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BY CARRIE N. BAKER and JULIET SCHULMAN-HALL | Organizations like SPARK, ReproAction and Abortion Access Front are exposing the deceptive tactics of fake abortion clinics and organizing to stop them from harming women.

“My best friend when she was pregnant, she was taken to a crisis pregnancy center. And while she was there, they shamed her. They made her feel like if she had an abortion she was just this terrible person. It was very traumatizing for her. It is infuriating. It’s just really, really hard to think about.”

BY CRAIG LASHER | On the evening of July 28, the House of Representatives adopted a State Department, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2022 that includes a multitude of funding and policy provisions that would be tremendous advancements for global sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) if enacted into law.
 
“For women and their families to be safe, for communities to be prosperous, for the world to be peaceful, women must succeed. And that means they have to be healthy, free from sexual violence, and free to make their own personal decisions about whether and when to become a parent.”

BY KATE ELIZABETH QUERAM | Community colleges across the country are leveraging federal coronavirus relief dollars to forgive student debt accrued during the pandemic—a move some administrators hope will stanch continuing enrollment declines at the two-year institutions.