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![Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a demonstration against the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health case on June 24, 2022, in the Manhattan borough of New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0628-ocasio-cortez-ab-400x300.jpg)
AOC Shares Guides to Abortion Access: “Your Bodily Autonomy Belongs to You.”
Right-wing figures criticized Ocasio-Cortez for sharing information on how to access abortion medication online.
![Protesters hold signs during an abortion rights demonstration at the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 25, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0628-abortion-prot-s-400x300.jpg)
Dark Money Fuels the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Push to Control State Legislatures
Millions have been quietly funneled into stacking courts with anti-abortion justices and authoring perilous legislation.
![People hold placards as they protest in downtown Los Angeles on June 26, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0628-abortion-la-400x300.jpg)
California Will Vote on Enshrining Abortion Rights in State’s Constitution
The proposal would prevent far right judges from upending abortion rights in California.
![Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks during a press conference on April 19, 2021, in St. Paul, Minnesota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0628-tim-walz-400x300.jpg)
Minnesota Governor Signs Order Strengthening Abortion Access in the State
The order prohibits state agencies from assisting other states in punishing their residents for obtaining an abortion.
![Facebook Is Helping Anti-Abortion Clinics Collect Highly Sensitive Personal Data](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/seg3-facebook-400x300.jpg)
Facebook Is Helping Anti-Abortion Clinics Collect Highly Sensitive Personal Data
Personal data is already being harvested and used by medically unlicensed anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers."
![Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leaves after speaking to abortion rights activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0628-ocasio-cortez-a-400x300.jpg)
AOC and Warren Advocate Opening Abortion Clinics on Federal Land in Red States
Vice President Kamala Harris said the White House is not currently discussing the progressives' idea.
![People embrace during a candlelight vigil in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the court's decision to end federal abortion rights protections on June 26, 2022, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0627-abortion-scotus-n-400x300.jpg)
Self-Determination Has Been Wrenched Away From Half the US Population
For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court has retracted a fundamental constitutional right.
![Supreme Court justices lined up in portrait](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/seg1-scotus-400x300.jpg)
People of Color Will Be Most Impacted by the Overturn of “Roe”
Black women account for 80 percent of cardiac deaths in pregnancy in Mississippi.
![An abortion doula speaks with a patient after the patient got an abortion at an abortion clinic in Falls Church, Virginia, on November 24, 2017.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0627-abortion-doula-400x300.jpg)
As a Former Abortion Doula, Here’s How I’m Facing the Dawn of a Post-“Roe” World
We will work to create communities of mutual aid and care that can be our buffers against these far right attacks.
![Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers awaits to address the virtual Democratic National Convention, at the Wisconsin Center on August 19, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0627-tony-evers-400x300.jpg)
Abortion Providers in Wisconsin Will Be Granted Clemency, Gov. Tony Evers Says
Evers said he'd grant clemency to any physician charged under an 1849 anti-abortion statute in the state.