Vermont law does not recognize unborn babies as persons, so crimes against them cannot be charged separately from assaults on the pregnant woman. Legislation to create a "Crimes Against an Unborn Child" law was introduced in the 2025-2026 session but was not considered, with plans to reintroduce it in 2027.
Read →Several red states are challenging laws that protect mail-order abortion providers from legal repercussions. No connection to Vermont is mentioned.
Read →Read Full Article →Write an essay ~ submit by November 16 ~ you can win a prize! Essay Topic for Grades 6-8: “The Value of a Single Human Life” Think of a person in your life you have come to appreciate and then write an essay about why you are glad this person was born. Please include your […]
Read →Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, serving Vermont among other states, expanded services such as menopause care, vasectomy, and colposcopy to offset federal Medicaid funding cuts that impacted their clinics. Vermont officials provided an additional $600,000 to support the affiliate during the funding gap, enabling increased access to these higher-reimbursement services and improved patient care across the state.
Read →Every year, CNBC releases a list of states with the best “quality of life” to help Americans decide where to start families, businesses, and lives. And every year, they pick states that attempt to end lives the most. This year’s list is led by a state that has topped the list for the past five years: Vermont. Why Vermont? “No state is more protective of ... Read More The post CNBC Says Best Places to Live is Where They End Lives the Most with Abortion appeared first on Students for Life of America .
Read →Middlebury economist Caitlin Myers links the 22% decline in U.S. birth rates since 2007 to smartphone use, citing reduced in-person interactions and sexual frequency. Myers, a Vermont professor, highlights that the Dobbs decision has increased births among disadvantaged groups nationally, while Vermont has paradoxically expanded abortion access through telehealth and medication by mail.
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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England distributed coloring pages promoting abortion and IUD use to children at Vermont's Changemaker’s Summit on April 11, 2026, an event involving non-profits that influence state legislation and education policy. The summit featured collaboration with Outright Vermont and included State Treasurer Mike Pieciak as a keynote speaker, highlighting Planned Parenthood's role in shaping Vermont's legislative and educational landscape.
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The Vermont Senate reversed a previous vote and struck down an amendment to H.657 that would have added an advisor from the Middlebury Women’s Center to a working group examining the Department for Children and Families' pregnancy monitoring practices. The amendment was initially approved with little opposition but was later rejected along party lines after concerns were raised about the Center's role and expertise in pregnancy care.
Read →Vermont’s 2024 abortion statistics were published online as part of the state’s full vital statistics report in April 2026. The report is available on the Vermont Department of Health website and shows that Vermont abortions decreased in 2024. The data published by the state does not include the total number of abortions obtained by Vermont […] The post Abortion Reporting: Vermont (2024) appeared first on Lozier Institute .
Read →Assisted suicide is not discussed much at the federal level. But at a recent Senate committee hearing, Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) asked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his thoughts on assisted suicide. Kennedy was unequivocal (starting at minute 3:30): Lankford: I want to switch to an issue we have not had a lot of time to talk about and that is assisted suicide. We now have three states, California, Colorado, and Vermont that disability groups are filing against some of the assisted suicide laws because it seems to target those with disabilities and the Americans with Disabi
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