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Last week, the New Mexico legislature passed four bills that could expand access to treatment for substance abuse.

Lawmakers in Alabama and Indiana are moving to arrest and incarcerate pregnant women with mental illness and drug addiction, and charge them with harming their fetus.  National Advocates for Pregnant Women is working to defend the basic rights of pregnant women suffering from mental illness, severe depression, or any other health problem to be treated like other human beings experiencing the same problems.

Talking motherhood and feminism with Amber Kinser. Kentucky puts a stop to criminalizing women who choose to give birth despite drug addictions, and why mandatory ultrasound laws are immoral, insulting, and ineffective.

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Aimee Thorne-Thomsen speaks up about the many flaws in the Newsweek "graying of pro-choice movement" piece. Also, fear-mongering on motherhood and some common sense on marriage.

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