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Activists participate in the Women’s March in Seattle on Oct. 8, 2022. (Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | Employers around the country announced that they would assist their employees to travel out of state to access abortion healthcare. But a Trump-appointed member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is working from inside the civil rights agency to attack these employer benefits, claiming they are favoring workers seeking abortions while discriminating against pregnant workers and disabled workers.

This attempt to redirect the government’s limited civil rights resources to attacking women’s rights is evidence of the continuing harms caused by the Trump administration to women.

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Attendees of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2022. Thousands gathered across the country to rally for reproductive rights, one month before the midterm elections. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)

BY JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF and MELISSA MURRAY | We have been left all alone, our bodies overlooked by the law and undermined by the courts. We’re left, quite literally, to save our own lives. But perhaps one silver lining of the overturning of Roe v. Wade has been creating space for women to openly and deliberately trace the arc of their reproductive lives—in public—from menstruation to menopause.

As advocates, scholars and providers now work to reimagine and rebuild what meaningful reproductive care looks like in this country, we have an opportunity to be more holistic in addressing the full continuum of women’s reproductive lives. Private sector interventions and public policy solutions must reflect those intersections. Period. Full stop. 

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A picture of a deceased woman, Agnieszka, who died as a result of Poland’s strict abortion law, is held during a protest in Krakow on Jan. 26, 2022.—where abortion is illegal and restrictions continue to tighten. Regressive abortion laws in both Poland and U.S. go against global trends. (Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

BY PHOEBE KOLBERT, MICHELLE MOULTON and CLIO MORRISON | "I’m now in my 80s, yet that day remains vivid in my mind. The decision to overturn Roe brought back all the terrifying details of that day. I survived and was able to have a family when I chose to.” 
 
‘Our Abortion Stories’ chronicles readers’ experiences of abortion pre- and post Roe. Abortions are sought by a wide range of people, for many different reasons. There is no single story. (Share your abortion story by emailing [email protected].)

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