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Opinion: Project 2025 would be a death sentence for patients like me Personal Story

Opinion: Project 2025 would be a death sentence for patients like me

Kat Klawes of Wisconsin shares how the Affordable Care Act saved her life and explains how Project 2025 would threaten health care access for millions of Americans living with preexisting conditions.

UpNorthNews

Kat Klawes

1 Year Without Roe Personal Story

1 Year Without Roe

This CAP story collection details the experiences of doctors, doulas, and nurse practitioners since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and their fears in the rapidly evolving legal landscape of abortion care.

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Opinion: Leave doctors and patients to make reproductive decisions In the News
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Opinion: Leave doctors and patients to make reproductive decisions

Virginia critical care nurse Cate Weiss writes about how abortion bans criminalize medical care and put medical professionals in legal limbo, which in turn jeopardizes patient care.

The Virginian-Pilot

Cate Weiss

The MAGA Extremist Agenda Is a Threat to Progress Personal Story
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The MAGA Extremist Agenda Is a Threat to Progress

This collection features stories from Americans threatened by the harmful rhetoric and legislative actions of MAGA Republicans.

Nationwide Abortion Bans Threaten the Will of Kansas Voters Personal Story
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Nationwide Abortion Bans Threaten the Will of Kansas Voters

A Kansas abortion activist fears that a nationwide abortion ban will reverse the will of Kansas voters who overwhelmingly support protecting abortion.

What’s the Point? How Shifting Issue Priorities Could Influence the Midterms Article
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What’s the Point? How Shifting Issue Priorities Could Influence the Midterms

Democratic and Republican voters have different priorities heading into the 2022 midterm elections; whichever set of policies drives more political engagement and persuasion among voters will likely determine the outcome this November.

John Halpin

Kate Sosin on This Long, Challenging Year in the Fight for LGBTQI+ Rights Podcast

Kate Sosin on This Long, Challenging Year in the Fight for LGBTQI+ Rights

Kate Sosin, LGBTQ+ reporter for The 19th, joins Daniella to discuss recent legislative and judicial attacks on LGBTQI+ people, the importance of responsible reporting on these issues, and what all of it might mean heading into November.

Daniella Gibbs Léger, Erin Phillips, Kelly McCoy, 3 More Tricia Woodcome, Sam Signorelli, Rachel Lim

Expanding Access and Protections in States Where Abortion Is Legal Article
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Expanding Access and Protections in States Where Abortion Is Legal

Abortion is protected by state law in more than 20 states, many of which have expanded access to abortion by making it more affordable, codifying state-level reproductive rights, broadening the types of providers able to offer care, and protecting abortion providers and access to clinics.

Center for American Progress

Kierra B. Jones

How State Attorneys General Can Protect Abortion Rights Article
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How State Attorneys General Can Protect Abortion Rights

As some states seek to criminalize abortion within their borders, attorneys general can take many actions to ensure access to abortion care in at least some states.

the Center for American Progress

Maggie Jo Buchanan, Elyssa Spitzer

How Americans Can Fight Back Against a Radical Supreme Court Majority Article
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How Americans Can Fight Back Against a Radical Supreme Court Majority

Responding to the judicial overreach of a radical Supreme Court majority will require long-term structural reforms to the courts and immediate action to mitigate the harms caused by their wrongly decided decisions.

the Center for American Progress

Ben Olinsky, Grace Oyenubi

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Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Injustice

We pursue climate action that meets the crisis’s urgency, creates good-quality jobs, benefits disadvantaged communities, and restores U.S. credibility on the global stage.

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Restoring Social Trust in Democracy

Democracy is under attack at home and abroad. We must act to ensure it is accessible to all, accountable, and can serve as a force of good.

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