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The United States Is the Epicenter of the Anti-Choice Clinic Crisis

Rachel Wells

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.

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Hysterectomies Are Not the Only Option for Black Women With Fibroids. We Have Choices.

Kimberly Fain

Black women are two to three times more likely to get fibroids than our white female counterparts. We are also more likely to experience implicit bias and be disempowered by our health-care system.

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Trump’s Pregnant Traveler Ban Is Part of a Long History of Anti-AAPI Immigrant Policy

Sung Yeon Choimorrow

The message is clear: People of color are not welcome in the United States.

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I Regretted My Abortion. It Shouldn’t Matter.

Melissa Petro

As somebody who has, for at least a moment, regretted my abortion, I can empathize with the feelings of abortion regret commonly amplified by the anti-choice movement. But what, if anything, do these feelings matter?

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Ohio Republicans Find Another Way to Erode Abortion Access (Updated)

Alys Brooks

Republican lawmakers in Ohio are going after telemedicine abortion and pushing a so-called abortion reversal bill as access to abortion care dwindles.

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Increased Police Presence in New York Subways Is a Reproductive Justice Issue

Merle McGee

When our youth are having guns pointed at them for hopping a turnstile, that is reproductive injustice.

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Warren Has a Plan to Clean House After Trump: Campaign Week in Review

Dennis Carter

Advocates have feared that a Democratic administration couldn't fully rid the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of those committed to undermining the agency's mission.

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Structural Racism in Medicine Worsens the Health of Black Women and Infants

Akilah Wise

California programs are doubling down on efforts to eliminate the medical system's structural racism and support the state's Black women and infants, who face abysmal maternal and infant health outcomes.

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A New Study Destroys the Central Argument Behind ‘Abortion Reversal’

Tiffany Diane Tso

“Abortion reversal” laws are based on the myth that people who have abortions often regret their decision. New research shows this is overwhelmingly untrue.

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Having the Abortion Talk With Children Is Easier Than You Think. Just Ask These Parents.

Paige Alexandria

Most people who have abortions already have children. For these parents, talking about their abortions with their kids was not only a normal conversation, but a productive one.

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