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BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Last November, Ms. partnered with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law to create a ground-breaking microsite: “Abortion Is Essential to Democracy.” Join us tomorrow for a special event streaming from NPR’s studio in New York City.

Panelists will dig deep on key questions:

• How should we consid­er parallel affronts to participation and representation—the wave of voting restrictions and outsize role of big money in polit­ics?
• Can we look to state courts to provide new avenues in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling?
• What are the legal and soci­etal impacts of crim­in­al­iz­ing preg­nancy and abor­tion, espe­cially on communit­ies of color?

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BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Few details have emerged about what happened leading up to the arrest of 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera. But the criminalization of pregnant women has a long history in Texas.

“Prosecutors who bring cases like this are trying to groom people in the United States to think of those who have abortions as criminals,” said Lynn Paltrow, executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. “That stigma, eventually, is likely to stick and results in efforts to throw them in jail.”

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BY ARGHAVAN SALLES, MORGAN S. LEVY and VINEET ARORA | Being alive in 2022 means facing never-ending attacks on human rights. With the most conservative Supreme Court since the 1930s, there now seems to be little standing between those of us with a cervix and the autonomy over our own bodies. 

Abortion is personal for physicians and healthcare workers, not just professional—we need to help protect abortion access.

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Last month, we tuned in to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's hearings in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. How did a process meant to be rigorous, but respectful and fair turn into days of badgering, bullying, and a litmus test on religion? Join us to break down the events leading up to her recent confirmation with leading legal experts.

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