Susan Dunlap

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that it will hear oral arguments in a case over whether Tennessee and Kentucky anti-transgender laws violate the Constitution. Tennessee enacted a law in 2023 that bans gender-affirming healthcare for youth under 18. Three teenagers who have begun gender-affirming healthcare in Tennessee, along with their parents and a

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a Planned Parenthood space for LGBTQ youth in Albuquerque that if President Joe Biden wins a second term, he will continue the work he’s already doing to protect access to reproductive healthcare. Becerra visited Albuquerque as part of a multi-state tour in the southwest and

The U.S. House Rules Committee voted 8 to 3 along party lines in favor of a joint resolution that would reverse the Biden Administration’s recent expansion of protections for LGBTQ students, pregnant students and survivors of sexual assault in higher education. House Joint Resolution 165 is a piece of legislation that would roll back the protections

Data indicates Vice President Kamala Harris could excite the Democratic base around the issue of abortion in a way that President Joe Biden struggled to get the message across. Harris, the presumptive nominee for the Democratic ticket for president, has been the voice for reproductive rights under the Biden administration. KFF, a health policy research

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called the new full-spectrum reproductive health clinic in Las Cruces the beginning of a new reproductive healthcare infrastructure in the state during a celebration to mark the groundbreaking of the new clinic on Thursday. Lujan Grisham allocated $10 million in the capital outlay bill in the 2023 legislature to build a

If Project 2025 becomes federal policy next year, it would upend abortion rights and reproductive healthcare through a reshaping of and consolidation of power in the executive branch of federal government. Project 2025, the conservative policy mandate written by former members of the Donald Trump administration and members of the Heritage Foundation, calls for the

The U.S. Census Bureau released data last week that shows that when New Mexico’s anti-poverty programs are taken into account under the supplemental poverty measure, the child poverty rate improves so that the state ranks 17th in the nation for child poverty instead of last. The official poverty measure, which ranks New Mexico as last,

Project 2025 would, if implemented, reverse decades of advances in LGBTQ rights and jeopardize access to gender-affirming healthcare. The conservative policy agenda, Project 2025, lays out an agenda for the executive branch, should former President Donald Trump retake the White House in November. Put together by the Heritage Foundation, the document provides a plan to

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, introduced legislation in the Senate on Monday that would provide tax credits to incentivize new investments and additional resources for single-family home construction and renovations. The cost of housing and the shrinking stock of affordable homes has led to a national discussion about housing. Some have said that the

A new, dedicated statewide sexual assault helpline officially went live on Monday. The New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs launched the helpline to provide a place for individuals who have experienced sexual assault to talk. According to the coalition, 76.1 percent of individuals living in New Mexico affected by sexual assault are not receiving