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What I Look for in Abortion Criminalization Coverage
I tease out what I look for in stories about pregnancy criminalization, and talk about how I identify the coverage I’m most comfortable sharing with my readers.
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A Sand Castle for the Space Man
For the last three years, I’ve published a short Halloween story for my newsletter readers. This year’s story takes place in on South Padre Island, Texas — one of my favorite places on earth.
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GOP Picks Man Who Blamed School Shootings on Abortion As New House Speaker
When Republicans tell you they are only looking for a little consensus and would be perfectly happy with a nationwide 15-week abortion ban, will you take them at their word, or will you notice that the man they literally just elected House Speaker is about as craven as anti-abortion a fucko as anyone who has…
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Abortion ‘Travel Bans’ Foment Fear and Fuel Misogynist Vigilante Fantasies
The anti-abortion lobby is pushing mostly symbolic, privately enforced local ordinances against abortion. But that doesn’t mean they’re not working as intended.
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Domestic Violence Advocates See ‘Reproductive Coercion’ Calls Double Post-Roe
A thorough, compassionate, and refreshing profile of abortion provider Dr. Aaron Campbell, plus: a roundup of some of the best coverage of the Ohio Issue 1 vote.
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The A-la-Carte-ification of News
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the actual nitty-gritty of what it means to produce independent journalism in the post-Twitter world — not the big picture stuff, the what-does-it-all-mean of it all, but just the actual grind of writing and promoting and writing and promoting and writing and promoting. The endless quest for eyeballs.
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Protected: Only Nice Things Monthly, Time Travel To September 2023 Edition
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Ohioans Head to the Polls on ‘Issue 1’ Abortion Rights Amendment (🗳️Vote Yes!🗳️)
The big takeaway: Early voting has begun in Ohio on the repro rights constitutional amendment, Issue 1. Vote yes! Plus: the Ninth Circuit says it’ll take another look at protections for OB-GYNs in Idaho.
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Anti-Abortion Politicians in Idaho Reject Support for Pregnancy and Birth
The big takeaway: Because banning abortion is not actually about saving ~ teh baybeez ~ or ensuring people have healthy pregnancies and families, abortion bans do not generally result in better care and support for pregnant people and their communities. ProPublica looks at how this has played out in Idaho, while three other pieces in…
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Texas Anti-Abortion Lawyer Demands Names of Abortion Funders for ‘Hit List’
The big takeaway: The ultimate goal of the anti-abortion movement is to ban all abortion and criminalize people who have abortions, people who provide abortions, and people who support abortions. No matter what Nikki Haley or some other dippy Republican trying to be president says at a brain-numbing debate about 15-week bans or so-called “compromise,”…
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