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The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.

When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy much riskier, leading to the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and causing a spike in infant mortality. Now, research suggests the country has also suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in […]


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The International Provider

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical catastrophes. It […]


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Funder, Pilot, Survivor, Physician: Inside the Network Assisting Abortion Journeys

Three years ago, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority enabled states to severely restrict abortion or ban it outright. Since then, 17 states have enacted such limits; infant and maternal mortality have risen in many of them. But the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade extends far beyond medical […]


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Minnesota Shooter’s List Reportedly Included Abortion Providers and Advocates

The Minnesota shooter who killed a state lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his wife reportedly had a list containing dozens of other names, including abortion providers and advocates. Multiple news outlets, including CNN, ABC, and the Minnesota Star Tribune, have reported that the alleged shooter—57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, who remains at […]


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More States Consider Curbing Drug Testing at Childbirth

A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth — including how many patients are often […]


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A Doctor’s Impassioned Defense of Later Abortions

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to […]


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Forget Dobbs—The Personhood Movement Wants Much More

To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human personhood begins at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti-abortion activists […]


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Republicans Snuck Two Devastating Health Care Measures Into Trump’s Megabill

In the early morning hours on Thursday, after an all-night session of tense negotiations, House Republicans narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. In addition to the largest cuts to Medicaid in US history, the bill contains provisions that have alarmed health care advocates since they first showed up in earlier versions of […]


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Trump Still Hasn’t Produced Plans to Make IVF More Accessible

Monday marked 90 days from February 18—the day President Donald Trump signed an executive order that falsely claimed to fulfill a campaign promise to expand access to in vitro fertilization, also known as IVF. In reality, all the executive order actually did was commission a relatively low-level Trump administration official to submit to the president […]


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Report: Abortion Providers Are Confronting a New Wave of Extremism

In November 2023, while an abortion provider in the South was on vacation, someone broke into their home, shattered the windows, and scribbled “Baby Killer” on a whiteboard. The case is still open. That same year, a man crashed his car into a new abortion clinic in Danville, Illinois, trying to start a fire. A […]


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RFK Jr. Is Coming for Abortion Pills

Earlier this month, the Trump administration scored seemingly positive headlines when it asked a federal court to dismiss a case brought by three Republican states seeking to restrict telehealth access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in a medication abortion. Several news outlets claimed in headlines that the administration would “defend” access to […]


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The GOP’s Plan to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Add $300 Million to the Deficit

The contentious plan to defund Planned Parenthood, included in the Republican-backed reconciliation bill that would slash millions in Medicaid funding, would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The news comes as House Republicans have doubled down on the proposal […]


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