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Dr. Atul Gawande delivers a speech in 2015. In January 2022, he became the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development's work in global health.

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  • Global Health

Faced with COVID and monkeypox, new USAID leader draws strength from African proverb

Dr Atul Gawande, the surgeon and bestselling health writer talks, to NPR about the problems he has inherited as the new head of USAID's global health office.

July 11, 2022
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By:
  • Ailsa Chang
Clinic escorts use party horns and whistles to counter the presence of anti-abortion activist Gabriel Olivier, right, outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2022.

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  • National

Mississippi's last abortion clinic shuts down. The owner promises to continue working

The clinic is now headed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 40 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

July 07, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Steve Bova (center) traveled from Maryland to Los Angeles with the "People's Convoy" to protest covid-19 restrictions. Despite using a phrase that originated with the abortion rights movement, he opposes abortion.

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  • Health

'My body, my choice': How vaccine foes co-opted the abortion rallying cry

Anti-vaccine advocates have repurposed a catchy, succinct, and potent slogan. Its unlikely source: the reproductive rights movement, which has been linked to the phrase for more than 50 years.

July 04, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Bluth
Steve Bova (center) traveled from Maryland to Los Angeles with the "People's Convoy" to protest covid-19 restrictions. Despite using a phrase that originated with the abortion rights movement, he opposes abortion.

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  • Health

'My body, my choice': How vaccine foes co-opted the abortion rallying cry

Anti-vaccine advocates have repurposed a catchy, succinct, and potent slogan. Its unlikely source: the reproductive rights movement, which has been linked to the phrase for more than 50 years.

July 04, 2022
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  • Rachel Bluth
A slew of companies will cover travel expenses for employees that have to travel out of their state for an abortion after the Supreme Court overturned federal protections for the procedure.

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  • Business

JP Morgan, Disney join wave of companies that'll cover employee abortion travel costs

Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch calls it a "crushing blow" and says in an internal memo to employees of Vogue, New Yorker and Vanity Fair among others to use their journalism to respond to the moment.

June 25, 2022
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  • Jacqueline GaNun and
  • Dustin Jones
A patient talks with a nurse at a traveling contraception clinic in Madagascar run by MSI Reproductive Choices, an organization that provides contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries. The group condemned the overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade</em> and warned that the ruling could stymie abortion access overseas.

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  • Global Health

Global reproductive and women's rights groups react to overturn of Roe v. Wade

Some nonprofit groups have welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision. But many global reproductive and women's rights groups condemned the ruling.

June 24, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
Activists Lori Gordon (R) and Tammie Miller (L) of Payne, Ohio, take part in the annual "March for Life" event January 22, 2002 in Washington, D.C.

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  • History

The movement against abortion rights is nearing its apex. But it began way before Roe

Despite gaining national traction in the 1970s, the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. goes back more than a century before the landmark Supreme Court decision.

May 04, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Teresa Xu holds up cards, one of which reads "My Womb, My Choice," before attending a court session at the Chaoyang People's Court in Beijing, Sept. 17, 2021. Xu is suing a public hospital for the right to freeze her eggs after it refused to do so because she isn't married.

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  • World

Not a married heterosexual woman? You might not get certain reproductive care in China

Rules around the country cut out unmarried women and LGBT people of maternity benefits, even as China's leaders try to get citizens to have more babies to reverse the declining birthrate.

February 15, 2022
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  • Emily Feng
A view of the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee. One Republican state lawmaker has introduced a restrictive abortion bill that is drawing comparisons to the ban recently enacted in Texas.

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  • Politics

A Florida Lawmaker Is Proposing A Restrictive Texas-Style Abortion Bill

The bill would ban most abortions as early as around six weeks, allow people to sue anyone who helps end a pregnancy after that point and fine physicians $10,000 for each such abortion they perform.

September 23, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
Misoprostol is used for medical abortions

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  • Health Care

Telemedicine Abortions Offer Cheaper Options But May Also Undermine Critical Clinics

Carafem, which operates clinics in Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee and Maryland, began mailing abortion pills to patients in Georgia in 2019 when it joined the TelAbortion study, an ongoing project run by the reproductive health nonprofit Gynuity that received federal permission to study the safety of telemedicine abortions. 

September 07, 2021
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  • Amy Littlefield
It's not a known side effect, but some people are experiencing changes to their menstrual cycles after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Reports have led some researchers to take a closer look at the possible connection.

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  • Health

Why Reports Of Menstrual Changes After COVID Vaccine Are Tough To Study

Some people have reported getting a lighter or heavier period after getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Cause for concern? Doctors say no. Could it be a temporary side effect? That's harder to determine.

August 10, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Annie Kunz in the women's heptathlon 100-meter hurdles during the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., in June. Building her training regimen around recent findings from sex-specific sports medicine research has made a difference in her performance, says Kunz, who is competing at the Tokyo Olympics.

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  • Health

Sports Science Is Changing How Female Olympians Train. It Could Help You, Too

U.S. Olympic heptathlete Annie Kunz says tracking her monthly cycles and learning she needs to eat more and get more naps when she's fatigued has already improved her athletic performance.

August 03, 2021
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  • Maggie Mertens

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  • Your Health

Painful Endometriosis Could Hold Clues To Tissue Regeneration, Scientist Says

MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.

May 13, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross

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