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Sofia Resnick

Sofia Resnick

Sofia Resnick is a national reporter covering reproductive rights for States Newsroom. She is the former author of SN’s Reproductive Rights Today. An investigative reporter, Sofia has written about women’s health and LGBTQ equality for a variety of national publications including, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and Rewire.News.

The men of Operation Save America close out the group’s weeklong anti-abortion protest in front of the Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 22, 2023. (Photo by John McCosh/Georgia Recorder)

A men’s movement takes reins in a nationwide quest to end abortion

By: - September 14, 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 […]

Pharmaceutical sciences professor Chris Adkins, who has questioned the accuracy and data used in a 2021 study authored by anti-abortion doctors about the key abortion drug mifepristone, says U.S.-based academic publisher Sage Publishing is reviewing the paper. (Photo courtesy of Chris Adkins)

Study cited by Texas judge in abortion-pill case under investigation

By: - August 1, 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. […]

After Dobbs, abortion access is harder, comes later and with a higher risk

By: - 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 was […]

The contraceptive drug norgestrel sold as Opill, which was approved by the FDA decades ago for prescription-only use. If the FDA approves, it would be the first time a birth control pill would be available without a prescription. (Screenshot FDA)

Health experts urge FDA to approve over-the-counter birth control in unanimous vote

By: - May 12, 2023

Dyvia Huitron started having sex when she was 16. Worried about getting pregnant, she talked to her parents about getting on hormonal birth control. Instead, they grounded her. The now-19-year-old had expected pushback – she was living in a religious community in conservative McAllen, Texas. But she underestimated how many years it would eventually take […]

Abortion rights activists and lawmakers at the state and federal level are fighting restrictions and bans in court, stockpiling abortion medication and trying to codify abortion rights in more states. (Photo by Sofia Resnick/States Newsroom)

From credit card restrictions to wastewater: What abortion foes have been up to since Dobbs leaked

By: - May 4, 2023

Anti-abortion leaders could not stop paraphrasing Winston Churchill last June after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a victory that took 50 years to realize.  “While we celebrate the momentous ruling in Dobbs, we must remember that overturning Roe was not the beginning of the end, but it was the end of the […]

Idaho-based Stanton Healthcare parked its anti-abortion mobile clinic in front of the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Ontario, Oregon, on the same day that the new clinic opened, in response to Idaho’s abortion ban. (Photo courtesy of Brandi Swindell)

How to make a state abortion ban go national

By: - April 13, 2023

A fast-food restaurant was the last place she expected to have an abortion. A month had gone by since the 26-year-old had found out she was about seven weeks pregnant. She’d gone to her closest Planned Parenthood, near Boise, Idaho, last August – the same week that abortion became a criminal act in her state. […]

A woman looks at a sonogram in an undated photo. (Photo by John Fedele/Getty Images)

Doctors recount ‘heart-wrenching’ stories in new study on medical care post-Roe

By: - 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 […]

Abortion pills and drinking water are seen in an undated photo. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Suspect science and claims at center of abortion-pill lawsuit

By: - February 13, 2023

Emergency rooms across America are teeming with women and girls bleeding from abortion drugs in such copious amounts that it’s exacerbating the national blood shortage.  Or, at least, that’s the grim – but false – narrative a group of small conservative Christian medical associations have painted for a federal judge in Texas. Their mountain of […]