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I cover abortion for @washingtonpost . she/her. caroline.kitchener @washpost .com, DM for Signal

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Caroline Kitchener

1 year

It’s been the honor of a lifetime to earn the trust of women navigating post-Roe America. Thank you, Pulitzer board, for recognizing the importance of their stories. It means the world to me, and to them.

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Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post

For unflinching reporting that captured the complex consequences of life after Roe v. Wade, including the story of a Texas teenager who gave birth to twins after new restrictions denied her an...

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2 years

Breaking: A Louisiana judge has blocked enforcement of the state’s trigger ban, which banned abortion as soon as Roe was overturned. Abortions are expected to resume soon.

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Breaking: There will be no Republican supermajority in North Carolina. This is HUGE news for abortion rights. Republicans were just a few seats away from winning the power to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto and enact a total or 6-week abortion ban.

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Breaking: A Michigan judge rules that the state's 1931 pre-Roe ban cannot be enforced, granting Gov. Whitmer's request for preliminary injunction. Abortion remains legal in Michigan.

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Breaking: A federal judge has temporarily blocked Kentucky's sweeping antiabortion law. The state's two clinics will resume abortion care.

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4 years

Six weeks into widespread self-quarantine, editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend: Women — who (ofc) shoulder more family responsibility — seem to be submitting fewer papers than usual. There is some evidence that men are submitting *more.* (a thread)

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This is a very sad day for our newsroom. Absolutely outrageous that our publisher wouldn’t answer a single question after announcing widespread layoffs.

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Please enjoy these two male legislators trying to debate IUDs. Republican Rep. Barry Ivey and Danny McCormick of Louisiana...

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Breaking: The Starr County DA is dismissing charges against Lizelle Herrera. “In reviewing applicable Texas law, it is clear that Ms. Herrera cannot and should not be prosecuted for the allegation against her.”

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Scoop: Judge Kacsmaryk in 2017 submitted a law review article criticizing protections for trans people. Ahead of his judicial nomination, he removed his name and swapped in two others. Nominees are required to disclose all publications to the Senate.

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The controversial article Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose to the Senate

The judge who delivered a high-stakes abortion pills ruling last week removed his name from a law review article during his judicial nomination process, emails obtained by The Post show.

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2 years

University of Idaho employees were warned Friday that they could be charged with a felony for talking about abortion, because of the state’s new abortion law. They were also told *they could no longer provide birth control.* Not just Plan B, but regular birth control.

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Last month, I heard about a TX woman with an ectopic pregnancy who was turned away by her doctor, then her ER. Ectopics must be terminated immediately or the patient can die. She drove 12+ hours to New Mexico. I wanted to understand how that happened 🧵

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The Texas abortion ban has a medical exception. But some doctors worry it’s too narrow to use.

A woman with an ectopic pregnancy was turned away, abortion advocates say.

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Antiabortion leaders have anticipated this scenario - it’s why many antiabortion states (ahem, OK) passed law after law after law that all banned abortions.

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2 years

I just spoke with @ewarren , who suggested the Biden administration establish Planned Parenthood outposts on the edges of national parks. "They could put up tents, have trained personnel -- and be there to help people who need it." "It's time to declare a medical emergency."

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Breaking: Louisiana’s trigger ban will remain blocked, state Supreme Court rules. Abortions can continue, per @ReproRights .

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3 years

Women are showing up at clinics today, thinking they are under six weeks. Then they get an ultrasound. At @WholeWomans , a doctor says he’s had to turn away multiple patients who were too far along without knowing it… before 10:30am.

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2 years

Nearly 10 months into the Texas abortion ban, women have started having the babies they never planned to carry to term. I got to know Brooke Alexander — an 18-year-old in Corpus Christi who wanted an abortion, and now has twins.

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This Texas teen wanted an abortion. She now has twins.

Brooke Alexander found out she was pregnant days before the abortion ban took effect.

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Breaking: After a week of legal whiplash, Kate Cox has left Texas to get an abortion elsewhere. Her medical situation was too tenuous to wait, according to @ReproRights . She has been to the ER four times during her pregnancy.

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1 year

Breaking: New reporting from CNN reveals more items Kacsmaryk did not disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He did not list two interviews with a Christian talk radio station, where he discussed contraception and gay rights.

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2 years

SCOOP: Top antiabortion leaders and GOP lawmakers have been meeting behind the scenes to strategize for a national abortion ban, mobilizing around a proposal that would outlaw the procedure at 6 weeks. Here’s what I’ve learned about their plans 🧵

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The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban

Advocates and some GOP lawmakers have started mobilizing around a potential "heartbeat bill" to outlaw abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

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This could have a major impact on the careers of women in academia, esp women going up for tenure. One expert told me: “We don’t want a committee to look at the outlier productivity of, say, a white hetero man with a spouse at home and say, ‘Well, this person managed it.’”

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2 years

Scoop: Several national antiabortion groups and their allies in Republican-led state legislatures are advancing plans to stop people from crossing state lines for abortions. Model legislation is in the works.

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Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines

Some advocacy groups and their allies are crafting legislative language that could be adopted in Republican-led state capitals.

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Caroline Kitchener

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One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her... And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. Powerful reporting from @AmandaSeitz

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Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom

Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S.

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Men w/ kids are affected, too. But it's useful to look at stop-the-clock tenure policies, which allow parents to delay tenure for 1 yr when they have kids: Women tend to use the time at home primarily/ exclusively for child care. Men “find a way” to do more academic work.

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News: @LindseyGrahamSC will introduce a national abortion ban in the Senate tomorrow. Unless something really unexpected has happened, this will be a 15-week ban. Very interesting that it’s being cast as a “late term abortions act” 👀

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NEWS: In the last 24 hours, at least two abortion clinics/networks (Trust Women + Whole Womans Health) have announced that they will NOT immediately stop prescribing mifepristone if the judge rules to suspend or withdraw FDA approval. They will await a directive from the FDA.

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NEWS: Idaho Rep. Brent Crane, chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, says that he wants to consider legislation banning Plan B. He is “not yet certain” about bills banning IUDs. I’ve never heard a state lawmaker speak so openly about that before.

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What Does A "Post-Roe" Idaho Look Like? | Rep. Brent Crane and Rep....

On Monday night, Politico published a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v Wade , revealing that the court is poised to str...

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Breaking: The VT House just voted yes on a constitutional amendment that would make Vermont the first state to enshrine the right to abortion in its state constitution. Now, it's up to the voters. 70 percent of Vermonters believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

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NEWS: Late last night CT passed a first-of-its-kind abortion rights bill designed to protect patients traveling to CT for abortions and their providers from lawsuits out of antiabortion states. Experts say it’s the gold standard for the post-Roe era.

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Conn. lawmakers pass bill to be ‘place of refuge’ for abortion patients

Legislation approved Friday adds Connecticut to a list of Democrat-led states that have sought to bolster abortion protections in advance of a Supreme Court decision that could overturn or weaken Roe...

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Breaking: The SC legislature rejects a near-total abortion ban, with lawmakers unable to agree on exceptions. A 6-week ban is temporarily blocked. Two months post Roe, SC has become an unlikely haven for abortion access (for now). Abortion is still legal up to 20 weeks.

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I talked to three female academics who are delaying career goals because they need to take care of their kids during coronavirus.

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Brooke’s feelings on the law are complicated. She loves her babies, deeply, but she also aches for the life she may never get to lead. I am extremely grateful that she trusted me with her story. I hope you’ll read it.

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Breaking: Oklahoma just passed a total abortion ban. This was completely unexpected. Lawmakers unearthed a bill that passed the senate *last year,* instead of moving forward on one of the many measures proposed this year. It now goes to the Republican governor for a signature.

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Breaking: Republicans in Louisiana have killed the bill that would have classified abortion as a homicide and allowed prosecutors to charge pregnant women with murder. They are drawing that line, for now.

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NEW: Two friends experienced the same life-threatening pregnancy complication in Florida. Both were turned away from the hospital because of the state’s abortion ban. One nearly died. Read their stories, as FL prepares to pass a far stricter ban:

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Just got out of the Amarillo courthouse: Kacsmaryk appeared to seriously entertain claims that mifepristone is unsafe — and asked plaintiffs for guidance on whether his court could order the FDA to withdraw approval. Wow. Story with @PerryStein @amarimow

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Texas judge seems open to claim abortion drug was not properly vetted

U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk says he will rule as soon as possible on FDA approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medical abortions.

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NEW from @LaFronteraFund : Lizelle Herrera has been released on bail and has secured legal counsel.

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Read the full story on @thelilynews :

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Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus. ‘Never seen anything like...

Men are submitting up to 50 percent more

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I spent today in a Houston abortion clinic. They had 20 patients on the schedule — and had to figure out how to turn them away. Grateful to the providers, staff and patients who trusted me to observe these vulnerable moments that will go down in history.

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‘We’re done’: Chaos and tears as an abortion clinic abruptly shuts down

An emotional scene unfolded as this Texas clinic turned away patients as soon as the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

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Gov. Cooper's announcement here:

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Governor Roy Cooper

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We stopped a GOP supermajority tonight when North Carolinians voted for balance and progress. I’ll continue to work with this legislature to support a growing economy, more clean energy, better health care and strong public schools. - RC

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Breaking: The Florida Senate just voted to ban abortion after 6 weeks, before most people know they're pregnant.

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We talked to Democrats and Republicans who have worked on judicial nominations and said that this scenario is highly unusual, without knowing the name of the judge. A Republican who worked under Bush called it “problematic” and “a little bit shady.” W/ @scotusreporter @amarimow

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. @einatlev1 recently heard from a male colleague, who began his career around the same time she did. He also has young kids, but his wife stays at home. “On the bright side of things,” he wrote of his time in self-quarantine, “this gives me time to concentrate on writing.”

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SCOOP: Judge Kacsmaryk has scheduled a hearing Wednesday in the abortion pills case — and tried to keep it under wraps, citing security concerns. It is highly unusual to intentionally delay posting a hearing to the public docket. W/ @amarimow @PerryStein

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After unusual delay, Texas judge announces abortion-pill hearing

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk took the highly unusual steps in hopes of minimizing protests and threats in connection with the case, people familiar with the plan said.

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To quote Einat: “Sigh & Scream.”

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@El_Dritch My experience exactly. I just received an email from a male colleague of my same rank and family status (young kids). Except, he has a full-time stay at home wife. His email read "this is a strange time but at least now, away from teaching, I can focus on writing." Sigh & Scream.

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While the woman with the ectopic was able to get treatment in NM, doctors said that kind of delay could have cost her her life. If a patient shows up with signs of an ectopic, one doc told me, “You do not have time to send her to another hospital, much less out of state.”

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It's hard to overstate the significance of this result for abortion access. North Carolina is a major destination for people from antiabortion states right now. The number of abortions there have increased more since Dobbs than any other state in the country.

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Breaking: Judge Kacsmaryk has stayed the FDA approval of mifepristone, the abortion pill that has been approved for over two decades. This is slated to take effect in seven days.

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. @einatlev1 (1 daughter at home, age 7) is up for tenure this fall. She won’t be able to finish the 5 papers her review board said were necessary. “They might look at [my portfolio] and think, ‘You were home for four months, why weren’t you writing?’”

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. @thePhDandMe (2 kids at home, ages 4 & 9) was up for tenure in September, and decided to delay a year. My “fear is just, does this look bad? We understand what a typical timeline looks like. How does it look to ask for an extension?”

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Breaking: The Michigan court of claims rules that the 1931 abortion ban still on the books is unconstitutional. Abortion remains legal in Michigan. This is significant. Similar laws in other states (WI, AZ) have severely limited abortion access since Dobbs.

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. @EricaLWilliams7 (2 kids at home, ages 4 & 17) hoped to become a full professor in the next 2-3 years. She hasn’t been able to touch either book project she’ll need to complete to reach that goal.

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Next up: Michigan voters. They'll likely get to vote on whether abortion is constitutionally protected in their state, via a ballot initiative in November.

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Some career news: I’ll be joining the Washington Post politics team in mid January to cover the politics of abortion. As we head into a year that could end Roe v. Wade, I’ll be focusing on state houses, spending a lot of time in places where abortion access is most under threat.

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Our story on the dismissal:

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Murder charges to be dropped for Texas woman arrested over abortion

The district attorney’s office overseeing the case said this was “not a criminal matter.”

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NEW: Highways are the next antiabortion target. Activists are traveling from city to city in TX to pass new laws that make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion out of state on roads within the city or county limits. Reporting from Llano, TX:

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Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting.

A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion

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4 years

There have never been this many women living alone. The last time we experienced anything like this — the 1918 flu — most women left their parents' homes to move in with their husbands. Now we're staying single longer, choosing to end marriages or not get married at all.

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NEW: Many abortion clinics say they will not stop prescribing mifepristone until they receive a directive from the FDA. “The bottom line is that Judge Kacsmaryk does not give our physicians orders." w/ @rachel_roubein

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Abortion providers grapple with conflicting rulings on a key pill

Some abortion clinics are vowing to continue prescribing mifepristone while others may change how they offer abortions if the Texas ruling stands.

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NEW: Researchers at UCSF have released a first-of-its-kind report documenting dozens of health complications resulting from abortion bans, including patients turned away with cesarean scar ectopic pregnancies.

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Abortion laws triggered dozens of health complications, new report says

Researchers collected 50 examples of pregnancy-related complications where new abortion laws impacted the standard of care

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Though an ectopic is widely considered an emergency, doctors worry that, legally, it may be unclear WHEN it becomes an “emergency.” An ectopic becomes most urgent once the fallopian tube (where the fetus is growing) ruptures. But most docs want to intervene before that happens.

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The TX ban does have a medical exception — but it’s narrow and extremely vague. Doctors are allowed to perform abortions in a “medical emergency.” SB 8 says little about how that’s defined.

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NEW: Matthew Kacsmaryk, the Texas judge who could soon halt the abortion pill, has deep antiabortion beliefs that go back decades. We spent time in west TX, read his college paper, and interviewed 20 people who know him. Some big finds, w/ @amarimow (🧵)

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The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill

A devout Christian, Matthew Kacsmaryk has been shaped by his deep antiabortion beliefs

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NEWS: Kansas lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow cities + counties to ban abortion -- despite the August referendum where Kansans voted overwhelmingly in favor of protecting abortion rights.

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When the woman with the ectopic pregnancy called the @NatAbortionFed hotline, she told them her doctor said they couldn’t perform the procedure because they were “nervous” about getting sued.

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Breaking: Two very important lawsuits have been filed this morning, one in NC and one in WV, both challenging a state's ability to ban FDA-approved abortion pills. If successful, these lawsuits could make it legal again for people to obtain abortion pills *nationwide.*

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Alan Braid criticized this aspect of the law when I asked him about it. “Do you have to wait until it’s about to rupture? Until it has? How do you make that decision under this law?”

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81 percent of precincts reporting in Kentucky and the abortion rights side is more then five points ahead. *In Kentucky*

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👀👀👀 Those Kentucky results. Still early, but wow. According to Pew, Kentucky is one of the three most antiabortion states in the country.

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Scoop: A Texas man has filed legal action to investigate his ex-partner who got an abortion *in Colorado,* where abortion remains legal. The latest antiabortion strategy to intimidate + stop women from crossing state lines.

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Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner’s out-of-state abortion

The previously unreported petition reflects a potential new antiabortion strategy to block women from ending their pregnancies in states where abortion is legal.

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Breaking: Florida passes a 6-week abortion ban. This outlaws abortion in one of the country's most populous states and eliminates a critical access point for abortions in the South. One clinic director said: “That’s a crisis that’s going to ripple all across the entire country"

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Antiabortion laws will sometimes use vague terms to describe medication abortion, referring to "abortion inducing drugs," which could be interpreted to include Plan B. But wow. I've never heard a leading state lawmaker be so direct about plans to consider this kind of bill.

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Breaking: A judge has blocked West Virginia’s old pre-Roe ban that has halted abortion care in the state since Roe was overturned three weeks ago.

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NEWS: In the last 48 hours, two more TX jurisdictions (Chandler + Mason county) have voted down the ordinances that antiabortion activists are using to try to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state to get an abortion.

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Highways are the next antiabortion target. One Texas town is resisting.

A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion

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Covering the 15 week bans as they moved through FL, WV and AZ legislatures this spring, I never remember them being referred to in that way. Republican lawmakers were eager to stress that they were banning as many abortions as possible.

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As Planned Parenthood told me when I asked for comment, none of this is particularly surprising. It’s an end game that abortion rights advocates have anticipated all along. Now it’s just out in the open. 9/9

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Since Dobbs, doctors have been left to shoulder life-and-death decisions about abortion care. Many begged their hospitals for guidance — and got nothing. Read our 5-month investigation into hospitals that have failed to back up their doctors. W/ @ddiamond

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Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions

Vaguely worded medical exceptions in abortion bans, and a lack of guidance on interpreting them, have led to some patients being denied care until they are critically ill.

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SB 8’s medical exception is also narrower than those in many other states. Patients with preexisting conditions that make their pregnancies more dangerous — pulmonary hypertension, certain heart conditions — likely wouldn’t be covered.

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NEWS: North Dakota’s abortion ban will remain blocked. The state Supreme Court said today that the constitution protects the right to abortion. The states only abortion clinic has already moved to Minnesota.

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Some women told us they wish they weren't alone, others said they wouldn't have it any other way. To pass the time, women said they've been trimming hedges, making memes, baking cookies without flour. Some could remember the exact moment they last touched another person.

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Gina Fernandes, 33, has been avoiding virtual game nights with her college friends. Almost all of them have partners. “Everybody is coupled up, like Noah’s Arc. Here we are at the end of the world and I am in my apartment for one.”

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Breaking: Strict abortion bans died in two Republican dominated legislatures today. A near-total ban failed in South Carolina and a 6-week ban will not move forward in Nebraska.

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Other states use much more specific language in their gestational bans. SB 8 leaves doctors wondering, and scared.

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Gov. Abbott just banned abortions after six weeks in Texas. I wrote about a 17-year-old who petitioned a judge to have an abortion without parental consent. That process can take up to a month. She found out she was pregnant at 5 and a half weeks.

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This 17-year-old needs an abortion in Texas. First, she has to make her case in court.

Texas requires minors to get parental consent, but her parents are antiabortion.

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Irma Villarreal, 61, recently lost her husband of 35 years. She’s been talking to him more lately, sitting in her sunroom to be close to his urn. “I really miss you,” she’ll say. “This is a really hard time.”

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Breaking: Michigan courts have temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state's pre-Roe abortion ban from 1931, siding with Planned Parenthood. Nine states have pre-Roe bans still on the books, which could come back to life if Roe is overturned.

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Abortion rights protestors tend to stay away from the March for Life, activists told me today. Not this year. This is the Basilica in Washington tonight, the largest Catholic Church in the country. (c/o @Catholic4Choice )

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Nine months ago, I started talking to women who needed abortions in states where abortion was no longer legal. Some found a way to end their pregnancies. One just had a baby. Listen to their stories, on this special episode of @ThisAmerLife

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‎This American Life on Apple Podcasts

‎Society & Culture · 2024

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Breaking: A judge has overturned Georgia’s six-week abortion ban, ruling that it violated the constitution when it became law (in 2019, pre-Dobbs). Georgia abortion clinics can resume their full services.

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On March 30, @thelilynews asked to hear from women who are self-quarantined alone. We got almost 1,300 responses. Those responses became 20+ interviews, which became 7 stories: one woman living alone in each decade, ages 24 to 86. (a thread)

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Breaking: An Indiana judge has temporarily blocked the state's near-total ban. Abortions can resume in Indiana, for now, up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.

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2 years

Just in: The Idaho state Supreme Court has blocked Idaho’s version of the Texas abortion ban. This is big news. And signals that, outside of Texas and the Fifth Circuit, courts may see this type of law very differently.

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🚨Republican leadership refused to allow a vote on a law to repeal the 1864 law. This is key: republicans who said they would vote to repeal voted against allowing the vote to take place.

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The effort to debate repealing Arizona’s 1864 abortion law fails @CAKitchener

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2 years

A little more context here: “late term abortion” is not a medical term, but a political one deployed almost exclusively by the antiabortion camp. To the extent that it’s used, it’s generally understood to refer to abortions after 24 weeks or so.

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Will pause here to say that a strict nationwide ban would be extremely difficult to pass, requiring 60 votes in the senate and a Republican president. But antiabortion leaders are eyeing the midterms and 2024 — and they’ll be using these kinds of proposals as a rallying cry. 7/

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In the first SOTU since Roe v Wade was overturned, it took Biden almost an hour to mention abortion. He spent four sentences on the issue, then moved on.

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NEW: A Republican legislator has proposed a first-of-its-kind law to stop Missouri residents from accessing abortion *outside of Missouri.* Planned Parenthood calls it “the most extraordinary provision we have ever seen.”

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Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state

Abortion rights advocates say the measure is unconstitutional. But it could signal a new strategy by the antiabortion movement to extend influence beyond the conservative states poised to tighten...

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Breaking: Florida Supreme Court upholds the 15 week ban, allowing the 6 week ban to take effect in 30 days. Massive implications for women in Florida and across the South. At the same time, they court approves the issue for the ballot in November -- so voters will get a say.

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Breaking: The DOJ has appealed the abortion pills case, asking the Supreme Court to intervene. It's a very tight timeline -- if SCOTUS doesn't act before midnight tonight, strict restrictions on mifepristone will take effect across the country.

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The Texas abortion ban changed everything about their lives. At 19, Brooke is married and caring for her twins full-time, as she and her husband struggle to hold it all together. I wrote about Brooke and Billy last June. A lot has happened in a year.

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An abortion ban made them teen parents. This is life two years later.

Brooke and Billy High, first featured in a widely read Washington Post story last year, are caring for their twin daughters in a new city, trying their best to hold it all together.

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This is extremely misleading, or really just incorrect. All states with near-total abortion bans outlaw both surgical abortions and abortion pills. Wyoming is just the first state to have a specific ban for abortion pills.

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Breaking News: Wyoming has become the first U.S. state to ban abortion pills, adding momentum to an effort by conservative states to target medication abortion.

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