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Ob-gyn Dr. Jennifer Lincoln joins doctors from across the U.S. at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 3, 2022, to demand an end to the criminalization of providers who perform abortions. (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for Doctors for Abortion Action)

BY ELIZABETH NASH | The overwhelming focus on whether bans have exceptions and whether people can get abortions in extreme situations distorts our perception of what is actually happening in states that ban abortion—which is that abortion bans are extreme and harmful because they ban abortion, period. 

As the focus shifts to the 2023 state legislative sessions, where we expect lawmakers to further restrict abortion care, correcting public narratives about abortion bans is an urgent priority. To do that, we need to reframe how we discuss exceptions in three critical ways: Exceptions are designed to be unworkable. Focusing on exceptions ignores the vast majority of people harmed by abortion bans. And the focus on exceptions creates a false hierarchy of who is deserving of care.

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Advocates, legislators and pregnant workers rally on Capitol Hill in support of The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act on Dec. 1, 2022. The PWFA would close a legal loophole in the landmark Pregnancy Discrimination Act by ensuring all employers provide pregnant and postpartum workers with modest accommodations on the job. (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for A Better Balance)

BY MIQUEL DAVIES and DR. SMITA CARROLL | The Senate has an important and quickly narrowing opportunity to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) before the end of this Congress.

It has been the ongoing work of advocates and lawmakers to change our laws, policy and culture to better care for people who are pregnant. Passage of PWFA would be an important and necessary first step.

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Matilda the Musical stars Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull. (Dan Smith / Netflix)

BY MELISSA L. BREGER | While the much-anticipated film adaptation of Matilda, starring Emma Thompson as Trunchbull, will be sure to delight filmgoers of all ages this holiday season, the unsettling truth is that approximately 70,000 K-12 public school students are subject to corporal punishment annually.

It’s time that our communities and laws take aggressive steps to not just outlaw this practice—but to change the hearts and minds of both teachers and parents by promoting humane and effective practices that lead to long-term, positive changes in behavior.

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Before Roe v. Wade, if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?

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