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Sarah Szilagy

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Activists Occupied Bathrooms in the US Capitol to Protest the Trans Ban

Protesters occupy a bathroom near House Speaker Mike Johnson's office. Courtesy Alexa B. Wilkinson Protesters took to the US Capitol bathrooms...

06.12.2024 10

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Emboldened by the Election, Ohio GOPers Push Through a Trans Bathroom Ban

An all-gender restroom at San Diego International Airport. (Karen Focht/Zuma) To Republican lawmakers, the 2024 election results were the mandate...

27.11.2024 6

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Florida’s Abortion Rights Amendment Just Failed

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, appearing with doctors, holds a press conference to speak in opposition to Amendment 4, which would have constitutionally...

06.11.2024 10

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Iowa’s Surprising Poll Is About Abortion—but Also the State’s GOP Power Grab

Protesters fill the Iowa Capitol rotunda after GOP lawmakers passed a six-week abortion ban in a special session in July 2023. Hannah Fingerhut/AP ...

05.11.2024 10

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Louisiana Sued Over Law Classifying Abortion Pills as “Controlled Substances”

An abortion rights supporter outside the US Supreme Court in March, before oral arguments in a suit over the abortion drug mifespristone. Sue...

01.11.2024 5

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Abortion Is on the Ballot in These 10 States

Mother Jones illustration Two years after the US Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, tens of millions of Americans will go to the...

28.10.2024 30

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Ohio Passed a Measure Protecting Abortion Rights. Then the Money Ran Out.

Mother Jones; Megan Jelinger/AFP/Getty Every Monday morning, the staff of the Abortion Fund of Ohio’s intake line starts fresh, answering calls,...

27.10.2024 9

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Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules

A sign at a rally defending transgender rights in Houston in June 2023. Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto/Zuma When the US Department of Health and...

15.10.2024 4

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GOP Attorneys General Have Launched a New Attack on Gender Care for Kids

More than 300 people gather in front of the Idaho Capitol to oppose anti-transgender legislation. Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/Zuma Last August,...

28.09.2024 20

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After Bomb Threats, Springfield Mayor Gives Himself Emergency Powers

A church sign at House of Prayer near the First Haitian Church and community center in Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. Luis Andres...

20.09.2024 3

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JD Vance Has Supported Criminalizing People Seeking Abortions

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Republican vice-presidential nominee, speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Aude...

01.08.2024 9

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Will Ohio Strike Down Its Draconian Gender-Affirming Care Ban?

A transgender rights advocate holds a sign outside the Ohio Statehouse during a protest against a bill to ban trans girls and women from playing...

19.07.2024 7

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Here’s the Latest Example of How Conservatives Have Gamed State Supreme Courts to Restrict Abortion

Abortion-rights protesters wave signs and cheer at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2022. Charlie Neibergall/AP When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in...

18.07.2024 8

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