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Rachael Lorenzo calls it their “auntie laugh,” a powerful chuckle that lasts long and fills any space. Aunties are prominent figures in Indigenous culture who offer comfort when one needs help.Aunties answer the phone when no one else does.That’s what Lorenzo, who is Mescalero Apache, Laguna and Xicana, does as founder of Indigenous Women Rising, a national fund that covers

Abortion access was never readily available to Indigenous women, and the reversal of Roe v. Wade made it harder for them.

States with some of the largest Indigenous populations also have some of the strictest restrictions on abortion: places like North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma, home to the Cherokee Nation,

The first state legislative sessions after Dobbs vs. Jackson saw laws cobbled together that either restrict abortion rights or protect them.

Abortion was never readily available to Indigenous women, and the reversal of Roe v. Wade made it worse. States with some of the largest Indigenous populations also have some of the strictest restrictions on abortion.

The first full state legislative sessions after the fall of Roe v. Wade produced hundreds of bills that are all over the map on abortion, including proposals to do what was once considered unthinkable: criminalize pregnant people themselves.

States like Colorado and New Mexico are now seeing an influx of patients.

As the US braces for the end of a federal right to abortion, a new six-week ban in Oklahoma offers a preview of what’s to come

Clinicians in Oklahoma are trying to devise strategies to help their patients get to clinics in other states. But there are limits to what they can do.

Since Texas enacted its six-week abortion ban, hundreds have gone to Oklahoma for care, but now new restrictions are moving through the state legislature