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Protesters hold a “die-in” outside the Supreme Court before oral arguments in Moyle v. United States on April 24, 2024, the case that challenges a federal law that requires hospitals to perform an emergency abortion when needed to resolve a patient’s medical emergency. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

BY SKYE PERRYMAN | We’ve come to the point in post-Dobbs America where the legal system, and the nation’s highest Court, are now entertaining questions about how long is too long for a woman to have to wait to receive emergency care when her organs—including her reproductive organs—are in danger.

Will women again be failed by this Court? Or will the justices finally be able to look at the devastation they have caused to women and families and not blink? 

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The proportion of patients traveling to other states to obtain abortion care has doubled in recent years, reaching nearly one in five in the first half of 2023, compared with one in 10 in 2020, according to the Guttmacher Institute. (Catherine McQueen / Getty Images)

BY SHEFALI LUTHRA | Healthcare providers aren’t allowed to tell law enforcement about a patient’s abortion if they received the procedure in a state where it is legal, it is protected by federal law, or it is permitted by state law, the Biden administration said Monday. The rule will take effect in 30 days, and it represents a meaningful shift.

But it’s unclear whether it will protect medical data for people who self-manage their abortions by receiving medication in the mail, often from a prescribing physician in a state with laws protecting reproductive rights.

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Incoming Columbine High School freshmen Ellie Fairweather (L) and Ava Kyle, both of Littleton, Colo., read quotes along a wall at the Columbine Memorial in Clement Park on April 20, 2024—the 25th anniversary of the school shooting where two male students killed 12 of their classmates, one teacher and injured many more on April 20, 1999. (Marc Piscotty / Getty Images)

BY ROB OKUN | Fortunately, there wasn’t a copycat mass shooting on Saturday to grotesquely mark the 25th anniversary of the Columbine massacre on April 20, 1999. But just as we can be certain there will be another solar eclipse, it’s only a matter of time before a hail of bullets will block out the sun for another community somewhere in America. What’s also true? Expect the shooter to be male, probably white.

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In this episode,  we’re joined by the indomitable Lizz Winstead with a live studio in Washington, D.C. She bares all as we talk about the new documentary featuring her and Abortion Access Front (AAF), No One Asked You.  From her childhood to her own abortion story,  she tells it all, including what led her to found AAF.

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