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Gavel Drop: Philly and Catholic Agency Spar Over Same-Sex Adoption

Brie Shea

The city is challenging a Catholic group's claim they can discriminate against same-sex couples in adoption, and the U.S. Supreme Court says that age discrimination won't fly in government workplaces.

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Self-managed Abortion Highlights Need to Decriminalize Abortion Worldwide

Patty Skuster, Kinga Jelinska & Susan Yanow

Most of the world's decades-old abortion laws don't reflect the advent of the abortion pill.

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Trump Administration Moves to Restrict Birth Control Benefit and Abortion in Post-Midterm Attack

Katelyn Burns

The release of the finalized birth control benefit rules had been anticipated by advocates since news broke last month that finalized versions had been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Republican Voters Just Handed the U.S. Senate More Control Over the Future of ‘Roe’

David S. Cohen

A judicial storm is brewing.

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In Alabama, Fertilized Eggs Are Now People

Imani Gandy

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, Alabama is poised to criminalize abortion across the board—including in cases of rape, incest, or when the health of the pregnant person is at risk.

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Republicans Lost Their State-Level Death Grip Last Night

Dennis Carter, Auditi Guha & Jason Salzman

Democrats on Tuesday seized government trifectas in six states, while breaking Republican supermajorities in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan.

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Gavel Drop: Before Election Day, a Flurry of Action on Voting Lawsuits

Brie Shea

Some Native American voters in North Dakota are likely to be disenfranchised at the ballot box tomorrow.

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Oregon’s Anti-Choice Ballot Measure Is Dangerous and Discriminatory

Kim Clark

Oregon's Measure 106 is on the wrong side of history, and must not be allowed to pass. Not in Oregon. Not now. Not ever.

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Midterms 2018: Abortion on the Ballot in These States

Lauren Holter & Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

Voters in Alabama, Oregon, and West Virginia will weigh in on abortion-related ballot measures this year.

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Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Forced commitment to a mental health hospital, rape, denial of abortion, a coat-hanger abortion, a pastor who holds a woman hostage and lets her bleed to death as punishment for an abortion: The FX show has it all.

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