Julie Bowen

Aug 7, 2023 | truthout.org | Julia Conley |Chris Walker |Julie Bowen |Lizzie Chadbourne

Recent polling in Ohio has shown that a majority of residents disapprove of a proposed measure that will be on ballots across the state in a special election on Tuesday, but abortion rights advocates have spent recent days warning voters that failing to block the proposal could have major repercussions for reproductive freedom in the state.

Jul 9, 2023 | truthout.org | Martin Donohoe |Ja’Loni Owens |Julie Bowen |Lizzie Chadbourne

Academic medical centers’ lackluster defense of abortion access is moral malpractice. It’s time for civil disobedience. It has been more than one year since the United States Supreme Court, in a controversial decision not supported by a majority of Americans, overturned Roe v. Wade, returning authority over abortion’s legality to the states. Since the decision in Dobbs v.

Jul 3, 2023 | truthout.org | Tina Vasquez |Julie Bowen |Lizzie Chadbourne |Emily Janakiram

“One year post-Roe” is an as-told-to series led by Prism’s Editor-at-Large Tina Vásquez, marking the milestone by featuring new and veteran advocates and organizers, abortion storytellers, providers, clinic directors, abortion fund volunteers, and reproductive justice organizers. You can read the complete series here.

Jul 2, 2023 | truthout.org | Gina Jimenez |Julie Bowen |Lizzie Chadbourne |Emily Janakiram

Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa Maria, California, suspected the ethidium bromide she was using in the lab for molecular cloning could put her and her baby at risk. She wasn’t sure what to do; she was only a few weeks into her pregnancy and didn’t know how it would affect her career.