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Shefali Luthra
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The 19th Explains: Could an emergency medicine law give pregnant people access to life-saving abortions?
Hospitals in Texas and Idaho aren’t required to provide abortion in those instances. But the question is hardly settled.
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Abortion is on the ballot in 10 states this year
Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York and South Dakota are weighing in on abortion.
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Supreme Court to hear case on access to mifepristone abortion pill
The court, which last year overturned Roe v. Wade in a 6-3 decision, could rule on the next major dispute over abortion rights sometime next year.
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New Hampshire’s proposed 15-day abortion ban would effectively outlaw the procedure
The bill, which is unlikely to become law, indicates either a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of how pregnancy works.
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As Americans get pregnant later in life, can health care keep up?
A growing share of people are getting pregnant in their late 20s, 30s and even 40s. But it’s unclear whether the United States is prepared — medically or socially — to care for older first-time parents.
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Pregnancy loss in America has long been a lonely experience. Abortion bans have made it perilous.
In post-Roe America, the medical and legal stakes associated with losing a pregnancy are high, especially in the 14 states where abortion is now almost entirely outlawed.
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15-week abortion bans are the center of Republican debate. Experts say that cutoff is arbitrary.
Anti-abortion politicians have recently linked 15-weeks to fetal pain. That benchmark has been moving for years — and it's still not accurate.
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How abortion bans are undercutting efforts to prevent domestic violence
OB-GYNs are often the first or only doctors to learn if a patient is facing intimate partner violence. As they leave places with abortion bans, domestic violence victims are feeling the impacts.
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Virginia Republicans embraced a 15-week abortion ban — and then lost
Tuesday’s election results in Virginia are a rebuke to what anti-abortion advocates and Republican politicians hoped was a limit that a broad swath of voters could get behind.
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Florida’s proposed six-week abortion ban could cut access in half
Enforcing a more restrictive abortion law in the state that has emerged as a regional hub in the South is expected to result in “a very chaotic situation,” researchers say.