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A woman holds a sign in support of abortion rights at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 21, 2023. Later that day, the Court preserved access—for now—to mifepristone, a key drug taken to terminate early pregnancies, its first major abortion-related decision since overturning Roe v. Wade‘s constitutional guarantee of abortion rights last year. (Olivier Douilery / AFP via Getty Images)

BY JILL FILIPOVIC | Criminalizing abortion makes pregnancy more dangerous and renders doctors impotent to treat pregnant women fully and appropriately.

Pregnancy has long been one of the more dangerous things a woman can do. It is not convenient for abortion opponents, but the truth is that pregnancies go wrong, and sometimes they threaten women’s lives and our health. Even when everything goes right, pregnancies are tremendously stressful events on the body; they leave their mark, and they cause permanent changes (and often permanent injuries). It is unreasonable and unconscionable for the state to force this on women.

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“This is the first lawsuit in which individual women have sued a state for the harm that they endured because abortion care has been criminalized in the wake of Roe’s reversal,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. (Roxy Szal)

BY ROXY SZAL | Eight additional women came forward to join a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) against the state of Texas, for a new total of 15 plaintiffs: 13 women, plus two ob-gyns. All 13 women on the lawsuit were denied abortions in Texas despite dangerous pregnancy complications.

“It is outrageous that I was forced to get sicker and sicker before I could get the medical care I needed,” said Elizabeth Weller, one of the new plaintiffs in the case, who said she faced two options during her pregnancy due to the state’s total ban on abortion: “Stay in the hospital and wait for my baby to die … or go home and wait for my own demise.”

The lawsuit also requests a temporary injunction, which would block Texas’ abortion bans as they apply to pregnancy complications while the case proceeds. Since CRR first filed the lawsuit in March, Texas lawmakers have not moved forward on making any changes to the existing total abortion ban in the state.

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Hundreds of 1199 SEIU members march to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office on March 29, 2023, to protest proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. (Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)

BY NICOLE JORWIC | Medicaid is so much more than the talking points or media coverage on the debt ceiling. Members of Congress know it too—they know that disabled people, older adults, care workers and family caregivers would suffer if Medicaid was cut, or work requirements were enforced.

We need our elected officials to fight for us and support their constituents who rely on Medicaid.

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