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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Senate Bill 4 would limit the timeframe a person could get a medication abortion from 10 weeks into a pregnancy to seven weeks.
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While Democrats were in Washington, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 1, one of the sweeping voting bills House members are blocking from passage.
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In effect, the law could eliminate access to all abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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The latest bills contain many measures from a past failed legislative effort that voting rights groups say would make it harder to vote in Texas.
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Texas legislators have begun a special session, where they once again will consider a bill that could change how the state votes.
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Researchers say coverage disparities are growing faster and getting wider in states that have not expanded Medicaid.
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The agency will work to eliminate health disparities in the state when it comes to race, ethnicity and geography, among other things.
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Advocates thought health care would be a top priority for the Legislature during a pandemic. For the most part it wasn't.
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Senate Bill 7 would have added restrictions to in-person voting and mail-in ballots and created a slew of new criminal penalties for voters and election workers in Texas.
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Under a bill signed into law by Gov. Abbott on Wednesday, private citizens can sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
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As of May 2, state officials say more than 5 percent of people vaccinated have only gotten one of the two doses they need to be fully vaccinated.
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The new online portal will help the state identify where there are clusters of people who want to get vaccinated.