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Clinic escorts stand in front of the EMW Womens Surgical Center to protect patients from anti-abortion demonstrators on May 8, 2021—Mother’s Day—in Louisville, Ky. As a result of a recent state law, the two remaining abortion clinics in the state, Planned Parenthood and EMW, ceased offering abortion services. (Jon Cherry / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | On April 13, the Kentucky legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear to pass a law banning abortion after 15 weeks and placing restrictions on earlier abortions that are currently impossible to meet. As a result, the two remaining abortion clinics in the state—Planned Parenthood and EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville—ceased offering abortion services on Thursday.

Planned Parenthood and EMW are currently working with clinics beyond Kentucky to direct patients out of state for care. In addition, the organization Plan C offers detailed information on their website about how people in Kentucky are finding abortion pills outside of the formal medical system. 

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BY MARGARET PRESCOD and PHOEBE JONES | Tax Day offers a painful reminder for many parents of the short-lived expanded child tax credit (CTC). This relief from financial distress has been blocked by Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and every Republican in their refusal to pass the Build Back Better Act.

If the CTC was extended, the poverty rate among Black children could have been reduced by more than 50 percent. Manchin has been demanding “work requirements” for qualification—but every mother is a working mother, and every mother knows that.

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BY AMY POLACKO | In the case of New York City restaurateur Sarma Melngailis, the tactics allegedly used by her “Bad Vegan” husband are no joke—and more states across the country are recognizing “coercive control” under domestic violence law.

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