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Left to right: Dr. Serina Floyd, obstetrician-gynecologist and chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.; Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.); Dr. Austin Dennard, patient plaintiff in the Zurawski v. Texas case; and writer Jessica Valenti participate in a briefing about the state of abortion rights in America, at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 17, 2024. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

BY LIVIA FOLLET and ROXANNE SZAL | Abortion is currently banned in 14 states and highly restricted in an additional 10, and the average American lives 86 miles from an abortion provider. This leaves many pregnant people with the complex task of traveling across state lines—spending substantial amounts of money and time—to receive essential medical care. 

Ahead of the Roe anniversary, a panel of Senate Democrats and activists discussed a range of issues related to abortion rights—including state abortion bans and their desire to pass the Women’s Protection Act to restore abortion rights nationwide.

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Hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators gather at Lafayette Park for the Annual Women’s March in front of the White House to mark the anniversary of the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade on January 20, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Rose Layden / Getty Images)

BY MORGAN CARMEN | Reproductive healthcare experts say the post-Dobbs period will feature tens of thousands of forced births purely because of clinic closures—many abortion seekers will be too far away from the ones that remain open. Access is further interrupted, they said, by court decisions so confusing that providers do not know if and when they can legally dispense abortion medication or intervene with abortion care to save lives.

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A woman votes in Somerville, Mass., on the evening of the 2022 midterm elections. (Carlin Stiehl / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

BY ROXANNE SZAL | Next year’s election will see many voters turn out who are motivated by abortion and equal rights for women, according to a new poll by Lake Research Partners for Ms. and the Feminist Majority Foundation, publisher of Ms.  The poll showed that abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) are strong voter turnout issues separately, but even more powerful when combined.

Candidates talking about abortion and the ERA together are particularly mobilizing for Democrat and Independent voters—especially Independent women, younger women, voters who support abortion rights, college-educated women, Latinas and Black voters, and voters ages 30-39. 

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Listen to United Bodies—a new podcast about the lived experience of health, from Ms. Studios, on Apple Podcasts + Spotify. 

More than 51 million people in the United States – more than 20 percent of adults – live with chronic pain, but 70 percent of pain sufferers are women. Women and nonbinary people, particularly women and nonbinary people of color, are treated poorly by the medical system. Our pain is ignored. Our needs are unmet. 

On the latest United Bodies, Samantha Reid joins host Kendall Ciesemier to talk about how our system isn’t set up to care about our pain—and how we can change it.

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