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Texas GOP Outlaws Local Governments From Having ‘Any Transaction’ With Abortion Providers

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Jun 24, 2019, 4:09pm Erin Heger

The law is intended to target the Planned Parenthood health center in Austin, Texas, which doesn't provide abortion care.

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News Immigration

‘Willful Recklessness’: Trump Pushes for Indefinite Family Detention

Jun 21, 8:23am Renée Feltz

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News Health Systems

For Women of Color on Medicaid, Health-Care Options More Likely to Include Catholic Hospitals

Jun 21, 10:44am Amy Littlefield

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Analysis Law and Policy

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Hyde Amendment and Efforts to End It

Jun 21, 10:28am Ally Boguhn

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Rhode Island Legislators Overcome Anti-Choice Democrats to Pass ‘Roe’ Protections

Jun 21, 3:05pm Auditi Guha

Passing the Reproductive Privacy Act has been an uphill battle for advocates in Rhode Island, a Catholic Church stronghold where some Democratic legislators oppose abortion rights.

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Abortion

Massachusetts Governor Says He’s Pro-Choice. But He Might Not Sign a Pro-Choice Bill.

Jun 20, 1:53pm Auditi Guha

While he supported repealing antiquated anti-choice laws, Gov. Charlie Baker (R) has not come out in support of legislation that would expand access to later abortion care.

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Law and Policy

Trump Official Grilled Over Administration’s Family Planning ‘Gag Rule’

Jun 19, 5:00pm Ally Boguhn

Diane Foley, the Trump official overseeing the office in charge of Title X funding, denied that the administration's directive against abortion referrals was a "gag rule."

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Abortion

Here’s How Missouri’s Governor ‘Weaponized Government’ Against the State’s Last Abortion Clinic (Updated)

Jun 19, 9:42am Dennis Carter

A former judge who has urged people to donate to a group that opposes abortion rights could have a say in whether Missouri's last abortion clinic remains open.

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Disabled People Have Had the Legal Right to Live in Their Communities for 20 Years. But That’s Still Not the Reality for Many.

Jun 19, 10:24am Robyn Powell

Despite the improvements following the Olmstead v. L.C. decision two decades ago, disabled people continue to be unjustifiably institutionalized.

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Abortion

New York Is the First City to Fund Abortion Directly. Let’s Make Sure It’s Not the Last.

Jun 17, 3:39pm Alicia Johnson

Family

As Fathers, We Must Commit to Dismantling the Patriarchy

Jun 14, 3:25pm Garin Marschall

Politics

Can Activists Trust Nancy Pelosi’s Instincts on Impeachment?

Jun 13, 9:57am Jeff Hauser & Eleanor Eagan

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Transgender Rights Get Important Win in Ninth Circuit

Jun 18, 11:12am Jessica Mason Pieklo

A decision issued Friday means anti-transgender policies must have an "exceedingly persuasive justification" to be constitutional.

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Immigration

Immigration Officials Push Health-Care Providers to ‘Clear’ Pregnant Migrants for Detention

Jun 12, 10:48am Tina Vasquez

Law and Policy

The Nuns Are Back Before the Supreme Court, and They’re Trying to Kill the Birth Control Benefit for Good (Updated)

Jun 12, 10:15am Jessica Mason Pieklo

Law and Policy

Missouri Lawmakers’ ‘Cowardly’ Attempts to Silence Voters on Abortion Rights

Jun 7, 3:31pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Multimedia

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Boom! Lawyered: This Case Could Define Transgender Rights for a Generation

Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that policies targeting transgender people are sex-based discrimination that must meet heightened scrutiny to be constitutional. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo evaluate this important—but qualified—win for transgender rights and what it means for those rights in the future.

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: How the Supreme Court Could Use the Census to Bless White Power in America

Jun 13, 8:44am Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Eisner-Nominated Original Comic: Pablo Leon’s ‘The Journey’

Jan 8, 8:29am Pablo Leon

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: What’s It Like to Sue the Trump Administration?

Jun 6, 11:58am Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Clarence Thomas Just Declared War on Your Birth Control

May 30, 8:32am Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Investigations

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Abortion

These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans

Jun 14, 1:30pm Alex Kotch

A web of state and national groups spent millions of dollars on organizing and lobbying in the states to pass this year’s abortion bans. But where did the money come from to make this all possible?

Violence

#MeToo in Indian Country: ‘We Don’t Talk About This Enough’

May 29, 12:13pm Mary Annette Pember

The barriers and repercussions to reporting both assault and harassment reach far and deep in Native communities; women have been effectively silenced for generations, especially when it comes to reporting their own.

Immigration

Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention

May 28, 8:32am Tina Vasquez

“I don’t know if they lose their babies for good,” one doctor said. “But I do know the process is torturous for them.”

Religion Dispatches

Politics/Law

A Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’

Jun 24, 12:26pm Frederick Clarkson

The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon.

Politics/Law

Nxivm Scam Is Dead, but ‘Brainwashing’ Pseudoscience Lives On

Jun 21, 4:41pm James T. Richardson

This history clearly shows why most courts in the United States are reticent to accept brainwashing theories today. The science underlying such claims is faulty, and courts have realized that accepting such claims undercuts the very basis of the legal system, which is that individuals are responsible for their own actions.

Religious Liberty

SCOTUS’ Bladensburg Cross Ruling Is a Church-State Mess

Jun 20, 2:37pm Andrew L. Seidel

Alito’s majority opinion is bereft of both principle and reason. He could have been more concise and lost little nuance by simply writing: 'The 40ft tall Christian cross is really old and people will get upset if we remove it, so it stays.'

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Culture & Conversation

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Abortion

Our Society’s Lack of Support for Babies with Down Syndrome Made Me More Pro-Choice Than Ever

Jun 14, 9:45am Dakota Kim

Given proper medical and social support, I knew I would keep my fetus if it had a Down syndrome diagnosis. But I knew I personally would not be able to give that child a fair life, and that is my private choice to make.

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Abortion

A Black Midwesterner’s Perspective on Abortion Access, Regional Culture, and Why People Should Care About the Midwest

Jun 11, 3:00pm Jasmine Burnett

When reporting on the Midwest, media outlets often forget about communities subject to state violence and suppression.

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Immigration

What Is ‘Sanctuary’ for a Black Immigrant Family in the US?

Jun 10, 9:10am Tina Vasquez

The Thompsons may be the only Black family in sanctuary, but they want you to know they are a family first and asylum seekers second.

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Analysis

The Law Should Protect Wiccans From Religious Discrimination—But Will It?

Jun 21, 12:38pm Imani Gandy

Pauline Hoffmann alleges that the Catholic university at which she was a professor denied her a promotion and pressured her to resign because she's a Wiccan.

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