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Abortion
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Indiana opens special session to debate near-total abortion ban
Lawmakers convene to introduce a near-total ban, just weeks after a 10-year-old had traveled to Indiana to receive an abortion unavailable in her home state.
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Advocates call for better messaging for minority groups as White House rolls out post-Roe response
Lawmakers and organizations are asking officials to keep in mind some of the country’s most vulnerable communities: immigrants and people of color.
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A slew of abortion clinics are opening in New Mexico. Crisis pregnancy centers are, too.
The influx of these centers, which have been criticized by physicians and other medical experts, is part of an effort to prevent out-of-state travelers from accessing abortions.
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For fertility doctors, a moral question: Will they help protect IVF from abortion bans?
Reproductive endocrinologists are joining the abortion rights movement to protect IVF and fertility care. But would they help write laws to ban abortions if it meant saving IVF?
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'We feel kind of powerless': The end of Roe is overwhelming clinics in states that protect abortion
Clinics in a handful of states are now central access points for abortion. But they’re short on staff, facing unprecedented patient demand, and navigating legal quagmires none had anticipated.
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Abortion is directly on the ballot in at least five states this year
Michigan is expected to join that list after abortion rights activists submitted signatures to enshrine access in the state constitution.
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Indiana doctor performed abortion for a 10-year-old girl, document shows
The veracity of a story of a 10-year-old girl who was raped and got an abortion has been debated in the media, though a document confirms details of the story.
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IVF patients started moving their embryos out of states with abortion bans when Roe fell
Fertility patients are beginning to move their frozen embryos to states that protect abortion, worried that abortion laws could strip them of their choices.
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Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more.
Proposals to restrict sex ed coincide with abortion restrictions at the national and state levels and a movement to stop educators from discussing gender and sexual orientation.
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Prosecutor explains what preparing for a future of post-Roe abortion cases might look like
Jean Peters Baker is part of a project that aims to educate other prosecutors across the country over how to navigate this new legal arena.