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News Articles: Series: Roe v. Wade and the future of reproductive rights in America

Workers at Google's parent company Alphabet want to better protect people's abortion-related location data and search history.

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  • Business

Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people's abortion search data

Workers are asking Google to protect user location data and search history from law enforcement agencies that might attempt to prosecute abortion seekers.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon
Student filmmakers can apply for funding for works about reproductive rights.

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  • Arts & Life

A new student filmmaking grant will focus on reproductive rights

The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative announced Wednesday that it has created the program in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

August 17, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
A package of Aviane birth control pills. The federal program known as Title X provides birth control, tests for sexually transmitted infections, and offers other reproductive health care for low-income patients.

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  • National

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Ben Paviour
Some of the evidence against Jessica Burgess, 41, was handed over to police by Facebook. Facebook's parent company, Meta, released a statement saying it had received valid warrants from law enforcement in Nebraska and that "the warrants did not mention abortion at all."

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  • National

Nebraska cops used Facebook messages to investigate an alleged illegal abortion

A case in Norfolk, Neb., highlights how evidence from online services is fair game in the post-Roe v. Wade era.

August 12, 2022
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
A room in a Planned Parenthood of Illinois clinic in Waukegan, where abortion providers from Wisconsin are helping to provide access to more patients from their home state now that abortion is nearly banned there.

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  • Health Care

Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it's nearly banned. So clinics teamed up

After Wisconsin left an 1849 near-total abortion ban in place, some providers began commuting to Illinois to treat patients. These Planned Parenthood partnerships could be a model for the future.

August 11, 2022
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By:
  • Kristen Schorsch
Dr. Nicole Scott, the residency program director at Indiana's largest teaching hospital, is worried what the near-total ban on abortion in the state means for her hospital's ability to recruit and retain the best doctors.

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  • Health

Their mentor was attacked. Now young OB-GYNs may leave Indiana

Dr. Caitlin Bernard was publicly vilified for providing abortion care to a 10-year-old rape victim. And that's got some medical residents who were open to practicing in Indiana thinking again.

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
Abortion rights activists march from Washington Square Park to Bryant Park in protest of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. The march was in New York on June 24, 2022.

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  • Health

Criminalization of pregnancy has already been happening to the poor and women of color

The symbol of the post-Roe era might not be coat hangers. It may instead be prison bars.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Sandhya Dirks
Supporters of a constitutional amendment about abortion in Kansas remove signs ahead of Tuesday's vote.

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  • Politics

Abortion rights supporters and opponents look for lessons from the Kansas vote

Kentucky has a similar measure on the ballot, and another is expected in Michigan. But even as advocates analyze the results, they warn that messaging that worked in Kansas may not work nationwide.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Protestors for and against legal abortions gathered at The University of Michigan on May 14, 2022.

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  • National

Confusion roiled Michigan for days as abortion rights changed hour to hour

In a span of 3 days this week, court rulings seesawed between outlawing abortions and permitting them. A judge allowed them to continue Wednesday for at least 21 days.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Kate Wells
Kansas state Rep. Stephanie Clayton, an abortion rights supporter who was a Republican and is now a Democrat, reacts as a referendum to strip abortion rights out of the state constitution fails.

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  • National

Voters in Kansas decide to keep abortion legal in the state, rejecting an amendment

In the first test of its kind since the Dobbs ruling, Kansas voters have decided not to amend the state constitution, keeping abortion legal in the state — for now.

August 03, 2022
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By:
  • Dylan Lysen,
  • Laura Ziegler,
  • and 1 more
Reproductive Health Services is shown in Montgomery, Ala., in 2014. At the time, it was the only abortion clinic in the state capital.

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  • Health

Dozens of clinics have stopped offering abortions in the states with some form of ban

In the month since the Supreme Court voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, 43 clinics across 11 states have halted abortion care, a research group says.

July 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana doctor who provided an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, speaks during an abortion rights rally in June at the Indiana Statehouse.

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  • Politics

Indiana doctor says she has been harassed for giving an abortion to a 10-year-old

The harassment began soon after her young patient became flashpoint in the national debate over abortion, Dr. Caitlin Bernard told NPR. "It's honestly been very hard for me, for my family," she said.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon and
  • Becky Sullivan
Elizabeth and James Weller at their home in Houston two months after losing their baby girl due to a premature rupture of membranes. Elizabeth could not receive the medical care she needed until several days later because of a Texas law that banned abortion after six weeks.

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  • Health

Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare

New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications. That's led to life-threatening delays, and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Feibel
After receiving their white doctor's coats, dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out in protest of a keynote speaker with anti-abortion beliefs.

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  • National

Michigan medical students walk out on an anti-abortion keynote speaker

A petition had circulated before Sunday's white coat ceremony asking the university to remove the speaker, a physician who directs the school's Health, Spirituality and Religion program.

July 25, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
A number of companies with staff in Texas has offered to pay for abortion-related travel.

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  • National

Corporate America reckons with its role in reproductive rights

A growing list of companies is offering to cover travel expenses for abortion care, if an employee lives in a state with restrictive laws. Yet corporate America still has its own issues to address.

July 25, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Hodges
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