reproductive health

95 posts

Despite being legal in most states, self-managed abortion is being criminalized

Reproductive rights advocates are reminding people that “the law still matters,” regardless of recent attempts to criminalize self-managed abortions

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

So-called ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ are surveilling clients and may help criminalize them, reproductive advocates say

Advocates say that post-Roe, anti-abortion centers form a key part of the abortion surveillance state

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5 Min
By: Xenia Ellenbogen

Abortion funds have been inundated with donations and volunteer requests, but some are still struggling to survive

At least eight Texas abortion funds have been forced to pause operations, causing a ripple effect for out-of-state groups now struggling to support a rising tide of patients

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15 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Undocumented people struggle to access reproductive care due to militarization of Arizona borderlands

Communities living in border states like Arizona are very familiar with the anxiety triggered by state violence

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6 Min
By: María Inés Taracena

Abortion pill reversal is a myth driven by the anti-abortion agenda

Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, one of the lies that continues to spread is disinformation about abortion reversals

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5 Min
By: Xenia Ellenbogen

How Medicaid expansion could help relieve Georgia’s reproductive health care crisis

Georgia and 11 other states have barred the expansion of the public health insurance program for low-income people since its inclusion in the ACA

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5 Min
By: Neesha Powell-Ingabire

How PCOS patients are affected by the fall of Roe

PCOS patients face more barriers within a medical institution that already does not provide adequate reproductive care

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6 Min
By: Sherronda J. Brown

Pregnancy, parenthood, and prison: the right to choose where autonomy is elusive

Pregnant incarcerated people have been navigating abortion restrictions long before Roe’s reversal

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13 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Abortion clinics in conservative states are moving out of state to provide care

As soon as the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case last year, abortion clinics in conservative states knew moving would be unpreventable. Since then, the nightmares of clinic owners and abortion providers have come true, as abortion bans have been implemented

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Privacy concerns go beyond period tracking apps in a ‘reproductive police state’

Police don’t surveil period tracking apps, but that data could potentially be used against a person if they were reported to law enforcement

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

The same companies offering abortion travel benefits are donating to anti-abortion politicians

As corporations tout new policies to support people seeking abortion care, advocates cite privacy concerns and ask whether companies can truly be trusted

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

With their workplaces subject to criminalization, abortion providers face post-Roe America

Five abortion providers on how their jobs are already changing, from increased security risks to strained capacity

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6 Min
By: Sydney Pereira

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