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The Illinois Choice Action Team has been on the ground in our state through activities like clinic escorting, counter protests, campus events and lobbying since 2005. We are a 501 c4.
website: www.ilchoiceactionteam.org
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Small Illinois city at the center of shift in abortions
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December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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What If Your Primary Care Doc Provided Your Abortion?
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Can Your Primary Care Doctor Provide An Abortion?
12.8.25
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December 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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A Five-Step Guide to Combating Misinformation on Social Media
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A Five-Step Guide to Combating Misinformation on Social Media
How fear, profit, and cherry-picked data shape your feed—and what to do about it.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Back Pain During Pregnancy Is Often Dismissed as a Passing Discomfort−A Nurse Explains Why it Should Be Taken Seriously and Treated
Many people do not know about the serious harms that untreated pain in pregnancy can cause.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Litigation Challenging the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Law’s Provision Blocking Federal Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood | KFF
This brief provides an overview of these legal challenges and summarizes the key positions of the plaintiffs and the defendants, Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medica...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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'This Is the Blind Spot in Extremism Research': Cynthia Miller-Idriss on Misogyny, Gender and Violence msmagazine.com/2025/12/05/g...
'This Is the Blind Spot in Extremism Research': Cynthia Miller-Idriss on Misogyny, Gender and Violence
Part 2 of three-part series on misogyny and political violence with sociologist Cynthia Miller-Idriss and masculinity writer Jackson Katz
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December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right msmagazine.com/2025/12/06/m...
Misogyny, Racism, Power: Connecting the Dots in the Violent Far Right
Cynthia Miller-Idriss' new book Man Up explores the links between misogyny, gendered violence against women and political extremism.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Expose Fake Clinics
Expose Fake Clinics shares the deceptive practices of fake reproductive health centers, and invites people to take action to protect pregnant folks from harmful deception.
www.exposefakeclinics.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Shout Your Abortion Short Films Seek to Normalize Keeping Abortion Pills at Home: ‘You Always Have Options’ msmagazine.com/2025/12/02/a...
Shout Your Abortion Short Films Seek to Normalize Keeping Abortion Pills at Home: ‘You Always Have Options’
Shout Your Abortion's new campaign are short, powerful films that demystify abortion pills and encourage women and girls to keep them on hand.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A Vaccine That May Reduce Dementia? The Evidence Keeps Getting Stronger
And women may benefit the most
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December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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One Good Thing
End the week on a positive note
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December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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KFF Health Tracking Poll: Knowledge and Views of Medication Abortion | KFF
This KFF Health Tracking Poll finds that many, including women of reproductive age, remain unfamiliar with key facts about mifepristone. Fewer than half of all adults say they believe abortion pills a...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Sex, Power and Impunity: Epstein’s Legacy in Historical Perspective msmagazine.com/2025/12/03/t...
Sex, Power and Impunity: Epstein’s Legacy in Historical Perspective
What good does it do women or Epstein victims of sexual coercion, trafficking and other mistreatment—to raise the heat on Trump and the files?
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December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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As Florida Schools Admit Unvaccinated Students, Working Families May Feel the Worst Consequences: Analysis
On Dec. 3, the Sunshine State plans to end many vaccine mandates required to attend public schools. The effects will be felt beyond the classroom.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Stop Turning Women’s Bodies Into Crime Scenes
12.3.25
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December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The controversial Free Birth Society
Influencers are encouraging pregnant women to give birth without midwife care – at potentially tragic cost
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December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The big sticking point in the White House’s health care proposal
For many GOP members, an expansion of abortion restrictions in Obamacare is a must-have in any tentative health care plan.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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They Came for Nurses. What They’re Really Coming for Is Women’s Power—and Your Healthcare. msmagazine.com/2025/12/03/t...
They Came for Nurses. What They’re Really Coming for Is Women’s Power—and Your Healthcare.
Trump and Republicans' move to downgrade nursing degrees shows women’s expertise is still treated as expendable and unprofessional.
msmagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The Most Unpopular Laws in America
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The Most Unpopular Laws in America
Nobody wants abortion bans—not even deep red states
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December 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The Supreme Court's Newest Abortion Case, Explained
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The Supreme Court's Newest Abortion Case, Explained
Here’s what you need to know about First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin
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December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Inside the Global Network of Abortion Doulas Supporting Self-Managed Care msmagazine.com/2025/11/26/r...
Inside the Global Network of Abortion Doulas Supporting Self-Managed Care
Rouge Doulas is building a global network of trained abortion doulas who offer free support for people self-managing abortions with pills.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Black Women’s Health Imperative Releases Preliminary Findings from the Largest National Survey on the Lived Experiences of Black Women During Menopause - Black Women's Health Imperative
Since 1983, our national organization dedicated to health of our nation’s 21 million Black women and girls – physically, emotionally and financially.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Rise of crisis pregnancy centers highlights shift in anti-abortion movement
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving faith-based pregnancy centers in New Jersey. The organization is hoping to block the state from investigating whether they misled women into b...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Twenty Thousand Stillbirths a Year, and No Federal Plan to Prevent Them msmagazine.com/2025/11/28/b...
Twenty Thousand Stillbirths a Year, and No Federal Plan to Prevent Them
For a country that claims to value life, the U.S. has allowed stillbirth to remain in the shadows of public health and reproductive justice.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Breaking: Judge Rules for Planned Parenthood in Defunding Suit
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Breaking: Judge Rules for Planned Parenthood in Defunding Suit
12.2.25
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December 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM