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A federal jury convicted six defendants of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive healthcare clinic in Mt. Juliet, Tenn., on March 5, 2021. Dennis Green of Life and Liberty Ministries live-streamed the invasion on Facebook. (Dennis Green / Facebook)

BY EMILIA DOMINGUEZ | On Tuesday, Jan. 30, a federal jury in Nashville found six defendants guilty of conspiring to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blockading a Nashville-area clinic and intimidating patients and clinic employees.

In just two hours, a jury selected from Tennessee—the heart of the Bible Belt—returned a verdict against a group of extremists associated with Operation Save America, a national anti-abortion group, for obstructing the employee and patient entrances of carafem abortion clinic for almost three hours on March 5, 2021.

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Taylor Swift at M&T Bank Stadium on Jan. 28, 2024, in Baltimore, Md. (Patrick Smith / Getty Images)

BY KRISTIN O'DONOGHUE | A few days ago, TIME’s Person of the Year was the victim of a deepfake pornographic attack.

Swift likely experienced the same nauseating feeling that many other women did when she saw her face plastered on nude bodies and virtually defiled by the public. And Swift’s lawyers will struggle to find satisfactory legal recourse. Taylor Swift was the victim of our lawless internet, where platforms can entirely evade a duty of care to their users. So were countless women before her.

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A rally for reproductive rights at the Texas Capitol on May 14, 2022, in Austin, the day of the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson. (Montinique Monroe / Getty Images)

BY ELEANOR KLIBANOFF | More Texas women had babies after the state banned nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, leading the state’s fertility rate to increase for the first time since 2014. The 2022 fertility data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzed by the University of Houston, offers the first concrete look at how many more women ended up carrying pregnancies to term as a result of the 2021 law.

This fertility data offers the first accounting of how many of those pregnancies were actually carried to term and delivered in Texas. And it confirms advocates’ predictions that the impact of these abortion bans would not be felt evenly across all communities.

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Over the past several years, we’ve made significant progress in destigmatizing mental health care. However, this de-stigmatization hasn’t reached all kinds of mental illness or all kinds of people who struggle with their mental health. Writer, researcher, and poet, Krista L.R. Cezair, and writer, activist and educator, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, join us to discuss the criminalization of mental illness on the latest UNITED BODIES. 

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