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Ninth Circuit to Hear Arguments on Trump’s Domestic ‘Gag Rule’

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Sep 20, 2019, 11:03am Imani Gandy

The court could rule in the administration’s favor based on a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld nearly identical changes to the Title X program.

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Investigations Abortion

A Teenager in Mexico Needed an Abortion After Being Raped. Getting One Was Legal, but Nearly Impossible.

Sep 17, 7:00am Amy Littlefield & Laura Gottesdiener

Jessica Mason Pieklo

Commentary Law and Policy

A Year Later, A New Allegation Against Kavanaugh. Will It Change Anything?

Sep 16, 5:27pm

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News Abortion

Abortion Patients Across the South Are Traveling to North Carolina for Care

Sep 16, 2:52pm Erin Heger

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Abortion Rights Foes Use Indiana Fetal Remains Discovery for Political Gain

Sep 20, 12:02pm Alys Brooks

The Trump administration and anti-choice lawmakers are using the case of Ulrich Klopfer to attack abortion providers as dangerous and unregulated.

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Health Systems

Faith-Based Hospitals Are Not Adequately Training Residents in Abortion Procedures

Sep 19, 11:13am Amy Littlefield

A lack of such training can hinder residents throughout their careers.

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Law and Policy

Anti-Choice Activist David Daleiden Gets Bad News in Court

Sep 18, 4:49pm Helen Christophi

A California judge on Tuesday said David Daleiden "was engaged in criminal activity irrespective of his journalistic status.”

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Law and Policy

Witness Against Anti-Choice Activists Says She Was Harassed After Testifying

Sep 12, 3:20pm Helen Christophi

The witness had been surreptitiously filmed in 2015 by anti-choice activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt as part of a smear campaign against abortion providers and fetal tissue researchers.

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Conservatives Say They Want to End Abortions. The ‘Gag Rule’ Will Do the Opposite.

Sep 19, 3:03pm Ellen Friedrichs

Abortion rates have been on the decline in the United States since the 1980s, due in large part to an increase in the use of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, according to new research.

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Politics

What I Want the Democratic Candidates to Say About Abortion—Without Being Asked

Sep 19, 11:43am Renee Bracey Sherman

Law and Policy

Smoke and Mirrors: Ivanka Trump’s Trip to Latin America and the Global ‘Gag Rule’

Sep 18, 10:22am Beirne Roose-Snyder

Abortion

Tennessee Lawmakers Cut Off My Mic, but I Won’t Be Silenced

Sep 11, 1:28pm Cherisse Scott

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Texas Law Requires Patients to Bury or Cremate Fetal Tissue. Now, the Fifth Circuit Is Weighing In.

Sep 5, 12:52pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

Anti-abortion advocates hope they can get the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to help advance fetal "personhood."

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Politics

The GOP Presidential Candidate Who Supports Abortion Rights

Sep 4, 10:40am Lauren Holter

Politics

Why Kirsten Gillibrand’s Run for President Mattered

Sep 3, 2:11pm Ally Boguhn

Law and Policy

A Judge Blocked Missouri’s Extreme Abortion Ban, but We’re Not Out of the Woods

Aug 28, 10:14am Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Multimedia

Boom! Lawyered: Predicting the Next Two Years

The last couple years have been a wild ride, to say the least. Boom! Lawyered celebrates our two-year anniversary by looking ahead to the next two years. What's in store for reproductive rights, LGBTQ equality, and the integrity of the Supreme Court? Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy offer their predictions—and a ray of hope.

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Investigations

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Politics

An Anti-Choice Group Misspent $50,000 on Religious Material. North Carolina Wants to Give It $400,000 More. (Updated)

Jul 11, 10:35am Amy Littlefield

Amid a budget showdown, legislators have allocated a record amount of at least $2.64 million in state funds to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers in North Carolina.

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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.

Religion Dispatches

Politics/Law

The Student Debt Crisis Is So Bad Even Clergy Are Packing Their Bags

Sep 13, 1:31pm Willie Dwayne Francois

Millions of taxpayers, particularly those fortunate enough to not accrue education debt and those who diligently paid off their debts, reject the idea of taking on the debt of people who consciously entered college with this burden. But structural and moral crises like this one require a legislative approach that no household savings plan or practice offers.

History/Theology

Jerry Falwell Jr. Is Corrupt, but Liberty U’s Problems Go Far Deeper

Sep 12, 4:18pm Will E. Young

Scathing new reports demonstrate that Jerry Falwell Jr. is unfit to be Liberty University’s president, but while Falwell’s departure is long overdue, it would only represent the removal of one rotten apple, while leaving the tree in place.

Religious Liberty

Refusal of Interracial Couple Shows How Slippery the Slope of LGBTQ Refusal Really Is

Sep 11, 12:30pm Heron Greenesmith

After the owner of a wedding hall was caught on tape refusing an interracial couple "because of our Christian race," questions are resurfacing about the possibility that anti-LGBTQ "religious exemptions" might be paving the way for legalized racial discrimination.

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Culture & Conversation

Abortion

Abortion Doulas, With or Without the Title, Provide a Critical Service

Sep 16, 12:13pm S. Nicole Lane

“I'm an abortion doula because I see it as a way to ensure a world that is more healed, more just, and more free.”

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Abortion

’13 Reasons Why’ Missed an Opportunity to Show a Major Hurdle for Teens Seeking Abortion

Sep 13, 11:47am Paige Alexandria

At Jane’s Due Process, I hear from teens nationwide experiencing the burden of parental consent laws.

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Media

More Books I Loved That Will Carry You Into the Fall

Sep 13, 10:48am Victoria Law

My favorites include With the Fire on High, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and The Satapur Moonstone.

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Analysis

Federal Court Blocks North Dakota Law Forcing Doctors to Lie to Patients About Abortion Reversal

Sep 10, 5:50pm Imani Gandy

The notion that medication abortion can be reversed has been gathering steam over the last several years, even though there is not a shred of scientific evidence to suggest that abortion reversal is possible.

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