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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T16:01:39.000Z",
  "site": "https://msmagazine.com",
  "tags": [
    "Health",
    "Justice & Law",
    "National",
    "Politics",
    "Abortion Access",
    "Antiabortion Extremism",
    "Antiabortion Laws",
    "Dobbs v. Jackson",
    "Donald Trump and the Trump Administration",
    "Healthcare",
    "LGBTQIA+",
    "Mental Health",
    "Public Health",
    "Reproductive Justice",
    "Sexual and Reproductive Health",
    "Trans Rights",
    "U.S. v. Skrmetti",
    "What We Learned When We Stayed: What 50 Years of Care in the South Taught Us About Abortion and Trans Rights",
    "Ms. Magazine"
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  "textContent": "We’ve been here before.\n\nWhen _Dobbs v. Jackson_ came for abortion care in our states, we did two things: We opened clinics across state lines so our patients would still have a legal option. And we stayed. We kept our original clinics open, expanding the care we'd always offered or always wanted to offer.\n\nWhen _U.S. v. Skrmetti_ came for gender-affirming care, we kept providing that too, because abortion care patients and transgender patients are not separate communities.\n\nThe calculation patients make before they walk through the door is identical for both communities: Will I be seen? Will I be safe? Will the person across from me treat my body with humanity, or like a problem to be managed?\n\nJune marks anniversaries of both _Dobbs_ and _Skrmetti_ , and that conviction has never felt more urgent. Long before these two cases, the intersection of abortion rights and trans rights was already living in our waiting rooms; in the patients who received reproductive care and gender-affirming hormone therapy under the same roof; in the person who drove hours across the state because we were the only provider they trusted; and in those who trust us with their whole-person care because their grandmothers, mothers, sisters, aunts and friends have relied on our clinics for care for 50 years.\n\nBetween our two organizations, we’ve earned a century’s worth of experience at the practice of staying and enduring. CHOICES has kept their doors open for 52 years, and the Women’s Health Centers of West Virginia and Maryland will celebrate 50 years of care on June 24—the same day _Roe v. Wade_ was overturned four years ago.\n\nSupport independent clinics in hard places keeping the doors open. And when the next fight comes, show up for the communities under pressure. Remember that those targeted first won’t be the last, but they will be the ones to lead the way.\n\nThe post What We Learned When We Stayed: What 50 Years of Care in the South Taught Us About Abortion and Trans Rights appeared first on Ms. Magazine.",
  "title": "What We Learned When We Stayed: What 50 Years of Care in the South Taught Us About Abortion and Trans Rights"
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