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Gavel Drop: Does a Cross Belong in a City Park? 11th Circuit Panel Will Weigh In

Yet another legal skirmish about religious imposition, brought to you by the conservative Becket Fund.

Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Target Planned Parenthood—Along With Low-Income Women’s Access to Health Care (Updated)

Ally Boguhn

Title X provides family planning services to nearly 4 million patients with low incomes in the United States, many of whom are people of color who face systemic barriers to health-care access.

[Photo: Anti-Choice activists with signs that say

Legislative Lowlights: Ohio GOP Seeks an ‘Abortion-Free Society’

Brie Shea

And Republican lawmakers in Kansas would cancel their whole telemedicine law if they can't keep a ban on abortion in it. Priorities!

[Photo: Robert Lewis Dear sits with his attorneys in court]

Robert Dear Repeated the Pattern of Past Anti-Choice Killers. So Why Hasn’t He Gone to Trial? (Updated)

Sofia Resnick

Ahead of Robert Lewis Dear Jr.'s mental competency trial May 21, Rewire.News is seeking clarity about what sets Dear apart from the killers he says inspired him.

[Photo: A doctor provides a patient with a pamphlet]

A Patient’s Reasons for Seeking Abortion Should Not Determine Their Access to Care

Dr. Erica Hinz

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been celebrating "National Women's Health Week" since May 13. This, despite the fact that women's health, and reproductive health in general, is increasingly under siege.

[Photo: biologist working with blood test tubes at the laboratory ]

The Curious Case of the Coroner, the Telltale Sewer, and DNA Testing of Fetal Remains

Farah Diaz-Tello

New technology, coroners like the Georgia one who is trying to ID fetal remains found in the sewer, and like-minded prosecutors mean that people's plumbing might one day tell whether they had a miscarriage—and open them up to law-enforcement scrutiny.

Where Anti-Choice Lawmakers Are Elected, ‘Abortion Deserts’ Persist

Teddy Wilson

There are 27 "abortion deserts" in the United States—major cities where pregnant people have to travel more than 100 miles to access an abortion.

[Photo: A woman speaks to a doctor in the hospital]

Advocates Sue to Block Iowa’s Total Abortion Ban (Updated)

Jessica Mason Pieklo

Attorneys filed a lawsuit in state court arguing an Iowa bill that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected violates the state constitution.

Alejandra Pablos, Asylum Seeker and Reproductive Justice Advocate, Speaks Out

Tina Vasquez

"We need to make sure that vulnerable people aren’t even near the police and if the police want to arrest or detain a vulnerable person, the whole crowd needs to go," Alejandra Pablos told Rewire.News during a recent interview. "They can’t arrest all of us."

[Photo: Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) listens to testimony during a hearing]

212 Members of Congress Just Told Trump: Don’t Mess With Family Planning Funding

Ally Boguhn

Congressional lawmakers wrote in their letters that conservatives have been transparent about their endgame in plowing ahead with restrictions on Title X funds: to end funding to Planned Parenthood.

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