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[[link removed]] North Carolina State Legislature Advances New Restrictions on Voting [[link removed]]
Jaharra Anglin Stubbs | August 14
The North Carolina State Legislature is advancing a sweeping overhaul of the state’s election laws that would change how early voting, ballot challenges, voter registration, and election audits are conducted. H.B. 958 [[link removed]] passed the NC House 66-47 on June 30 and the Senate 28-13 on July 28, with Republicans voting unanimously in favor of the Senate version.
Among its provisions, H.B. 958 [[link removed]] would:
* Shorten the early voting period from 17 days to 10 days for primaries, runoffs, and special elections.
* Change the timeline for challenging ballots cast during early voting and by mail, allowing some challenges to be filed after Election Day.
* Expand the state’s authority to conduct post-election audits.
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[[link removed]] Massachusetts Expands Later Term Abortion Access [[link removed]]
Jaharra Anglin Stubbs | August 14
Early Monday morning on August 10, 2026, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care [[link removed]]
Act [[link removed]] into law, expanding access to abortion later in pregnancy and removing the state’s previous 24-week gestational limit [[link removed]] . Under the new law, healthcare providers can determine whether abortion care is medically appropriate based on their professional judgment [[link removed]] .
Previously, Massachusetts law generally limited abortion access to the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, creating a significant barrier for those seeking later-stage care. After that point, physicians could provide abortion care only under limited circumstances [[link removed]] , including when necessary to preserve a patient’s life or physical or mental health, in cases of a lethal fetal diagnosis, or when the fetus was unlikely to survive outside the uterus.
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[[link removed]] The U.S. Maternal Health Crisis Is Preventable. Congress Must Act on the Momnibus [[link removed]]
Giovanna DeStefanis | August 14
As the United States continues to face a maternal health crisis, health care providers, advocates, and lawmakers are calling on Congress to pass legislation aimed at
improving maternal health outcomes and expanding access to maternity care.
On Thursday, August 6, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and health care providers joined Protect Our Care [[link removed]] for a virtual press conference [[link removed]] focused on the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act [[link removed]] . The event came as Republican-backed cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs threaten to make maternity care more difficult to access for millions of people.
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