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An abortion rights demonstrator outside of the Harris County Courthouse during the Women’s Wave march in Houston, on Oct. 8, 2022. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Images)

BY ELEANOR KLIBANOFF | Texas’ conflicting and confusing laws on abortion have already caused catastrophic problems for pregnancy care.

“It was just a matter of time before the baby died, or maybe I’d have to go through the trauma of carrying to term knowing I wasn’t bringing a baby home,” said 27-year-old Lauren Hall, who traveled to Seattle all the way from Texas to have an abortion. “I couldn’t do that.”

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Graduates at the University of Maryland in May 2014. (Maryland GovPics / Wikimedia Commons)

BY ROXY SZAL | The Biden administration announced it would cancel significant amounts of student debt for millions of Americans, marking the largest discharge of education debt in U.S. history.

The application is officially live in a beta testing period, as of early October. Applications will not be processed until the site is officially live later this month, but loan-holders who apply during this beta period will not need to do so again. The final deadline to complete it is over a year away—Dec. 31, 2023—but the Biden administration has advised applicants to apply by Nov. 15 of this year to receive forgiveness by Dec. 31, 2022, when the student loan repayment pause will end.

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BY MS. EDITORS | Learn everything you ever wanted to know about birth control, including things your doctor might not even know.

This free conversation will feature Dr. Sophia Yen, CEO and co-founder of Pandia Health, the only women-founded and women-led birth control delivery and telemedicine company. Yen will outline everything she thinks we need to know about birth control, emergency contraception, periods, abortions pills and more. (This event is back by popular demand!)

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 Lawyer and writer Dahlia Lithwick returns to the show for an intimate conversation with Dr. Goodwin about the Supreme Court, her career, and new book, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America. They dive deep about the women saving America and why Dahlia Lithwick says she “quit the Court” after the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. 

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