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Life After Roe

In June 2022, the Supreme Court officially dismantled Roe v. Wade. These are the stories of what came next.

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What Can Biden Actually Do About Abortion Rights Before Leaving Office?

 He can throw up a few hurdles to slow down the next Trump administration’s plans to further restrict access. By Andrea González-Ramírez

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    Where Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot This ElectionVoters in ten states have the chance to amend their constitutions.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Trump Calls Himself the ‘Father of IVF’Despite needing a female senator to tell him how fertility treatments work.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  3. Abortion Pill Expected To Be Available in Australia Within Year
    Texas Women Beat Abortion-Pill Lawsuit From Friend’s Ex“This case was about using the legal system to harass us for helping our friend, and scare others out of doing the same.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  4. Storm Helene Causes Massive Flooding Across Swath Of Western North Carolina
    Hurricane Helene’s Devastating Impact on Abortion Seekers“You can’t go to a health-care appointment when your house has been washed away.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  5. Protesters Gather In Atlanta Rallying Against Georgia's New Abortion Law
    Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion BanThe law that killed Amber Thurman and Candi Miller will remain in effect as a legal challenge plays out.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  6. First Lady Melania Trump Meets With Teens To Discuss Youth Vaping
    Melania Trump Suddenly Wants to Talk About Abortion RightsReading between the lines of a reported excerpt from her new memoir.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  7. GOP Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Holds Town Hall in Warren, MI
    Trump’s National Abortion Ban DeceptionHe’s obfuscating his position on the issue, and the media is falling for it.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  8. What Could Kamala Harris Actually Do About Abortion As President?There’d be limits on her power to restore reproductive freedom.
    By Laura Bassett
  9. Planned Parenthood Rally To End 6-Week Abortion Ban Held In Orlando
    Abortion Wins Elections? I’m Not Sure After Visiting Florida.What I saw spending a weekend following “Yes on 4” canvassers in a bellwether county.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  10. Protests Break Out Across The U.S. As Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
    Yes, Abortion Bans Are Literally Killing WomenRepublicans continue to deny that restrictive laws harm patients. But a 28-year-old died as a direct result of Georgia’s ban, according to ProPublica.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Abortion Will Be Legal in North Dakota Once AgainA judge struck down the state’s trigger law, saying its constitution protects abortion care before fetal viability.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    An Abortion Provider Debunks Trump’s Debate Talking PointsHis inflammatory rhetoric hinges on voters’ unfamiliarity with abortion care later in pregnancy.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  13. The Fight for One of the Year’s Biggest Abortion-Rights Votes A measure that would lift Missouri’s ban will appear on the ballot despite the GOP’s efforts.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  14. The Power of Women’s Abortion and IVF Stories at the DNCThe convention’s unapologetic focus on the issue would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  15. She Lost a Fallopian Tube After a Hospital Denied Her AbortionKyleigh Thurman’s ectopic pregnancy ruptured after a Texas hospital allegedly refused to treat her.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  16. Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Speaks To The Press In Palm Beach, Florida
    Does Trump Even Know What Mifepristone Is?He suggested he’s open to restricting abortion pills in a rambling press conference.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  17. Another Republican Tries to Convince Voters He’s an Abortion ModerateNorth Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial candidate is the latest to try to trick voters into thinking he wouldn’t support a total abortion ban.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Kamala Harris Isn’t Afraid to Campaign on AbortionShe came out swinging on the issue in her first week as a presidential candidate and re-energized reproductive-rights groups.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  19. Here’s a Refreshing Way to Think About Election DayReproductive-justice pioneer Loretta Ross on not waiting for politicians to save you.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  20. Supreme Court Abortion Protest
    The Supreme Court’s Idaho Abortion Ruling Is a Mixed BagThe decision allows emergency abortions to continue in the state but did not rule on the case’s merits, so the legal battle isn’t over.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  21. Texans Rally At State Capitol Against New Abortion Bill
    Texas Is Forcing Women to Give Birth to Babies That Won’t SurviveA spike in newborn and infant deaths after the state enacted SB8 was largely driven by congenital anomalies.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  22. 78 Patients and 10 Hours Inside an Abortion Clinic in the South“There’s a zombie-apocalypse mind-set in this building: We are going to survive.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  23. Appeals Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available, But With Restrictions
    Good News: The Supreme Court Won’t Restrict Abortion PillsThe justices unanimously rejected anti-abortion doctors’ challenge to the drug mifepristone.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  24. Center For Reproductive Rights Files Lawsuit On Behalf Of Texans Harmed By State's Abortion Ban
    Texas Court Rules Against Women Denied Emergency AbortionsThe decision didn’t even mention the 20 women who say they nearly died, fled the state, or carried nonviable pregnancies to term.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  25. Inside a women's centre in Phoenix as Arizona considers enforcing 1864 abortion law, USA - 12 Apr 2024
    Louisiana’s Alarming Push to Criminalize Abortion PillsLegislators passed a bill that would create a climate of fear around possessing abortion pills and delay life-saving pregnancy care.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  26. A Texas Man Wants His Ex Investigated for Getting an AbortionExperts say it’s a fear tactic meant to intimidate abortion seekers.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  27. Midsection of female patient waiting in hospital exam room
    Trump Would Let Republicans Track Your PregnancyThe former president told ‘Time’ he’s fine with states monitoring women’s bodies in whatever dystopian way they see fit if he’s elected this fall.
    By Laura Bassett
  28. Arizona's Supreme Court Revives 1864 Law Banning Abortions, Causing Backlash
    Arizona Has Repealed Its Civil War–Era Abortion BanBut the restrictions are still expected to take effect for a few months this summer.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  29. The Woman Who Got Your Best Friend PregnantTaking Charge of Your Fertility brought cycle-tracking to the masses. Thirty years later, the author still worries about readers getting it right.
    By Sara Harrison
  30. How Close to Death Must a Person Be to Get an Abortion?The Supreme Court will decide whether hospitals can turn away pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  31. Arizona’s Draconian Abortion Ban Belongs to TrumpThis is what leaving the issue up to the states looks like.
    By Laura Bassett
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    Arizona Supreme Court Brings Back 160-Year-Old Abortion BanAbortions will be outlawed except in cases where the pregnant person’s life is at risk.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Florida Clinics and Funds Prepare for ‘Catastrophic’ Abortion BanIt can cost an abortion fund around $1,100 to send a patient out of state. “That’s millions of dollars. We don’t have millions of dollars.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Florida Supreme Court Paves the Way for Six-Week Abortion BanThe court also ruled separately that a measure codifying abortion rights can appear on the ballot in the November election.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Woman Charged With Murder After Abortion Sues Prosecutor The murder charges “irrevocably changed the course of Lizelle Gonzalez’s life,” her attorney says.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    What the Supreme Court Said About Abortion-Pill AccessMost justices seemed skeptical of restricting the drug, while Alito and Thomas floated a 19th-century law that could ban abortion nationwide.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  37. New RU-486 Pill Now Available
    How Self-Managed Abortions Changed After the Overturn of RoeA new report gives us the most detailed picture yet of how many abortions are taking place outside the formal health-care system.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  38. Eva Burch
    Why an Arizona Senator Spoke About Her Planned Abortion“I underwent a forced transvaginal ultrasound. We have a 24-hour waiting period. I don’t think that’s acceptable.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  39. Appeals Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available, But With Restrictions
    U.S. Saw Highest Abortion Rate in Over a Decade After DobbsThere were more than 1 million abortions in 2023, fueled in part by an increase in medication abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  40. Roe v. Wade and IVF
    Alabama’s IVF Patients Are in Embryo Purgatory“This isn’t something that can wait until next year for me.”
    By Rae Nudson
  41. Supporters of legislation safeguarding IVF treatments hold a rally at the Alabama State House
    Some Alabama IVF Clinics Resume Services Under New LawThe measure aims to shield providers from liability but doesn’t address fetal personhood.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  42. The Exes Who Froze Embryos and Regret ItFrom hurt feelings and debt to legal battles and harassment, the risks of committing by combining DNA are high no matter which state you live in.
    By Emi Nietfeld
  43. March For Reproductive Rights Held In Los Angeles In Response To Abortion Pill Ruling
    Florida Lawmakers Pause Bill That Could Threaten IVFFollowing widespread public outrage over the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  44. Embryology Process
    Alabama Ruled Frozen Embryos Are Children — Now What?Breaking down what the state Supreme Court’s decision means for IVF patients and doctors.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  45. What It Takes to Claw Back Abortion Rights in CourtA lawyer behind challenges in ban states explains the narrow focus on clarifying medical exceptions.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  46. The Biden Campaign Is Finally Talking About AbortionBut it needs to do a lot more than just remind voters it wants to restore Roe.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  47. The Supreme Court Will Decide on Abortion-Pill AccessThe justices have agreed to hear a legal battle that will determine whether mifepristone remains widely available.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  48. Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Woman Who Sued for Emergency AbortionHours before the ruling, Kate Cox left the state to terminate her pregnancy elsewhere as her health deteriorated.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  49. Abortion Wins Again. Now What?Democrats can’t coast on the issue’s popularity.
    By Rebecca Traister
  50. Abortion Rights Swept the 2023 ElectionsVoters enshrined abortion rights in the Ohio constitution and elected pro-choice candidates in Virginia and Kentucky.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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