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The Supreme Court Sided With Fake Clinics in California. The Fallout Could Spread Nationwide.

Nicole Knight

An attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom said the group would go after fake clinic regulations passed by Democrats in Illinois and Hawaii.

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Federal Judge Blocks GOP’s Medication Abortion Ban in Arkansas

Teddy Wilson

U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker ruled that the Republican-backed law “does little if anything to advance” the state’s interests in protecting a person's health and safety.

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Abortion Funds Will Continue Showing Up for Abortion Access, and So Should You

Lindsay Rodriguez

It won’t be easy. But this is the moment we were made for.

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An Open Letter to All White Women Seeking Redemption

Marcela Howell, Jessica González-Rojas & Sung Yeon Choimorrow

Facing the atrocity of our government’s attack on brown children at the border, will you continue to support Trump and his racist policies, or will you take this opportunity to redeem yourselves?

[Photo: Protesters hold signs as they march by the White House to support women's health programs and protest President Donald Trump's global gag rule.]

The Effects of the Global Gag Rule Are Being Felt Everywhere

Melvine Ouyo & Alexa Henderson

In Kenya, desperate pregnant women and girls who lack access to safe medical care because of funding cuts under Trump’s global gag rule are turning to "curtain clinics” to terminate their pregnancies. Such clinics are run by people who aren’t nurses or doctors.

Catholic Hospitals Offer a Preview of Life Without ‘Roe.’ And Bishops Just Tightened the Rules.

Amy Littlefield

Reproductive health advocates worry changes approved this month will inspire a crackdown by Catholic bishops charged with interpreting rules on abortion, sterilization, and contraception.

[photo: the Iowa judicial branch building in Des Moines.]

Iowa Supreme Court Blocks GOP’s Forced 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period

Jessica Mason Pieklo

The decision holds that the anti-choice GOP law violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the state's constitution.

[Picture: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy]

Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Could Leave Abortion Rights Up to State Lawmakers

Lauren Holter & Why I Believe President Donald Trump Will Choose a Woman to Kill ‘Roe v. Wade’ (Updated)

Just eight states have laws that explicitly protect the right to legal abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and states such as New York have stalled on similar laws.

[photo: protesters hold defund planned parenthood protest signs in Colorado Springs.]

Anti-Choice Democrats’ Conference Sponsored by Group Waging Smear Campaign Against Planned Parenthood

Teddy Wilson

Live Action, which has allied with congressional Republicans to block federal funding to reproductive health-care organizations is a sponsor of the anti-choice conference in Denver next month.

[Photo: Joan Larsen speaks at Justice Antonin Scalia's memorial service.]

Why I Believe President Donald Trump Will Choose a Woman to Kill ‘Roe v. Wade’ (Updated)

Jessica Mason Pieklo & Why I Believe President Donald Trump Will Choose a Woman to Kill ‘Roe v. Wade’ (Updated)

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh has emerged as an early frontrunner to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. But I have a different theory.

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