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Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest.
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Four Arkansas women and an OB-GYN filed a lawsuit this week challenging the state’s near-total abortion ban. The case’s lead plaintiff, Emily Waldorf, was denied antibiotics and abortion care after her cervix dilated when she was 17 weeks pregnant. She...

The U.S. has seen a massive expansion in private equity-linked fertility clinics since 2013, new research shows.
The peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in December 2025 found that more than half of IVF cycles in the U.S. in 2023 were done at clinics affiliated with private equity firms, or investment funds that raise...

In this episode, Imani Gandy and Jess Pieklo unpack the federal charges brought against Black journalists and advocates in connection to an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church.
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Even though many legislative sessions only just convened across the country this month, efforts to restrict access to abortion pills are in full swing, particularly in states that already ban abortion.
Nearly 200 anti-abortion bills have been introduced in 29 states, according to an estimate by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research organization....