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Calif. Attorney General discusses the state being a haven for those seeking abortions

8:45am June 25, 2022

by Susan Davis

NPR's Susan Davis speaks to California Attorney General Rob Bonta about recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gun control and access to abortion.

People in Louisville share their stories as laws banning abortion go into effect

8:41am June 25, 2022

by Leila Fadel

The Supreme Court ruling yesterday triggered immediate abortion bans in Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota. But EMW Women's Surgical Center, a Louisville abortion clinic, is fighting to stay open.

People with disabilities worry about how they will be disproportionately affected by the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade.

With Roe v. Wade overturned, disabled people reflect on how it will impact them

7:00am June 25, 2022

by Shruti Rajkumar

Bodily autonomy is a principle of the disability rights movement. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, people with disabilities worry about how they will be disproportionately affected.

Investigators search for evidences outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 25, 2022.

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Graduating Uvalde High School class remembers those killed in mass shooting

6:09am June 25, 2022

by The Associated Press

School officials praised the students for their strength and resilience through three COVID-19 pandemic years, three changes of principals and then the May 14 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

Whole Woman's Health of Minnesota, a clinic that opened to patients in February, is one of only eight that provide abortions in the state and is located just a few minutes from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

With just 8 abortion clinics, Minnesota may struggle to meet out-of-state demand

5:00am June 25, 2022

With the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Minnesota will be one of the states where abortion remains legally protected. But legal doesn't necessarily mean accessible, advocates warn.

People line up outside of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on June 23, as the city makes vaccines available to residents possibly exposed to monkeypox.

Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'

5:00am June 25, 2022

by Michaeleen Doucleff

The testing system set up by the CDC actually deters doctors from ordering a monkeypox test, and many physicians aren't familiar with the disease, resulting in too few tests and little tracking.

A woman exhales while vaping from a Juul pen e-cigarette in 2019. A federal court has temporarily put on hold an FDA ban against the company's vaping products.

Juul can keep selling its vaping products in the U.S. — for now

8:13pm June 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

The e-cigarette maker had asked a federal appeals court to pause a ban by the Food and Drug Administration that would have required the company to immediately halt its business.

Abortion rights demonstrators hold signs outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

What people said outside the Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade was overturned

6:07pm June 24, 2022

Demonstrators from both sides of the abortion issue gathered outside the Supreme Court after the justices overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.

A group photo of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington on April 23, 2021. Seated from left: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Standing from left: Brett Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Amy C

The Supreme Court's majority and dissent opinions on Dobbs reveal a massive schism

5:40pm June 24, 2022

"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. The court's liberals warn that other rights could now be vulnerable.

The scene at the Mississippi clinic at the center of the abortion ruling

5:32pm June 24, 2022

by Rosemary Westwood

The clinic at the center of the Supreme Court's Roe decision is Jackson Women's Health Organization. The last clinic to provide abortions in Mississippi, it lost its fight to preserve abortion rights.