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Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Impacting Routine Care for Seniors and Kids

Three years after “Dobbs,” states that were already struggling with physician shortages say they’re getting worse.


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The Choice Some Pregnant Immigrants Face: Deportation or Parenthood

Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and Texas completely outlawed abortion in communities along the Rio Grande Valley, the effect was swift. In this region, which is home to 1.4 million residents, most of them Latinx or immigrants, the area’s only abortion clinic in McAllen was forced to shut down. “When we […]


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Wisconsin Supreme Court Just Killed the “Zombie” Abortion Law

When Wisconsin voters flipped the ideological balance of the state’s supreme court in 2023, abortion was very much on their minds. Specifically, abortion opponents were arguing that with the demise of Roe v Wade the year before, the state’s 1849 near-total abortion ban—invalidated by Roe but never overturned by lawmakers, so still technically on the […]


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Abortion Bans Make the Common Experience of Miscarriage Far More Dangerous

Blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriages in Texas rose by 54 percent since 2022.


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How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy

When Karen Thompson became the legal director at Pregnancy Justice a year and a half ago, she was still learning about the reproductive justice issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. But after 20 years focused on the criminal justice system, first at the Innocence Project, then at the ACLU of New Jersey, she […]


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States That Have Banned Abortion Are Now Criminalizing Midwives

In March, police arrested a midwife named Maria, marking the first targeted provider arrest under Texas’s abortion ban.


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The Supreme Court Just Weakened a Key Civil Rights Law

The headline from the Supreme Court on Thursday is that the GOP-appointed justices green lit efforts by Republican-controlled states to defund Planned Parenthood by withholding Medicaid funding. The decision imperils the health of millions, denying Medicaid patients access to their preferred provider and shoe-horning patients to a smaller number of available doctors. This is a […]


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SCOTUS Allows South Carolina to Block Planned Parenthood From Accepting Medicaid

The decision threatens health care access for hundreds of thousands and sets a dangerous precedent in other states.


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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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