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Indian Health Services Is Ill-Prepared for the Coronavirus Crisis. Indigenous People Will Suffer.

The Indian Health Service can barely keep up with broken bones and preventive care, according to Indigenous Women Rising.

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Are You Home Schooling Your Kids? Don’t Forget Sex Education.

Cassandra Corrado

Sex education is education—and if you’re braving math, science, and history to help your kid with their lessons, you should do the same for sex ed.

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How the Coronavirus Is Affecting Abortion Access in a State Hostile to Abortion Rights

Paige Alexandria

In Texas, abortion access is already threatened as a result of extreme anti-choice legislation—the barriers people face are compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Your Questions About Reproductive Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Answered

Rewire News Group Staff

"The effect [of the COVID-19 outbreak] on people accessing abortion care is considerable, especially in those states that have limited access."

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Texas Foreshadows How Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Destroy Teens’ Access to Contraception

Martha Kempner

Texas should be seen as a testing ground for what happens when anti-choice legislators gut access to reproductive health care. Teenagers, according to research, pay a hefty price.

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Louisiana’s Clinic Shutdown Law Will Hurt Black Women. We’re Fighting Back.

Marcela Howell

Given the obstacles Black women already face, new barriers to abortion—in Louisiana and across the country—will turn reproductive health care into a right we cannot exercise.

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‘You Don’t Even Treat Animals the Way I Was Treated’: Pregnant and Incarcerated

Madeleine Schmidt

As the gender makeup of people who are incarcerated changes, there has yet to be sufficient research or policy change to address incarcerated women’s health needs.

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How Georgia’s Blocked 6-Week Abortion Ban Is Already Affecting Clinics

Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza

Even though HB 481 has yet to take effect, Georgia clinics have been inundated with calls from people who worry abortion is illegal or that they'll be criminalized for obtaining one.

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John Roberts Has Waited a Long Time to Undermine LGBTQ Rights. Now He Has His Chance.

Jessica Mason Pieklo & ‘Shifting the Culture of Care’: A Q&A With Chanel Porchia-Albert, Founder of Doula Collective Ancient Song

The Supreme Court announced Monday it was taking a case that could write religious objections into the Constitution. The case could have "profound consequences" for children in foster care, an ACLU official said.

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‘Shifting the Culture of Care’: A Q&A With Chanel Porchia-Albert, Founder of Doula Collective Ancient Song

Dominique Rémy

"Black people historically didn’t have access to health care within the context of institutional care. There were midwives and healers within the communities, and that was their source of strength."

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