Natasha Roy

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Editor at Rewire News Group

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What Is EMTALA? How Trump Just Overrode Federal Law on Emergency Abortions

3 days ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

Hospitals in the United States are no longer obligated to perform emergency abortions to prevent organ loss, severe hemorrhaging, and other serious complications in pregnant patients, according to new federal guidance.
Why Missouri Republicans Are Clinging to 'Roe' for Dear Life

3 days ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

Missouri is scrambling to keep its abortion restrictions on the books—after voters already passed a constitutional amendment in November 2024 protecting the right to abortion in the state. And it’s using an unexpected legal maneuver to defend those laws in court: resuscitating Roe v. Wade. This is a bitter legal irony. Missouri Republicans spent decades passing cruel, medically unnecessary abortion restrictions.
The Kids Are Not All Right-How Trump's Mental Health Policies Could Make the Crisis Worse

5 days ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

The White House’s attacks on mental health care are exacerbating a youth mental health crisis already raging across the U.S. As Rainesford Stauffer reported for Rewire News Group, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s skepticism of the medications used to treat depression, anxiety, and ADHD has some college students concerned they could lose access to the drugs that allow them to live, study, and feel like themselves.
How Abortion Laws Focusing on Fetal Viability Miss the Mark on Women’s Experiences

1 week ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

During the 2024 presidential campaign, politicians and their surrogates repeatedly raised concerns about abortion later in pregnancy. The topic grabbed media attention and continues to inspire strong emotions, but most of the discussions include numerous misunderstandings. These debates tend to focus almost exclusively on the status of a presumed healthy fetus: Does it have a heartbeat? Can it feel pain? Can it survive outside of the pregnant person’s body?
As Anti-Trans Laws Get More Extreme, Here’s Where State Laws Stand in 2025

1 week ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

This story was originally reported by Orion Rummler of The 19th, and republished through Rewire News Group’s partnership with The 19th News Network. Since 2020, every new year has brought a new record of state bills attempting to roll back transgender rights. Most of that legislation has not become law. Even as the sheer volume of bills continues to grow, LGBTQ+ advocates continue to defeat the majority of them. But each year, Republicans introduce more and more bills.
‘Pride Puppy’ Author Talks LGBTQ+ Book Ban and SCOTUS Case

1 week ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

This week Imani and Jess have a very special guest join the pod. Robin Stevenson, author of the LGTBQ+ children’s book Pride Puppy, joins Boom! Lawyered to talk about what it’s like having her work at the center of the Supreme Court fight in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Listen in as Stevenson shares her experience being targeted by the conservative legal movement, and learn what folks everywhere can do to support banned books and their authors.
What Top IVF Advocates Want From the White House Fertility Care Plan

1 week ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

Republican President Donald Trump, who called himself the “father of IVF” on the campaign trail, issued an executive order in February directing policy advisers to create a report on how to make in vitro fertilization more accessible for Americans. “Today, many hopeful couples dream of starting a family, but as many as one in seven are unable to conceive a child,” the order read.
College Students Struggle With Mental Health Care Under Trump

1 week ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

This story is part of our monthly series, Campus Dispatch. Read the rest of the stories in the series here. Content note: This story mentions physical abuse, sexual abuse, and eating disorders. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, you can contact the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or The Trevor Project hotline. The state of the nation is taking a toll on Gráinne, a 22-year-old community college student in Texas.
SCOTUS Effectively Blocks Nation’s First Publicly Funded Religious Charter School

2 weeks ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

In an unsigned one-page opinion, the Supreme Court on May 22 split 4-4 on whether Oklahoma could create the country’s first publicly-funded Catholic charter school. Because of the tie, a prior court ruling that the religious school cannot receive public funding stands—for now. The ruling involved two cases—Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond—which were consolidated into a single Supreme Court case.
Kansas Abortion Rights Advocacy Group Sues State Officials Over Law Banning Foreign Contributions

2 weeks ago | rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy

TOPEKA—A Kansas reproductive rights advocacy group, backed by a Washington, D.C. law firm, sued state officials over a new law banning financial contributions from “foreign nationals” to support or oppose constitutional amendments. The group, Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, argued in a complaint filed in federal court Friday that House Bill 2106, which passed the state legislature in April and is set to go into effect July 1, is broad, vague, and unconstitutional.