Author: Nina Martin, Mother Jones

Nina Martin is a reporter and editor for Reveal and Mother Jones, based in the San Francisco area. She has worked as a reporter and editor at numerous media outlets, including ProPublica, San Francisco and Health magazines, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and BabyCenter.

Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies

Women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of the Big Beautiful Bill’s most sweeping and damaging effects.

The historically brutal Medicaid cuts—a staggering $930 billion slashed from the program over the next decade—could force as many as 144 rural hospitals around the U.S. to close their labor-and-delivery units or drastically scale back services.

The First National Data on Birth Control Post-Dobbs Is Here, and the News Is Not Good

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision, as dozens of abortion clinics shut down in states with total or near-total abortion bans, reproductive justice advocates warned that the closures wouldn’t just affect patients seeking to terminate their pregnancies.

Now, in the first research to look at national trends in the use of birth control pills and emergency contraceptives in the post-Roe era, a USC study has found states with the most draconian abortion policies saw significant declines in the number of birth control prescriptions filled, especially for emergency contraception.