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Sofia Resnick
Sofia Resnick is a national reproductive rights reporter for States Newsroom, based in Washington, D.C. She has reported on reproductive-health politics and justice issues for more than a decade.
A men’s movement takes reins in a nationwide quest to end abortion
By: Sofia Resnick - September 16, 2023
Wendell Shrock doesn’t believe in condoms. “We should leave the uterus to God,” the street preacher from Tennessee tells States Newsroom, in front of an abortion clinic outside of Atlanta, mid-morning in late July. Sweat drips from his cowboy hat into his salt-and-pepper beard that stretches halfway down his red-plaid shirt. The retired police officer […]
Study cited by Texas judge in abortion-pill case under investigation
By: Sofia Resnick - August 2, 2023
Pharmaceutical sciences professor Chris Adkins was perusing news on his computer in December when he came across an item that fascinated him: Anti-abortion groups had sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force a recall on a commonly used abortion drug. Adkins teaches future pharmacists at South University School of Pharmacy* in Savannah, Georgia. […]
National abortion ban eyed as group marks ‘Siege of Atlanta’ protests 35 years ago
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Sofia Resnick and Elisha Brown - July 20, 2023
Members of a national anti-abortion religious organization called Operation Save America are in Atlanta this week to protest at a local abortion clinic and to discuss new strategies for achieving a national prohibition on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Operation Save America began as Operation Rescue in 1986 and became more well known in […]
FDA approves first over-the-counter oral contraceptive
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick - July 14, 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it has approved the country’s first daily birth control pill that can be used without a prescription, a move that reproductive health advocates celebrated after more than 20 years of advocating for an over-the-counter option. The contraceptive, called Opill, is a progestin-only oral pill that could soon […]
After Dobbs, abortion access is harder, comes later and with a higher risk
By: Sofia Resnick - June 21, 2023
Editors’ note: This report is part of a special States Newsroom series on abortion access one year after the U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the federal right to abortion. In April, a Reddit user in Alabama posted a breathless message to the abortion subreddit the morning after learning she was pregnant. She guessed she […]
Appeals court judges embrace anti-abortion speculation
By: Sofia Resnick and Kelcie Moseley-Morris - May 19, 2023
America’s major medical institutions and drug policy scholars have roundly denounced as “pseudoscience” many of the claims brought by anti-abortion groups in a high-profile federal lawsuit asking the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, one half of a two-drug regimen that has become the most common form of pregnancy termination […]
From credit card restrictions to wastewater: What abortion foes have been up to since Dobbs leaked
By: Sofia Resnick - May 4, 2023
[Editor’s note: This week’s actions by the Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly to pass legislation that would dramatically restrict abortion rights comes one year after word first leaked from the U.S. Supreme Court that it would reverse the half-century-old Roe v. Wade decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health […]
After SCOTUS ruling, disappointed abortion foes vow to keep attacking abortion pill
By: Sofia Resnick - April 24, 2023
Though the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked an effective ban on medication abortion, anti-abortion groups are not giving up on trying to fast-track a national abortion ban. And that means continuing to try to quash nationwide access to the most common form of abortion post-Roe, by whatever means necessary. “Obviously, the pro life community […]
Abortion-rights attorneys help patients and providers navigate legal chaos
By: Sofia Resnick - April 22, 2023
These days Kylee Sunderlin is often the first person people will talk to about needing or wanting to terminate a pregnancy, even though she’s not a nurse or doctor or a loved one. She’s a lawyer. This is Sunderlin’s third year overseeing a national hotline dedicated to helping people navigate legal questions around abortion in […]
What plaintiffs targeting abortion pill want might not even be possible
By: Sofia Resnick - March 22, 2023
At the center of the federal anti-abortion lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the abortion drug mifepristone and the regimen that reportedly accounts for the majority of abortions in post-Roe America. That’s why the whole country is bracing itself for a ruling from a notoriously anti-abortion judge in Amarillo, Texas. The attention […]
This International Women’s Day, U.S. anti-abortion laws violate human rights, groups say
By: Sofia Resnick - March 8, 2023
Ahead of International Women’s Day, hundreds of U.S. and global human rights groups, doctors, and attorneys have asked the United Nations to intervene on behalf of the millions of women in the U.S. who have been left without access to legal abortion and vital forms of reproductive health care in the wake of last summer’s […]
Doctors recount ‘heart-wrenching’ stories in new study on medical care post-Roe
By: Sofia Resnick - February 24, 2023
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) are trying to piece together how the end of Roe v. Wade has so far transformed pregnancy-related medical care in America, and the yet-to-be-released preliminary data are alarming, the lead principal investigator told States Newsroom in an exclusive interview. The team has already received dozens of stories about health care providers directing patients to continue very high risk or doomed pregnancies, which they might not have done before their states criminalized abortion.