Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez is a reporter forWGCUNews. A native of Miami, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism degree.
Previously, Lopez was a reporter for Miami's NPR member station, WLRN-MiamiHerald News. Before that, she was a reporter at The Florida Independent. She also interned for Talking Points Memo in New York City andWUNCin Durham, North Carolina. She also freelances as a reporter/blogger for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
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People who serve survivors of rape and incest say a six-week limit on abortions is unrealistic and emotionally harmful. -
The most restrictive abortion law in the country is back in effect in Texas, after a temporary block was lifted.
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If the federal appeals court throws out the temporary block of Texas' abortion law, providers could be sued retroactively.
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Abortion rights advocates say the justices have allowed Texas to skirt the constitutional rights of its citizens.
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A lot of people who got COVID still have symptoms months after the infection is gone. A team at UT Austin's Dell Medical School wants to figure out why and how to help.
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Texas Refused To Expand Medicaid Coverage To More Poor Adults. Groups Ask Congress To Do It Instead.Hundreds of organizations are asking Congress to extend Medicaid in the current budget reconciliation bill being negotiated in Washington.
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Black, Hispanic and Asian Texans made up the majority of the state's massive growth in the past decade — and groups say new political maps should reflect that.
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Unlike other abortion restrictions, the state is not enforcing this ban. Instead it is up to private citizens to sue.
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The law would allow private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone who provides any kind of support to a woman who gets an abortion after six weeks.
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Voting rights experts say the latest bill still would make it harder to vote in Texas, but it's less restrictive than what almost passed in May.
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Texas will soon be the only state with a ban in effect on the dilation and evacuation procedure, the common method for second-trimester abortions.
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The governor vetoed a part of the budget called Article X in retribution for House Democrats walking out. The court said it's up to lawmakers to settle the issue.
