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With an eye on 2024, some states consider new protections for election workers
The coming presidential election — and the dangerous rhetoric of voter fraud sparked by former President Donald Trump — add new urgency to efforts to protect the women-led workforce.
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How New Mexico child care workers got the state to invest in their industry
The advocacy and grassroots campaigning by the state’s predominantly Latina workforce could offer a roadmap for workers and officials in other states looking to craft and pass solutions to the child care crisis.
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Children’s mental health ranks as number one concern among parents, poll shows
Youth anxiety, depression and bullying were top concerns for parents with minor children, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
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Firefighters’ careers could be impacting their reproductive health
High temperatures, stress and the ‘forever chemicals’ firefighters are exposed to could be factors in pregnancy and fertility complications, new research shows.
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Abortion rights leaders set focus on access, medication — and the long fight ahead
The presidents of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America both say that they’re alarmed at attempts to decrease access to medication abortion and that they see young people as key to their ability to change policy in the long term.
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Kamala Harris, in Florida, takes aim at abortion restrictions as attacking ‘the very foundations of freedom’
The vice president, on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, tied the fight for legal abortion to Americans’ past fights for rights.
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The first post-Roe March for Life showed anti-abortion activists are far from done
Anti-abortion activists celebrated the end of Roe last year. Ahead of its anniversary, they’re setting their sights on federal restrictions.
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50 years since Roe. Seven months since Dobbs.
How the Supreme Court’s decision sparked legal chaos and altered abortion access in America.
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As states seek to scale back abortions, Montana wants to redefine medical necessity under Medicaid
Advocates and lawmakers have said the move is part of a broader agenda to whittle away access to the procedure, making it more difficult for low-income people to receive services.