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Kellyn Nettles and Colleen McGrath hold up a sign during a rally to protest the closure of the last abortion clinic in Missouri on May 30, 2019 in St. Louis. Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, abortion is now completely banned in Missouri. (Jacob Moscovitch / Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER and JENIFER MCKENNA | The crisis pregnancy center industry targets women—especially low-income women, young women, and women of color—using deceptive ads to pose as medical clinics and obscure their anti-abortion mission.

Grassroots reproductive health advocates are taking action to counter CPCs’ disinformation and abuse by advocating for state and local laws to prohibit deceptive advertising, protect health data privacy, advance public education about CPCs, and create avenues for consumer complaints about their deceitful and dangerous practices.

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A still from It’s Only Life After All by Alexandria Bombach. (Jeremy Cowart / Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | One of the best things about director Alexandria Bombach’s documentary about folk rock duo The Indigo Girls, It’s Only Life After All, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is its easygoing intimacy. Singer-songwriters Amy Ray and Emily Saliers’ rapport, with both each other and the director, shines through a series of present-day interviews, concert footage, archival videos and recollections that foreground their music and their partnership over the last 40-plus years.

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BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: The state of representation in Congress; meet Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s State of the Union guest; the legacies of Black women leaders in law and politics; Stacey Abrams “will likely run again”; and more.

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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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