organization affected was Women Help Women, a global telehealth abortion service that Carrie Baker profiled for Ms. in December.
Repro Uncensored, an NGO tracking digital censorship across gender- and health-related movements, recorded 210 incidents of account removals and severe restrictions on various social media platforms in 2025 as opposed to only 81 in 2024.
“Within this last year, especially since the new U.S. presidency, we have seen a definite increase in accounts being taken down, not only in the U.S., but also worldwide as a ripple effect,” said Repro Uncensored’s executive director Martha Dimitratou.
Meta has since said more than half the accounts Repro Uncensored identified, including Women Help Women’s, have been reinstated.
Thursday, Dec. 18: Trump Administration Strips Veterans of Reproductive Healthcare
While the rest of America was preparing to sign off for the year, at the end of 2025, the Trump administration quietly reinstated a full exclusion on abortion and abortion counseling for veterans and their dependents. The new rule undoes a 2022 Biden-era policy, introduced just after the end of Roe v. Wade, that authorized the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to provide abortions in cases of rape, incest or threats to the pregnant woman’s health.
Trump’s new rule change drew criticism from a wide range of veterans’ rights and healthcare groups. The House and Senate Veteran Affairs Committee called the administration’s central claim that veterans don’t need abortion access as part of their essential medical healthcare “insulting and ignorant.”
Women veterans are already at higher risk for sexual assault and rape than many other groups in the country, and veterans also tend to have a higher rate of health conditions leading to more pregnancy complications.
“You can’t thank a veteran for putting her body on the line for her country, then turn around and take away her right to control it. There is nothing patriotic about denying our nation’s heroes the care they deserve and the ability to determine their own futures,” said Rep. Morgan McCarvey (D-Ky.), a member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026: ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
On Jan. 7, ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. Good was dropping her 6-year-old son off at school when multiple ICE agents demanded she exit her car before one fired multiple shots through her car window, according to a bystander video that The Washington Post analyzed.
In response, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others from the Trump administration ridiculed Good, pointing to her pronouns in her Twitter bio and calling her “disrespectful,” a “fucking bitch” and “AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal).”
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf wrote in Ms.,
“The only civilized political response should have been a call for an independent investigation, but it seems like every MAGA with a mic is hellbent on making this a cautionary tale: Women who respond to and resist the authority of a man with a gun will get exactly what they deserve. ‘Fucking bitch,’ possibly muttered by Ross as he let bullets fly (caught on air thanks to real-time video footage), is perhaps the most grotesque case in point.”
Friday, Jan. 9: San Antonio Shuts Down Abortion Travel Fund
The City of San Antonio’s abortion fund became the latest in Texas to shut down due to a new state law banning government funds for people who travel out of the state for abortions.
Last April, San Antonio’s City Council approved $100,000 for its Reproductive Justice Fund to provide resources for residents who have to travel outside of the state for abortion care, since abortion is illegal in Texas under nearly every circumstance. The next day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office sued the city, and the lawsuit was dismissed with the new law that prevents Texas funding for abortion-related travel. Paxton claimed victory, stating, “I will always do everything in my power to prevent radicals from manipulating the system.”
In the nearly four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision, abortion funds have become a lifeline for patients in states with bans who need to travel out of state for care. Texas’ law SB 33, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed in August 2025, prevents the use of money for “logistical support” for abortion and allows Texas residents to sue cities they believe have violated the law. In September, Austin shut down its own Reproductive Healthcare Logistics Fund after the city allocated $400,000 to the fund in 2024.
Tuesday, Jan. 13: Louisiana Attempts to Extradite California Abortion Provider
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has signed an extradition request for California OB-GYN Dr. Rémy Coeytaux for allegedly mailing abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana, where abortion is banned. In September, Murrill signed an arrest warrant for Coeytaux.
California has a shield law in place that protects doctors who prescribe medication to patients in other states, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied Murrill’s extradition request, saying, “We will not allow extremist politicians from other states to reach into California and try to punish doctors based on allegations that they provided reproductive health care services. Not today. Not ever.”
Coeytaux is the second doctor for whom Murrill has requested extradition. In 2025, Murrill and Texas A.G. Ken Paxton attempted to extradite New York doctor Margaret Carpenter for allegedly sending medication abortion to patients in Louisiana and Texas. Like Newsom, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul cited the state’s shield law and said there was “no way in hell” she would extradite Carpenter.
Wednesday, Jan. 14:
+ North Carolina Woman’s Death Determined to Be Result of the State’s Abortion Ban
This month, ProPublica published the story of Ciji Graham, a police officer in North Carolina who died in November 2023 when doctors wouldn’t give her timely care for her fatal heart condition because she was pregnant.
Thirty-four-year-old Graham, already mother to a 2-year-old son, lived in Greensboro, N.C. In North Carolina, abortion is banned after 12 weeks of pregnancy, although Graham was only six weeks along at the time. Even though Graham had a rapid, irregular heartbeat that put her at risk of heart failure, her cardiologist refused to perform a cardioversion—a procedure that would have shocked Graham’s heart back into rhythm—because of her pregnancy, despite medical consensus that cardioversion during pregnancy is safe.
Knowing she wouldn’t be able to receive the care she needed for her heart until she wasn’t pregnant anymore, Graham scheduled an appointment for an abortion at A Woman’s Choice, the only abortion clinic in Greensboro. However, days before she could make it to her scheduled appointment, Graham died of her heart condition, made worse by pregnancy complications.
Graham is one of at least 12 women (and probably many more unreported cases) who have died in the U.S. since 2022 after post-Roe v. Wade abortion bans meant they couldn’t access timely healthcare for pregnancy complications.
+ Senate Republicans Try to Restrict Medication Abortion Access With Unfounded Claims
Also on Jan. 14, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on medication abortion pills deceptively titled “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs.” Despite the extensive body of scientific evidence that the mifepristone pill is safe, Republican legislators used the hearing to showcase junk science and misleading narratives, including the baseless far-right claim that abortion pills are contaminating drinking water.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) criticized Congress Republicans for using the hearing to spread misinformation and advance a political agenda, saying,
“The only reason mifepristone is regulated as heavily as it already is, is because of antiabortion politics, not because of science. And now Republicans are holding this hearing to peddle debunked junk ‘studies’ by antiabortion organizations which have no credibility and have been forcefully condemned by actual medical organizations, to justify reinstating more burdensome requirements and ultimately ripping medication abortion off the shelves entirely. We all know this hearing is not about the actual science or the facts—and it’s certainly not about what is best for women’s health.”
Saturday, Jan. 24: ICE Kills Second Minneapolis Resident Alex Pretti
Barely two weeks after Renee Nicole Good’s murder, ICE agents murdered 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis while he was helping a woman protester (protesting ICE and Good’s killing) whom an ICE agent had pushed to the ground.
After Good’s murder at the start of the new year, anti-ICE organizing in Minneapolis has intensified during the month of January, with thousands gathering for protests and declaring a general strike from work. Pretti’s death marked the third shooting of a Minneapolis civilian by federal agents during January, and the second fatality. (ICE agents also shot Julio Cesar Sola-Celis, a Venezuelan immigrant, in the leg, but he has survived as of the time of this writing.)
As with Good’s killing, Trump administration officials have avoided taking accountability for Pretti’s death and criticized the protestors in Minneapolis. In response, Pretti’s family released a statement saying, “Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. … The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE agents.”