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Dec 13, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Lizzie Chadbourne
Trump is busy getting ready for Day One of his presidency – but so is Truthout. Trump has made it no secret that he is planning a demolition-style attack on both specific communities and democracy as a whole, beginning on his first day in office.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Lizzie Chadbourne
The Republican National Committee follows Trump’s lead in hiding anti-abortion schemes behind a veneer of moderation.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Lizzie Chadbourne
The struggle for reproductive justice is about more than legal rights — it’s about bodily autonomy and access to care. ByLizzie Chadbourne, TruthoutPublishedJune 24, 2024Reproductive rights activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024.JIM WATSON / AFP via Getty ImagesTwo years after the Supreme Court decision Dobbs v.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Lizzie Chadbourne
When Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was decided in the summer of 2022, ending the constitutional protection of abortion rights in the United States, calls for the creation of underground networks of abortion helpers echoed across communities supportive of reproductive freedom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Lizzie Chadbourne |Brian Moench |George Yancy |Mecca Monarch
Skip to contentSkip to footerDon’t be fooled by the NYPD’s lip service to autism awareness: Policing isn’t “Neurodiversity-friendly.”Part of the SeriesThe Road to AbolitionApril is Autism Awareness Month, an often disappointing period of time for the autistic community. We watch public spaces implement increased accessibility measures only to promptly remove them on May 1, as if autistic individuals only deserve inclusion during this one month.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Julia Conley |Zane McNeill |Sharon Zhang |Lizzie Chadbourne
Mounting news reports since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year have detailed the experiences of pregnant people who have been denied lifesaving abortion care, and in the case of one woman in Oklahoma last month, the state’s abortion ban effectively barred her from receiving cancer treatment. Jaci Statton, a 25-year-old mother of three, experienced heavy bleeding in February after feeling nauseous, dizzy, and weak for several weeks.
