1. We have secure ways to speak to us, and we honor agreements to not name sources in our stories. Only because of the courage of our anonymous sources does the public know about the preventable nature of the deaths related to abortion access that we exposed in Georgia.

2. We respect families. When reporter Kavitha Surana began talking with members of Amber Thurman’s family, they did not feel ready to grapple with her loss. It took a year before they decided they were ready to discuss her death.