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Sen. Josh Hawley, flanked by his wife Erin Hawley, is sworn in by then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 3, 2019. The Hawleys have deep ties to several anti-abortion groups, who have their sights set on limiting access to abortion pills. (Alex Edelman / AFP via Getty Images)

BY ANSEV DEMIRHAN | In November, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)—which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBTQ hate group—filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the FDA’s approval of the medication mifepristone.

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A woman hangs clothes at the Pan de Vida shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 29, 2022. She and other migrants wait for an opportunity to cross into the U.S. and request political asylum. (Christian Torres/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

BY ZOHA SIDDIQUI and JAHNAVI PRABHALA | As asylum claims mount and U.S. immigration enforcement struggle to process them, border communities will remain overcrowded and detention centers will quickly fill up. Without deliberate humanitarian intervention, displaced Venezuelans at the U.S.-Mexico border will continue to suffer in inhumane conditions.

What can’t be overstated is the degree to which women and girls bear the brunt of this suffering.

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Wunmi Mosaku as Sophie, Anna Kendrick as Alice, and Kaniehtiio Horn as Tess in Alice, Darling. (Courtesy of Lionsgate)

BY AMY POLACKO | “He doesn’t hurt me or anything.”

If there’s one line that sums up Alice, Darling—and every psychological abuse victim’s inner chaos—it’s this one.

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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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