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Abortion
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Abortion providers are trying to open new clinics as close as possible to states with bans
Providers hope the new clinics can help serve the surge of patients now expected to travel for abortions.
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What will happen if Obergefell is overturned? Queer legal experts are scrambling
35 states have marriage bans, and experts doubt that Congress could codify marriage equality.
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Biden signs executive order on abortion access and legal backing
The order comes two weeks after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion.
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‘The government owns your body’: What abortion access now looks like for the military
The Pentagon says abortion services will continue as before for the military community. But some lawmakers demand that more is done to protect service members seeking care.
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GOP Senate candidates don’t really want to talk about abortion
Candidates in competitive Senate races mostly pivot from praising the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to focusing on Biden, inflation and crime.
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When abortion clinics close, low-income people will also lose access to other reproductive care
In many areas of the South and Midwest, abortion clinics are often the only place low-income, uninsured people can go to get reproductive care, including birth control and HIV, prenatal and gender-affirming care. Now many of those clinics are set to close.
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Pre-Roe abortion bans are cutting off access — even laws that aren’t supposed to be in effect
With Roe v. Wade overturned, it’s not clear whether unrepealed abortion restrictions can legally be enforced. But they’re blocking abortion access anyway.
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The 19th Explains: Why some trigger laws still aren’t in effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned
The 19th breaks down the differences among the trigger laws, why some are being challenged and what this means for abortion access.
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State-level abortion bans could restrict care in neighboring states, too. Here’s how.
A Montana abortion provider decided to limit what kinds of abortions it offers out-of-state patients. It could foreshadow similar moves elsewhere.
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Abuse, discrimination, exclusion: Transgender men explain domino effect of losing reproductive care post-Roe
"If you are trans and become pregnant and you need to access abortion services in the South, your options are really, really limited right now."