Rachel Wells is a writer based in Nashville, Tennessee. She covers women’s rights, health and wellness, and arts and culture, among other topics. Her work has been published by InStyle, Hello Giggles, the Daily Mail, the Tennessean, and MindBodyGreen, among others. She is working on a memoir about the lifelong emotional and psychological impacts of sexual abuse. Follow Rachel on Instagram and Twitter.
With Heartbeat International’s uncovered manipulations, the organization is paving the way for the marketing of deceit, threatening access to abortion care around the world.
A Florida Republican backing forced parental consent legislation has referenced the white supremacist "replacement theory" in advocating for restrictive abortion laws.
The state's forced parental consent bill has been referred to as a “stalking horse” meant to overhaul Florida’s constitutional right to privacy, which protects access to abortion.
Florida Republicans are going after abortion rights as clinics in north Florida have seen an influx of pregnant people coming from nearby states where lawmakers have made abortion care inaccessible.
While research shows people are certain of their decision to have an abortion, 27 states require abortion care patients to wait before obtaining one.
Anti-choice lawmakers are considering a bill to redefine fetal viability and end legal abortion in Tennessee.
An August hearing could reveal what's next in the Tennessee GOP's attempt to pass a six-week abortion ban that stalled this year in the state senate.
Using zoning rules to hinder access to abortion services has picked up momentum as an anti-choice strategy on the local level. Reproductive rights advocates have a plan to fight back.
Anti-choice commissioners in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, have vowed to use zoning alterations to stop a new clinic from offering surgical abortions.
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