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Shefali Luthra

Shefali Luthra is The 19th’s reproductive health reporter. She has covered health care for more than a decade, starting at the Texas Tribune.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary speaks after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on April 18, 2026. (Photo by Jim Watson/Getty Images)

FDA exit could threaten abortion access nationwide

Shefali Luthra, Barbara Rodriguez
Dolores Huerta, labor leader, civil rights activist and co-founder of United Farm Workers, speaks during Together for Democracy 2026, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Democracy Forward)

Women leading farmworker movement won’t let it be defined by Cesar Chavez

Chabeli Carrazana, Shefali Luthra, Marissa Martinez
Demonstrators march during the nationwide "Stop ICE Terror" rally through downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 20, 2026 in protest against US President Donald Trump's policies. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP / Getty Images)

Pregnant Minnesotans postpone abortion appointments to avoid ICE

Shefali Luthra
Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Mamdani spoke of his aunt’s fear after 9/11. Backlash revealed how Islamophobia persists

Shefali Luthra
The Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants against federal policy

Shefali Luthra, Mel Leonor Barclay
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump IVF plans fall short of his campaign promise

Shefali Luthra, Orion Rummler
In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Anti-abortion groups have a new strategy to end telehealth abortion

Shefali Luthra
US Senator Martha McSally (R) (R-AZ) speaks next to US President Donald Trump at a Keep America Great Rally in Phoenix, AZ, on February 19, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Martha McSally’s health care pledge is at odds with her record

Shefali Luthra
Donald Trump | Chart of daily COVID-19 tests per thousand people in the United States of America (AP Photo/COVID Tracking Project/Our World in Data/Salon)

Why Trump’s comparison of COVID-19 death rates in Germany and U.S. is wrong

Shefali Luthra
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s claim that US tested more than all countries combined is “pants on fire” wrong

Shefali Luthra
(Michael Brochstein / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

What’s missing in the coronavirus response

Shefali Luthra
Jesse Watters on The Five (Fox News)

Fox News’ Jesse Watters says travel bans “more critical in saving lives” than COVID-19 testing

Shefali Luthra
Democratic presidential hopefuls Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Former Vice President Joe Biden, Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg and Indiana Senator Amy Klobuchar participate in the ninth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats make slashing attacks on health care plans

Emmarie Huetteman, Victoria Knight, Shefali Luthra
(Lalocracio/Getty Images)

Women shouldn’t get a bill for an IUD … but sometimes they do

Shefali Luthra
US President Donald Trump (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Team Trump says administration’s action on health care “is working.” Is it?

Shefali Luthra
(Getty/HAZEMMKAMAL)

A regulatory haze: Vape marketers are online, creating new headaches for feds

Shefali Luthra, Chaseedaw Giles
Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden (Getty/Scott Olson)

Biden calling ACA a “breakthrough” for mental health parity only highlights gaps

Shefali Luthra
Cory Booker; Elizabeth Warren; Joe Biden; Kirsten Gillibrand; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Salon)

Democratic voters want to hear candidates’ views on health, but priorities vary

Shefali Luthra
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) (Getty/Scott Olson)

Booker’s argument for environmental justice stays within the lines

Shefali Luthra
(Rainmaker Photo/MediaPunch/IPX)

Planned parenthood’s “risky strategy” to update its image

Shefali Luthra, Anna Maria Barry-Jester
(Shutterstock)

Health officials’ plug for next FDA chief: Go big on e-cig regulation

Shefali Luthra

In Florida, drug re-importation from Canada finds new champions, old snags

Shefali Luthra, Phil Galewitz
Bernie Sanders, joined by Richard Blumenthal and Kirsten Gillibrand, unveil their Medicare for All legislation to reform health care. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

For 2020 Dem hopefuls, “Medicare-For-All” is a defining issue, however they define it

Shefali Luthra
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

Drug-pricing policies find new momentum as “a 2020 thing”

Shefali Luthra
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