I wrote a essay about the grim way being a mom in America is depicted today, and how women weighing parenthood struggle to absorb all these chilling warnings, statistics, and cautionary tales. It’s an essay about dread, but also hope and maybe change. www.vox.com/features/239...

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“The number of weeks is immaterial, because it’s still fundamentally politicians deciding.” That, at its core, explains why Republicans’ 15-week campaign fell flat in VA. Most voters don’t support abortion restrictions. And they don’t trust the GOP on the issue.

Virginia Republicans embraced a 15-week abortion ban — and then lost

Tuesday’s election results in Virginia are a rebuke to what anti-abortion advocates and Republican politicians hoped was a limit that a broad swath of voters could get behind.

An Arizona Supreme Court justice said Planned Parenthood is “responsible for the greatest genocide known to man.” In December, he’ll hear arguments over whether the state should reinstate its near-total abortion ban. Planned Parenthood is a party to the case. 19thnews.org/2023/10/ariz...

An Arizona Supreme Court justice openly opposes abortion. He’ll hear a case deciding its legality ...

Justice Bill Montgomery blamed Planned Parenthood — which is suing the state over its abortion ban — for “the greatest genocide known to man.”

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A very surreal thing to write: my book will publish this summer and is now available for pre-order! More TK, but I’m so excited for everyone to meet the brave people who shared their stories of seeking health care in post-Dobbs America. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1144121948

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After I read this I immediately messaged @shefali.bsky.social19thnews.org/2023/09/poll...

Women and nonbinary people say doctors won’t stop talking about their weight

“It seemed like no matter what I went in for, it was, ‘Oh you're heavy,”’ said one respondent to the 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll.

Abortion is banned after six weeks of pregnancy in South Carolina, effective immediately. The decision further erodes abortion access in the South. A lot has changed since January, when a similar ban was declared unconstitutional. More from @shefali.bsky.social19thnews.org/2023/08/sout...

Abortion is banned after six weeks of pregnancy in South Carolina

The state’s Supreme Court upheld the new law, despite declaring a nearly-identical ban unconstitutional this past January. South Carolina was the last state in the South to allow abortion past 15 we...