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2 days ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Dr. Shelley Sella kept a journal from the very first day she got on a plane to go work for George Tiller, the third-trimester abortion provider who was assassinated in 2009. As the first woman to openly provide third-trimester abortions in the US, she spent nearly 20 years commuting from her home in California to Tiller’s clinic in Kansas, and then, after his murder, to the storied Southwest Women’s Options abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3 days ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

Dr. Emily Hawes-Van Pelt, an OB-GYN working in Minneapolis, didn’t consider herself an expert on fighting racism in health care. Then in May 2020, George Floyd was murdered a few blocks from her hospital. “What we knew about the world, many of us”—she looked out at an audience of doctors, most of them Black like her—“became very clear to lots of people. ​I was angry, I was bitter, I was frustrated, and I thought, What can I do? How can I help?

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Madison Pauly

Share One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom,” including abortion, in the state constitution, that would be the end of the conversation. In overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the US Supreme Court professed that the question of whether abortion should be legal was now up to states. And the people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights ( at least until fetal viability ).

1 week ago | motherjones.com | Madison Pauly

One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom,” including abortion, in the state constitution, that would be the end of the conversation. In overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the US Supreme Court professed that the question of whether abortion should be legal was now up to states. And the people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights (at least until fetal viability).

1 week ago | gaysonoma.com | Madison Pauly

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