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Risk of gender-based violence increases during natural disasters like Hurricane Ida. Better preparation is key
Disasters like Ida increase the risk of sexual, domestic and gender-based violence, which disproportionately affects women, girls and LGBTQ+ people.
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Black women’s unemployment is up as hospitality and retail stopped adding jobs in August
Growth in the industries that had helped women regain jobs in the labor force this year ground to a halt in August, as the spread of the Delta variant drove business closures.
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Inside the Republican strategy for rolling out abortion bans in more states
Abortion opponents say they expect Republican-led states to copy Texas’ six-week abortion ban, which so far has withstood legal challenges.
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Criminal convictions for abortion, miscarriage? Texas abortion ban previews life without Roe v. Wade
Defense attorneys say there’s a history of criminal convictions over abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth that will only be exacerbated if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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Advocates fear Texas abortion ban could impact LGBTQ+ health care
Planned Parenthoods have long provided hormones, cancer screenings and some of the only gender-affirming care in parts of Texas. If they close, LGBTQ+ people could have few options.
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The Supreme Court refused to block Texas’ abortion ban. Sonia Sotomayor says majority ‘opted to bury their heads in the sand’
In separate dissents, Justices Sotomayor and Elena Kagan used strong language to decry 5-4 Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’ six-week abortion ban to continue.
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As abortion ban goes into effect, Texas poised to double down with separate restrictions on abortion-inducing medications
The bill was finalized hours before a law banning nearly all abortions in the state went into effect.
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Texas patients may have to travel hundreds of miles for abortion access, out-of-state clinics brace for surge
Texas-based patients put pressure on abortion clinics in other states — and with it demands on abortion funds.
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67 abortions in 17 hours: Inside a Texas clinic’s race to beat new six-week abortion ban
At Whole Woman’s Health in Fort Worth, it was a race to perform as many abortions as possible until midnight, when a new Texas ban on the procedure became law.
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'We are always excluded': Kids with undocumented parents were supposed to get the child tax credit. Many still haven’t.
Families that include undocumented immigrants are reporting not receiving the child tax credit, even after the law was changed to make them eligible for the first time.