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How exposure to toxic chemicals in everyday products can impact reproductive health
The 19th spoke with environmental scientist Tracey Woodruff to better understand the link between chemicals like PFAS and BPA on fertility, maternal and fetal health.
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Judge preemptively blocks LGBTQ+ protections in Title IX and the workplace
20 states argue that the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX prevents them from enacting or enforcing laws that target transgender people.
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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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‘There are a lot of people who don’t want to know the truth’: Why an Arizona election official is leaving her job
Leslie Hoffman is a Republican who helps run elections in an Arizona county. She has seen momentum grow for lies about 2020.
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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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Vice President Kamala Harris talks abortion, voting rights in midterm-focused Florida trip
The vice president's remarks were part of a daylong trip to Florida, where she brought the Democrats’ case for the 2022 midterms to state lawmakers and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters.
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Latina veterans saw themselves in Vanessa Guillén. A new documentary tells their stories.
In an exclusive interview with The 19th, Andrea Patiño Contreras, the film’s director, spoke about making the film, the resilience of survivors of military sexual violence.
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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.