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Daring to Remember: My Illegal Abortion Gave Me My Life Back

PUBLISHED 7/4/2018 by Catherine A.

The gynecologist who examined me was unhelpful, referring obliquely to “some doctor someplace in Pennsylvania.” But that was all she could offer me. This was 1966. Abortion was illegal.

Daring to Remember: Ms. Co-Founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin Looks Back on Illegal Abortions Before Roe

PUBLISHED 7/3/2018 by Amy DePoy

“I would have killed myself. This isn’t hyperbole. If I couldn’t have had an abortion at 18, I would have killed myself—because I couldn’t see how I could possibly live my life.”

Daring to Remember: When Ann Called Jane

PUBLISHED 7/3/2018 by Amy DePoy

In the years before Roe, the women of the Jane Collective took the fight for abortion access into their own hands—literally.

The American Medical Association Just Elected Its First African American Woman President

PUBLISHED 7/2/2018 by Emma Encinas

MD Patrice A. Harris, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, was elected by the House of Delegates during the annual AMA meeting on June 12. She will begin her presidency next summer.

What Abortion Access Looks Like Without Roe: A State-by-State Breakdown

PUBLISHED 7/2/2018 by Hope Lenamon

Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is retiring—leaving the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade in imminent danger. Should the next Court overturn it, women in over half of the country could lose access to safe and legal abortion overnight.

Reproductive Rights Activists Aren’t Backing Down After NIFLA

PUBLISHED 6/29/2018 by Carmiya Baskin

Activists took to the streets Tuesday in protest of the Supreme Court’s ruling in NIFLA v. Becerra, which effectively gave the often religiously-affiliated anti-abortion fake clinics permission to continue manipulating and deceiving patients.

Time’s Up for Sexually Abusive Ob-Gyns: ‘Robert Hadden Was a Predator in a White Coat’

PUBLISHED 6/29/2018 by Marissa Hoechstetter and Carrie N. Baker

On Jan. 24, 2023, Robert Hadden was found guilty of sex trafficking. Prosecutors were seeking federal charges, arguing Hadden enticed women to cross state lines so he could sexually abuse them.

I know how it feels to realize that a doctor sexually abuse. Hadden assaulted me on at least two occasions, including when I was pregnant.

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Daring to Remember: My Illegal Abortion Gave Me My Life Back

Daring to Remember: Ms. Co-Founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin Looks Back on Illegal Abortions Before Roe

Daring to Remember: When Ann Called Jane

The American Medical Association Just Elected Its First African American Woman President

What Abortion Access Looks Like Without Roe: A State-by-State Breakdown

Reproductive Rights Activists Aren’t Backing Down After NIFLA

Time’s Up for Sexually Abusive Ob-Gyns: ‘Robert Hadden Was a Predator in a White Coat’

Healthcare Providers and Reproductive Justice Advocates are Challenging Texas’ Anti-Abortion Laws in Federal Court

The Supreme Court Stood with Fake Clinics—But the Fight for Facts Goes On

Women Deserve Better from Walgreens—and Their Lawmakers

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