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Sep 10, 2024 | 
rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy |Thalia Charles
When Maleeha Aziz, deputy director of the abortion fund and reproductive justice organization Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund, needed an abortion when she was younger, she initially encountered a “crisis pregnancy center” (CPC), a fake clinic that tries to dissuade people from getting an abortion. “They sort of misled me and caused me trauma,” Aziz said.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thebaffler.com | Sydney Calkin |Thalia Charles |Rafia Zakaria |Arvin Alaigh
The people in this story are all anonymous. They must remain so because they are doing illegal things with abortion pills—at least according to police, prosecutors, and government agencies. Their opinion is the one that matters now, two years after Roe v. Wade was struck down, triggering a cascade of state-level abortion bans and restrictions. As abortion pills cross state and federal borders, they also cross conceptual boundaries, shifting in status between legal and illegal.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy |Thalia Charles
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, voters in several states have enshrined abortion rights into their state constitutions via ballot initiatives. In November, people in at least 11 more states may vote on abortion rights ballot measures.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy |Thalia Charles
Conservatives, not fully satisfied with criminalizing abortion and pregnancy outcomes across the country, are now attempting to prevent pregnant people from accessing information about abortion care and seeking abortions outside of states where it is banned.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Thalia Charles
Last August, a nurse practitioner in Brooklyn diagnosed me with acute colitis, likely caused by a ground turkey spaghetti Bolognese. The colitis caused me immense pain that kept me up at night. Vomiting, tired, and dehydrated, I missed work. Thankfully, the nurse practitioner prescribed me a strong antibiotic called ciprofloxacin. One of the side effects of ciprofloxacin, unbeknownst to me at the time, is pregnancy loss. I filled my ciprofloxacin prescription at my local Duane Reade without incident.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Adrian West |Thalia Charles
It started innocently enough, as a search for decent pastrami, an item not easily found in Western Europe. We were emerging from lockdown, and while my American passport had allowed me to travel back to the United States a few times for family reasons, everywhere in New York seemed closed, and I only passed through for a day or two anyhow on my way down South, where you could go out to eat, but, again, there was no decent pastrami.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
rewirenewsgroup.com | Natasha Roy |Thalia Charles
Three states recently passed laws banning nonconsensual pelvic exams, marking a victory for reproductive justice advocates. In Missouri, the law goes into effect today; Montana’s law was signed into law in April, and Colorado’s bill was signed in May. Pennsylvania and Ohio are exploring bans as well. Nonconsensual pelvic exams occur when doctors and medical students, typically at teaching hospitals, examine an unconscious or sedated patient’s cervix without informed consent.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Naomi LaChance |Jake Johnson |Thalia Charles
Two hundred members of Congress have expressed their backing of the impending UPS worker strike and have pledged not to support any potential effort by lawmakers to prevent the workers from striking. Lawmakers in the House and the Senate sent letters to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien and UPS CEO Carol Tomé this week stating their support for the workers, who are slated to go on strike as soon as August 1.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Jake Johnson |Sharon Zhang |Thalia Charles |Sasha Abramsky
The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled fresh draft guidelines that advocates praised as a long-overdue update to merger policies established during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, who helped usher in the current era of corporate consolidation.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
truthout.org | Thalia Charles |Tyler Walicek |Sam Knight |Derek Seidman
The expanded child tax credit, signed into law by President Joe Biden more than two years ago, provided families with children with monthly installments of $250 or $300, reduced rates of child poverty, and served as a lifeline for low-income families. The tax credit expired after the 2022 tax year, and efforts to revive it were unsuccessful. In its absence, local and state organizers and advocates are actively working to provide residents with financial assistance via guaranteed income programs.
