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Jill Filipovic

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Jill Filipovic is a contributing writer for cosmopolitan.com. She is the author of OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind and The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness. A weekly CNN columnist and a contributing writer for the New York Times, she is also a lawyer. 

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As Boko Haram Kidnapping Victims Are Rescued, Many of Them Are Pregnant. Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Their Right to Abortion?

NGOs are ready to help the rescued women and girls have safe births, but birth is the only pregnancy outcome they're mentioning.
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Oklahoma Women Now Have to Delay Their Abortions by 3 Days

A new law requires doctors to tell women to go home and think about it for 72 hours before they can terminate a pregnancy.
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Jemima Kirke Tells Her Abortion Story: "My Life Just Was Not Conducive to Raising a Healthy, Happy Child"

She shares her story so her daughters don't have to fight for their rights to their own bodies too.
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Debunked Rolling Stone Rape Article Was a "Collective Failure" of the Editorial Staff

The authors of an investigation into Rolling Stone's article discussed their findings at a press conference today.
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Kansas Legislature Passes Ban on Second-Trimester Abortion Procedure

It's part of a broader effort to outlaw second-trimester procedures nationally.
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Ohio Legislator Shares Her Story of Needing an Abortion After She Was Raped

"What you're doing is so fundamentally inhuman, unconstitutional, and I've sat here too long," she told her anti-abortion colleagues.
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Arizona Lawmakers Pass Controversial Abortion Law

It would block women from buying insurance with abortion coverage and require doctors to tell women, falsely, that some abortions can be reversed.
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Man Arrested for Allegedly Sexually Assaulting a Sleeping Woman on the Subway

Carlos Chuva of Queens has been charged with a felony.
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Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi Vandalized

The beleaguered clinic has been a target of legislative assaults and physical attacks alike.
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Police Investigation at UVA Finds No Evidence of Rape

But police also say the case isn't closed yet.
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Rolling Stone to Publish Investigation of UVA Rape Story

The review of the controversial story will come out in April.
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Lawmaker Brings Up Abortion in Conversation With 4th Graders

What was supposed to be a simple civics lesson quickly soured.
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