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Indiana anti-abortion lobby targets IUDs in new bill

A seemingly mundane bill to expand access to birth control has become the latest battleground for anti-abortion advocates who have previously lobbied for lawmakers to conflate some forms of contraception with abortion.

As originally written, House Bill 1426 by Rep. Rita Fleming, D-Jeffersonville, would have required hospitals to offer long-acting reversible contraceptives — IUDs and arm implants — to Medicaid-covered women after they give birth. The legislation is meant to help women in vulnerable situations and potentially save the state billions of Medicaid dollars spent on unintended pregnancies.

But now the bill is drawing criticism from some Democrats and medical professionals after an anti-abortion group successfully lobbied legislators to exclude IUDs from the bill — falsely claiming the birth control devices cause abortions. IUDs would still be covered by Medicaid, but hospitals would not be required to offer them.

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Here is a full listing of likely bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community released on the first day of legislative prefiling in Missouri:

Potential Anti-LGBTQ+ bills:

HB1519 - This bill would make it so that hospital systems “could not discriminate” against doctors that refuse to provide or assist in gender affirming care, including office workers and pharmacists.

HB1520 - This bill would remove the exception allowing those youth who have already started gender affirming care care to continue getting care.

HB1574 - This bill would defund libraries that don’t ban books or that host drag queen story hours (referred to as “inappropriate events”).

HB1405 - This bill would force teachers to misgender their trans students unless they have parental permission.

HB1426 - This bill would ban online “material harmful to minors” without an age verification process.

HB1543 - A bill that would charge school employees with a crime for providing books that are judged to be “explicitly sexual,” potentially affecting LGBTQ+ books.

HB1674 - This bill has no text yet, but entitled the “employee restroom and locker room access act” and the Republican sponsor of the bill recently tweeted about trans bathroom and locker room access.

SB726 - This bill is titled “Relating to gender transition,” proposed by Republican Senator Hoskins.

SB728 - This bill would force the outing of trans students to their parents

SB770 - This bill would ban trans participation in sports and critical race theory in schools, among other things.

SB776 - This bill removes the expiration date on the gender affirming care ban and likely also removes the grandfather clause that allowed people who already started getting care to continue to obtain that care.

SB868 - This bill is titled “prohibiting discussion of certain topics by school personnel,” likely will include LGBQT+ topics.

SB949 - This bill has no text, but its title suggests it is likely a public drag ban given other drag bans sharing similar titles.

SB950 - This bill is an obscenity law likely targeting LGBTQ+ books.

SB951 - This bill is titled “Relating to sexual offenses,” and the author is notorious for anti-LGBTQ+ bills. It will likely will be a bill targeting LGBTQ+ topics, likely public drag.

SB961 - This is a “Material harmful to minors” law that will likely target LGBTQ+ materials.

SB1024 - This is a “Don’t Say Gay Or Trans” bill.

SB1061 - This is a company boycott ban for companies boycotting a state due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

SB1084 - This is an obscenity bill that applies to online websites. It could target LGBTQ+ content.

SB1185 - This bill removes the expiration date on the gender affirming care ban and likely also removes the grandfather clause that allowed people who already started getting care to continue to obtain that care.

SB1187 - This bill has no text, likely is drag ban, and is titled “Relating to sexually oriented businesses”

Potential LGBTQ+ protective bills:

SB787 - Prohibits discrimination based on someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

SB1289- No text, but titled “relating to conversion therapy for minors” and likely a conversion therapy ban.