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Zero Abortions (Oona Zenda/KFF Health News)

Republican states claim zero abortions. A red-state doctor calls that “ludicrous”

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The examination room in A Woman's Choice of Jacksonville clinic, which provides abortion care on April 30, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Maryland is training more health workers to offer abortion care

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Samantha Casiano (C) speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse on July 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas. A Texas state court will hear arguments from both sides in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of thirteen Texas women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

How the Texas trial changed the story of abortion rights in America

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Kristin Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist, lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. These days she drives across the border to work in rural Minnesota. “I want to practice medicine here,” she says, “but first we have to get rid of this law.” (Sarah Varney/KFF HEALTH NEWS)

In Wisconsin, women’s health care is constricted by an 1849 law. These doctors are aghast

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Close up of judge holding gavel (Getty Images/naruecha jenthaisong)

Groups sue to overturn Idaho “abortion trafficking” law targeting teens

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People participate in a rally organized by RiseUp4AbortionRights, which held rallies and marches nationwide to oppose the growing erosion of abortion rights on International Women's Day. (Wendy P. Romero/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Abortion bans skirt a medical reality: For many teens, childbirth is a dangerous undertaking

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Pro-choice demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. The Supreme Court is set to hear challenges to Texas' restrictive abortion laws. - The conservative-majority US Supreme Court hears challenges on Monday to the most restrictive law passed since abortion was made a constitutional right nearly 50 years ago -- a Texas bill that bans a woman from terminating a pregnancy after six weeks. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Emergency contraception marks a new battle line in Texas

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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV preventative drug (Daniel Born/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

HIV preventive care is supposed to be free in the US. So, why are some patients still paying?

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In super-vaxxed Vermont, Covid strikes — but packs far less punch

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An Amazon employee prepares a package for shipment (RONNY HARTMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing homes bleed staff as Amazon lures low-wage workers with Prime packages

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Pro-choice protest. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Long drives, air travel, exhausting waits: what abortion requires in the South

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Tony Dix receives his second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-thru vaccination site operated by the Florida Department of Health at St. Patricks Catholic Church on January 26, 2021 in Mount Dora, Florida. More than one million seniors 65 and older have been vaccinated in the state. (Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images))

Anti-immigrant vitriol complicates vaccine rollout in southern states

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How Trump’s anti-abortion zeal shook fragile health systems around the world

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A one dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine, made by MERCK, is held up at the Salt Lake County Health Department on April 26, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Getty/George Frey)

America’s obesity epidemic threatens the effectiveness of any COVID vaccine

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‘Contraception deserts’ likely to widen under new Trump administration policy

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A man walks past a house laying in flood water in Catano town, in Juana Matos, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (Getty/Hector Retamal)

In weary post-storm Puerto Rico, Medicaid cutbacks bode new ills

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A section of collapsed road after Hurricane Maria, October 7, 2017 in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

For one father and son in Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s cloud has not lifted

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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File) (AP)

Inside the global race to deliver a vital radioactive isotope used to detect cancer

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As marijuana laws relax, doctors say pregnant women shouldn’t partake

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Workers at a Greatbatch Medical plant in Tijuana, Mexico. (John Francis Peters for The New York Times and KHN)

Lifesaving devices come from places like Tijuana, and Trump border taxes will affect end-user pricing

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