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Life After Roe

In June 2022, the Supreme Court officially dismantled Roe v. Wade. These are the stories of what came next.

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We’re Just Human Incubators to Them

 Doctors have delivered Adriana Smith’s baby after keeping her alive on a ventilator for months due to Georgia’s abortion ban. By Andrea González-Ramírez
  • life after roe What It’s Like to Provide Abortions Later in Pregnancy Dr. Shelley Sella tackles the discomfort and misinformation around third-trimester abortions head-on in a compassionate memoir. By Andrea González-Ramírez
  • life after roe Find an Abortion An exhaustive guide to the clinics still open in each state, how to reach them, and the services they offer. By the Cut

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  1. Why Is Trump Asking a Judge to Toss an Abortion-Pill Case?The administration wants to dismiss a lawsuit that would restrict access to mifepristone. That does not mean it’ll defend the drug in the future.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  2. Locked in Shadows
    A Disturbing Advance in Fetal PersonhoodAuthorities arrested a Georgia woman they acknowledge had miscarried and brought charges over how she disposed of the remains.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Prosecutor Drops Charges Against Georgia Woman Who MiscarriedPolice had arrested the woman, who was found bleeding and unconscious, and charged her over how she disposed of the fetal remains.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  4. Demonstrators Holds Rally At U.S. Capitol In Protest Of The Senate's Obamacare Repeal Bill
    The Supreme Court Case That Could Gut Planned ParenthoodJustices will hear arguments on whether the nonprofit can be kicked out of state Medicaid programs, while Trump is yanking its federal funding.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  5. Abortion rights protesters heat up with church goers in NYC
    Planned Parenthood’s ‘Devastating’ Plan to Shutter in Manhattan“It just feels like we are waving a white flag.”
    By Susan Rinkunas
  6. Fetal Personhood Bills Are Flooding State LegislaturesRepublicans are throwing legislation that would define embryos and fetuses as people at the wall to see what sticks.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  7. Nurse holding her patients hand
    The Chilling Arrest of a Midwife Under Texas’s Abortion BanIt appears to be the first time since the overturn of Roe that someone has been arrested for allegedly providing abortion care.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Where the Conservative War on Abortion Pills Is HeadedState Republicans have already launched a number of under-the-radar attacks this year.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  9. Supreme Court Hears Idaho Abortion Law Challenge
    Rather Than Defend Abortion, Trump’s DOJ Would Let People DieThe administration is dropping a Biden-era lawsuit that sought to require hospitals to provide emergency abortion care.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  10. Abortion center in Mississippi permanently closes its doors
    Trump Teases a New Era of Anti-Abortion Violence“Somebody called and threatened to blow us up, and you are telling me that this isn’t worth prosecuting?”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Trump’s Sneaky Opening Attack on Abortion RightsIn the background of his anti-immigration orders and attacks on civil rights, the president and his allies are advancing their anti-abortion agenda.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  12. The U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case Over Emergency Abortion Care in Washington, DC
    Trump 2.0 Won’t Stop People From Telling Their Abortion StoriesWe Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman on the risks and rewards of sharing, plus how to protect yourself.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  13. Why Texas Is Suing an Abortion Provider From New YorkThe case could determine whether doctors can send abortion pills to out-of-state patients.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  14. Joe Biden
    What Can Biden Actually Do About Abortion Rights Before Leaving Office?He can throw up a few hurdles to slow down the next Trump administration’s plans to further restrict access.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  15. Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Abortion Drug Mifepristone
    What’s at Stake for Abortion Rights in Trump’s Second TermA national abortion ban, threats to birth control, and everything else that’s keeping advocates up at night.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  16. Where Voters Overturned Trump’s Abortion BansFor the first time since the end of Roe, some abortion ballot measures failed to pass, but there were also key victories.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Where Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot This ElectionVoters in ten states have the chance to amend their constitutions.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Trump Calls Himself the ‘Father of IVF’Despite needing a female senator to tell him how fertility treatments work.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  19. Abortion Pill Expected To Be Available in Australia Within Year
    Texas Women Beat Abortion-Pill Lawsuit From Friend’s Ex“This case was about using the legal system to harass us for helping our friend, and scare others out of doing the same.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  20. Storm Helene Causes Massive Flooding Across Swath Of Western North Carolina
    Hurricane Helene’s Devastating Impact on Abortion Seekers“You can’t go to a health-care appointment when your house has been washed away.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  21. Protesters Gather In Atlanta Rallying Against Georgia's New Abortion Law
    Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion BanThe law that killed Amber Thurman and Candi Miller will remain in effect as a legal challenge plays out.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  22. First Lady Melania Trump Meets With Teens To Discuss Youth Vaping
    Melania Trump Suddenly Wants to Talk About Abortion RightsReading between the lines of a reported excerpt from her new memoir.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  23. GOP Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Holds Town Hall in Warren, MI
    Trump’s National Abortion Ban DeceptionHe’s obfuscating his position on the issue, and the media is falling for it.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  24. What Could Kamala Harris Actually Do About Abortion As President?There’d be limits on her power to restore reproductive freedom.
    By Laura Bassett
  25. Planned Parenthood Rally To End 6-Week Abortion Ban Held In Orlando
    Abortion Wins Elections? I’m Not Sure After Visiting Florida.What I saw spending a weekend following “Yes on 4” canvassers in a bellwether county.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  26. Protests Break Out Across The U.S. As Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
    Yes, Abortion Bans Are Literally Killing WomenRepublicans continue to deny that restrictive laws harm patients. But a 28-year-old died as a direct result of Georgia’s ban, according to ProPublica.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Abortion Will Be Legal in North Dakota Once AgainA judge struck down the state’s trigger law, saying its constitution protects abortion care before fetal viability.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    An Abortion Provider Debunks Trump’s Debate Talking PointsHis inflammatory rhetoric hinges on voters’ unfamiliarity with abortion care later in pregnancy.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  29. The Fight for One of the Year’s Biggest Abortion-Rights Votes A measure that would lift Missouri’s ban will appear on the ballot despite the GOP’s efforts.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  30. The Power of Women’s Abortion and IVF Stories at the DNCThe convention’s unapologetic focus on the issue would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  31. She Lost a Fallopian Tube After a Hospital Denied Her AbortionKyleigh Thurman’s ectopic pregnancy ruptured after a Texas hospital allegedly refused to treat her.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  32. Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump Speaks To The Press In Palm Beach, Florida
    Does Trump Even Know What Mifepristone Is?He suggested he’s open to restricting abortion pills in a rambling press conference.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  33. Another Republican Tries to Convince Voters He’s an Abortion ModerateNorth Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial candidate is the latest to try to trick voters into thinking he wouldn’t support a total abortion ban.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Kamala Harris Isn’t Afraid to Campaign on AbortionShe came out swinging on the issue in her first week as a presidential candidate and re-energized reproductive-rights groups.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  35. Here’s a Refreshing Way to Think About Election DayReproductive-justice pioneer Loretta Ross on not waiting for politicians to save you.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  36. Supreme Court Abortion Protest
    The Supreme Court’s Idaho Abortion Ruling Is a Mixed BagThe decision allows emergency abortions to continue in the state but did not rule on the case’s merits, so the legal battle isn’t over.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  37. Texans Rally At State Capitol Against New Abortion Bill
    Texas Is Forcing Women to Give Birth to Babies That Won’t SurviveA spike in newborn and infant deaths after the state enacted SB8 was largely driven by congenital anomalies.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  38. 78 Patients and 10 Hours Inside an Abortion Clinic in the South“There’s a zombie-apocalypse mind-set in this building: We are going to survive.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  39. Appeals Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available, But With Restrictions
    Good News: The Supreme Court Won’t Restrict Abortion PillsThe justices unanimously rejected anti-abortion doctors’ challenge to the drug mifepristone.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  40. Center For Reproductive Rights Files Lawsuit On Behalf Of Texans Harmed By State's Abortion Ban
    Texas Court Rules Against Women Denied Emergency AbortionsThe decision didn’t even mention the 20 women who say they nearly died, fled the state, or carried nonviable pregnancies to term.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  41. Inside a women's centre in Phoenix as Arizona considers enforcing 1864 abortion law, USA - 12 Apr 2024
    Louisiana’s Alarming Push to Criminalize Abortion PillsLegislators passed a bill that would create a climate of fear around possessing abortion pills and delay life-saving pregnancy care.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  42. A Texas Man Wants His Ex Investigated for Getting an AbortionExperts say it’s a fear tactic meant to intimidate abortion seekers.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  43. Midsection of female patient waiting in hospital exam room
    Trump Would Let Republicans Track Your PregnancyThe former president told ‘Time’ he’s fine with states monitoring women’s bodies in whatever dystopian way they see fit if he’s elected this fall.
    By Laura Bassett
  44. Arizona's Supreme Court Revives 1864 Law Banning Abortions, Causing Backlash
    Arizona Has Repealed Its Civil War–Era Abortion BanBut the restrictions are still expected to take effect for a few months this summer.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  45. The Woman Who Got Your Best Friend PregnantTaking Charge of Your Fertility brought cycle-tracking to the masses. Thirty years later, the author still worries about readers getting it right.
    By Sara Harrison
  46. How Close to Death Must a Person Be to Get an Abortion?The Supreme Court will decide whether hospitals can turn away pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  47. Arizona’s Draconian Abortion Ban Belongs to TrumpThis is what leaving the issue up to the states looks like.
    By Laura Bassett
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    Arizona Supreme Court Brings Back 160-Year-Old Abortion BanAbortions will be outlawed except in cases where the pregnant person’s life is at risk.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Florida Clinics and Funds Prepare for ‘Catastrophic’ Abortion BanIt can cost an abortion fund around $1,100 to send a patient out of state. “That’s millions of dollars. We don’t have millions of dollars.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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    Florida Supreme Court Paves the Way for Six-Week Abortion BanThe court also ruled separately that a measure codifying abortion rights can appear on the ballot in the November election.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
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