Nina Martin

Features Editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

@Reveal @MotherJones. Before: ProPublica, San Francisco magzine + too many others to name. Hit me up w/your ideas—the bigger the better

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How This State Supreme Court Ruling Could Set Up a Battle Over Comstock

Jan 20, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Nina Martin

Share The harder Texas has worked to ban abortion, the more New Mexico has done to welcome patients fleeing the state—and vice versa. In the months after the Dobbs decision, as New Mexico became one of the most important reproductive health havens in the US, anti-abortion activists in Texas struck back by lobbying conservative communities in the state to pass local ordinances banning abortions within their jurisdictions.
What People Get Wrong About Christian Women Who Voted for Trump

Jan 6, 2025 | flipboard.com | Nina Martin

11 hours agoTwo prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that spares them from the death chamber — have taken an unusual stance: They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action. Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis, …
Swing States of Anxiety

Oct 26, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Nina Martin

Share After Joe Biden’s debate debacle and Donald Trump’s near-assassination, the 2024 election looked like it could be a GOP blowout. Then Biden dropped out, Kamala Harris stepped up, the Democrats raised $1 billion-plus, the Republicans went full fascist … And here we are, a week before what feels like (another) Most Momentous Election of Our Lifetimes , and—if you believe the polls —no one has a clue who will win.
How swing states are still grappling with the Big Lie, and an exclusive Kamala Harris interview

Oct 26, 2024 | revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Michael I Schiller |Michael Montgomery |Nina Martin

In 2020, as elections officials counted votes in Phoenix, protesters swarmed outside the Maricopa County election center. Many held flags; some had AR-15s. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was there yelling into a bullhorn, “Burn in hell, Joe Biden.” They claimed the election was stolen. Since then, dozens of court cases across the country have all found no evidence of widespread fraud.
California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care

Oct 1, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Nina Martin

Share Many Californians are proud of their state’s strong protections for abortion and reproductive rights—safeguards that have become even more important in the post– Roe v. Wade era. But a new lawsuit filed Monday by Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office highlights the risks that blue states face from a vital sector of the health care system that has long considered itself exempt from laws protecting abortion access: Catholic hospitals.
Report: Florida’s Six-Week Ban Caused the Number of Abortions to Plummet

Sep 13, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Nina Martin

Share Before Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, abortions in Florida were available until 24 weeks of pregnancy ; soon afterward, a 15-week ban became law. Still, Florida remained an essential abortion haven for the Southeast. Then, on May 1, a six-week ban took effect, and the impact was immediate and drastic—and not just in the state, new data from the Guttmacher Institute shows.
Report: Florida’s six-week ban caused the number of abortions to plummet

Sep 12, 2024 | motherjones.com | Nina Martin

Before Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, abortions in Florida were available until 24 weeks of pregnancy; soon afterward, a 15-week ban became law. Still, Florida remained an essential abortion haven for the Southeast. Then, on May 1, a six-week ban took effect, and the impact was immediate and drastic—and not just in the state, new data from the Guttmacher Institute shows.
She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

Sep 7, 2024 | revealnews.org | Shoshana Walter |Jenny Casas |Nina Martin |Nikki Frick

Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” chopped salad kit with poppy seeds. When she went to the hospital to give birth the next day, she tested positive for opiates. Horton told doctors that it must have been the poppy seeds, but she couldn’t convince them it was true. She was reported to child welfare authorities, and a judge removed Horton’s newborn from her care.
Prescribed addiction-treatment medications taken by pregnant women are triggering child welfare investigations

Aug 30, 2024 | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Melissa Lewis |Nina Martin |Nikki Frick

Jade Dass was taking medication to treat her addiction to opioids before she became pregnant. Scientific studies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that taking addiction-treatment medications during pregnancy leads to the best outcomes for both mothers and babies. But after Dass delivered a healthy daughter, the hospital reported her to the Arizona Department of Child Safety.
The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good

Jul 9, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Nina Martin

This article was originally published on Mother Jones. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision, as dozens of abortion clinics shut down in states with total or near-total abortion bans, reproductive justice advocates warned that the closures wouldn’t just affect patients seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Family planning clinics have historically provided more than abortion services, often offering basic gynecological health care for women.