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Abortion rights activists at the Women’s March on Oct. 8, 2022 in Los Angeles. (Sarah Morris / Getty Images)

BY LYNN GREENKY | Just days before the Dobbs decision was delivered, the National Right to Life Committee sent a nationwide memo outlining model legislation for a post-Roe United States. The legislation is designed to criminalize all aspects of abortion care from the moment of conception until birth.

The NRLC and its allies have chosen to ignore the right to opine, express and debate enshrined in the protective words of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.”

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A clinic escort outside Planned Parenthood’s Carol Whitehill Moses Center, a clinic in D.C. that provides abortions, as well as other types of reproductive care. Despite best efforts, up to 4,000 crisis pregnancy centers, or fake abortion clinics, still exist in the U.S. today. (Robin Marty)

BY CYNTHIA PLOTCH | In the 1980s, my mom went undercover for Planned Parenthood to expose crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) that masqueraded as abortion clinics. Despite my mother’s best efforts, up to 4,000 CPCs still exist in the U.S. today.

Crisis pregnancy centers are tools in the war on women, and they should not exist. They certainly shouldn’t have federal funding. 

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“Writing for me is an introspective and calculated process, which has given me comfort,” said Jessica Kim. “I could say whatever I wanted and knew there wasn’t a fear of being criticized or demeaned.” (Travis Auclair)

BY SANYA TINAIKAR | National Youth Poet Laureate Finalist Jessica Kim wasn’t always a writer—in fact, she did not start writing until three years ago, when the pandemic seemed to shear all facets of normalcy.

Founder and editor-in-chief of The Lumiere Review and author of L(eye)ght, Kim never thought of poetry as something that could exist anywhere except in her own headspace. “Finding something that clicks with you and only you and not someone who would judge or review your work is extremely important in viewing yourself not only as a writer but as a very being.”

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