by Lomi Kriel and Jessica Priest ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Texas leaders have shown a decades long antipathy toward Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program that covers millions of low-income and vulnerable residents. They declined additional federal money that, under the Affordable Care Act, would have allowed Medicaid to offer health care coverage to more low-income families. The state was among…
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Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.
After Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers are working to overturn it. by Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One month after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion, Republican lawmakers in the deeply red state are already working to overturn it — or at least undermine it. One measure…
Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women
Texas, state lawmakers filed bills to create new exceptions to the state’s strict abortion laws broadening doctors’ ability to treat patients. by Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Ziva Branstetter ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Life of the Mother:How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series Weeks after ProPublica reported on the deaths of two pregnant women…
Georgia Judge Lifts Six-Week Abortion Ban After Deaths of Two Women Who Couldn’t Access Care
by Ziva Branstetter ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Life of the Mother:How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series Women in Georgia can once again legally obtain abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, following a judge’s strongly worded order this week tossing the state’s ban. While Gov. Brian Kemp spoke out against the decision and Georgia’s attorney general…
Two pregnant Texas women died, doctors delayed emergency care.
A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital by Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Life of the Mother:How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3,…
The Fight for Women’s Rights is a Fight Against Authoritarianism
Abortio rights activists celebrate in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia, February 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo / Fernando Vergara The Fight for Women’s Rights is a Fight Against Authoritarianism. We know progress is never easy, defense of human rights is a difficult task. We know progress is never linear, and defense of human rights can be a difficult task. Women’s rights gains, however, are particularly fragile. Often disguised in concepts that are presented as harmless, such…