Alanna Vagianos
Senior Reporter at HuffPost
Senior reporter @HuffPost covering gender + politics, focused on abortion & gender-based violence. [email protected] or avagianos.25 on Signal
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1 week ago |
huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos
As law enforcement in Minnesota searched desperately for the man who shot two members of the state legislature and their spouses on Saturday, Amy Hagstrom Miller found out the shooter was carrying a target list that included abortion providers and advocates. The president and founder of Whole Woman’s Health didn’t know if the national organization’s Minnesota abortion clinic in Bloomington, just 30 minutes south of where police last saw the shooter, was on the list.
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2 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos
The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill on Tuesday that would repeal a 30-year-old federal law created to safeguard abortion clinics ā even as violence against providers and clinics has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act, was enacted in 1994 by President Bill Clinton in response to escalating violence against abortion clinics.
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3 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos
Jay Mitchell, the former Alabama Supreme Court justice behind the contentious ruling that effectively banned in vitro fertilization for a short period last year, announced this week he is running for state attorney general. “With President Trump in the White House, we have a unique opportunity to get conservative wins here in Alabama,” Mitchell said in a Monday statement announcing his run.
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3 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos
Maria Rojas, a Houston-area midwife, was arrested in March for allegedly violating Texas’ near-total abortion ban. She was held for 10 days in the same jail where Sandra Bland died after a routine traffic stop in 2015. Rojas was able to post the exorbitant $1.4 million bail, but her phone was seized and her license was stripped — and with it her ability to make an income. She was court-ordered to wear a tracking device. “In Texas, life is sacred.
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3 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Alanna Vagianos
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday rescinded a Biden-era guideline around emergency abortion care. The move has no direct legal impacts on care, but it sends a clear message on where the Trump administration stands on abortion access. Abortion advocates also tell HuffPost that the guideline repeal will create more confusion for physicians on the ground, and lead to more delays and denials of care.
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