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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U.S. Supreme Court allows abortion providers to sue over Texas’ abortion ban, but keeps law in placeThe high court dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's request to block the law. -
Texas is one of several GOP-led states this year that has passed new voting restrictions this year. -
A part of the secretary of state's office will be dedicated to conducting election audits, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Texas. -
The CDC released two reports Friday following months of warnings from doctors and health officials that this group is particularly vulnerable to COVID. -
Clinicians say they are seeing an influx of "panicked" patients trying to avoid an unwanted pregnancy. -
State health officials combed through millions of health records spanning back to when vaccinations started in January. -
If passed, the Build Back Better bill would extend health plans to people living in Texas and the other 11 states that didn't expand Medicaid. -
Most elections, experts warn, could be over during primaries — which means fewer voters will be choosing candidates. -
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. -
If the federal appeals court throws out the temporary block of Texas' abortion law, providers could be sued retroactively. -
Abortion rights advocates say the justices have allowed Texas to skirt the constitutional rights of its citizens.
