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Georgia won’t say who’s now serving on its maternal mortality committee after dismissing all members last year

Georgia recently relaunched its maternal mortality review committee after dismissing all 32 of its members last year. But state officials won’t say who the current members are.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Amy Yurkanin and
  • ProPublica
An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on July 6, 2022. Abortion clinics in Louisiana have halted procedures after an appeals court ruled on Friday, July 26, 2022, that the state’s strict ban on abortion must be reinstated as an ongoing legal challenge plays out.

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  • Health Care

Data shows minimal changes to OB-GYN workforce following abortion bans, but that could change

Across the country there is evidence that abortion restrictions have made it harder on reproductive health care workers. But understanding how the workforce has changed overall could take years.

December 24, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
People gather in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022, to protest to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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  • Health

Abortions in Georgia dipped last year, evidence of a changing landscape of reproductive care

It’s the first decline the state has seen in procedures since 2017, according to final data from the Georgia Department of Public Health. 

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills.

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  • Law

Stories of pregnant women’s deaths after Georgia’s strict abortion ban reignite debate over law

Harris plans Georgia Friday visit to campaign for reproductive rights

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin and
  • Ross Williams
Abortion-rights protesters regroup and protest following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022.

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  • Health

Georgia hosts federal subcommittee on abortion access as issue remains of top concern for voters

It’s one of a series of hearings under the federal Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, chaired in part by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff.

July 25, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A small group gathers at the steps of the Georgia State Capitol protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, June 26, 2022.

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  • Health Care

New Supreme Court ruling amplifies confusion over abortion access

Georgia’s abortion law, the so-called “LIFE Act,” allows for abortions after the detection of what the law describes as “fetal heartbeat.” It’s exceptions like these that were at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest hearing on abortion.

July 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
 On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, U.S. Senate Democrats held a hearing on abortion access and House Democrats introduced legislation that would guarantee people throughout the country the right to contraception. U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, an Atlanta Democrat, speaks about the legislation during the press conference in front of the Capitol. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom

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  • Politics

U.S. Senate Dems decry limits on abortion access, House Dems unveil contraception bill

The national debate over whether laws or patients should determine abortion access dominated a U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday, when a panel of six experts testified about the complicated nature of treating pregnancies and miscarriages.

June 05, 2024
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  • Jennifer Shutt
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  • Politics

The abortion debate is headed to the ballot box. Here's where voters will decide

From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.

May 29, 2024
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  • The NPR Network
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., spoke with students as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at college campuses across Wisconsin, a state that had the highest youth turnout in the country in the 2022 midterms.

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  • Elections

Six months out from the election, Wisconsin students weigh voting for Biden

Wisconsin's young voters — who have turned out in big numbers in recent elections — are key for either candidate to win the state. But Biden is facing some skepticism on the state's college campuses.

May 05, 2024
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By:
  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han

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  • Health

How Florida and Arizona Supreme Court rulings change the abortion access map

How far do women have to travel to access abortion care? An economics professor has been tracking that data since 2009. Interactive maps show how access has changed dramatically since 2021.

April 11, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Hilary Fung
California legislators in 2019 passed the law that requires all the state's 33 public university campuses to provide abortion pills. It took effect in January 2023, but LAist found that basic information for students to obtain the medication is often nonexistent.

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  • Health

California colleges provide abortion pills but many fail to make students aware

Despite a law mandating that they offer the pills, many campus health clinics don't publicize that they have them, leaving students struggling to track them down off-campus.

April 04, 2024
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By:
  • Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and
  • Jackie Fortier
Olivia Rodrigo performs at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on June 25, 2022, in Glastonbury, England.

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  • Arts & Life

Olivia Rodrigo concertgoers got a show — and free emergency contraceptives

As part of an initiative for reproductive health care access, advocacy groups handed out emergency contraception pills and condoms to fans at the Olivia Rodrigo concert in St. Louis.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Diba Mohtasham
Pills

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  • Health Care

Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access? Here’s the list.

Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone to what was in place prior to 2016.

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Shutt
A view of the Montana State Capitol on May 3, 2023, in Helena, Montana.

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  • National

Montana judge declares 3 laws restricting abortion unconstitutional

The decision cited a 1999 Montana Supreme Court ruling that said the state Constitution's right to privacy includes a woman's right to abortion access.

February 29, 2024
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By:
  • Shaylee Ragar
A woman with a rolling piece of luggage outside an airport

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  • Health

More ‘navigators’ are helping women travel to have abortions

A growing network of workers is helping people seeking abortions understand what’s legal, where they can travel for care, and how to get there.

February 02, 2024
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  • KFF Health News
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