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BY JACKSON KATZ | "One potentially positive outcome of the otherwise onerous and degrading moment of political theater that was the first Trump-Biden debate is that it made even more visible the ways in which Trump relies on his caricatured performance of aggressive white masculinity to solidify support among his largely (but not exclusively) white male base."

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | For the first time, a U.S.-based pharmacy is distributing abortion pills directly to patients by mail—now legal because of a recent federal court ruling.

BY BHAVIK KUMAR & AMANDA BEATRIZ WILLIAMS | For 44 years, the Hyde Amendment—a racist and discriminatory barrier to reproductive health care access—has banned Medicaid coverage of abortion care. In Texas, it compounds upon myriad additional barriers—including a ban on private insurance coverage of abortion, mandatory delay periods, forced ultrasounds, and medically inaccurate and biased counseling.