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Shefali Luthra

Shefali Luthra

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Reproductive Health Reporter, The 19th News

Washington

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Climate change, Health, Biology, Indigenous Peoples, Sleep , Environment, Medicine , Dreams, Nature , Neuroscience, Science

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Business, Finance, Markets and Economics

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Seniority Positions

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Total articles 5337

  • She Was Tracking Post-Roe Abortions. The Trump Administration Just Pulled Her Funding.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified| Ms. Magazine Verified Originally published in The 19th on April 9, 2025. Diana Greene Foster is responsible for landmark research on the effects of abortion access—a massive 10-year study that tracked thousands of people who had an abortion or were denied one. But funding for a follow-up to her seminal Turnaway Study has just been cut as part of a wave of canceled health policy research. Foster received a MacArthur “genius grant” for the Turnaway Study.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified · Ms. Magazine

    Apr. 16, 2025

  • She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified| In These Times Verified Shefali Luthra, The 19th April 16, 2025 This story was originally published at The 19th. Diana Greene Foster is responsible for landmark research on the effects of abortion access — a massive 10-year study that tracked thousands of people who had an abortion or were denied one. But funding for a follow-up to her seminal Turnaway Study has just been cut as part of a wave of canceled health policy research. Foster received a MacArthur ​“genius grant” for the Turnaway Study.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified · In These Times

    Apr. 16, 2025

  • She Was Tracking Post-Roe Abortions. The Trump Administration Just Pulled Her Funding.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified| Ms. Magazine Verified Originally published in The 19th on April 9, 2025. Diana Greene Foster is responsible for landmark research on the effects of abortion access—a massive 10-year study that tracked thousands of people who had an abortion or were denied one. But funding for a follow-up to her seminal Turnaway Study has just been cut as part of a wave of canceled health policy research. Foster received a MacArthur “genius grant” for the Turnaway Study.

    By Shefali Luthra Verified · Ms. Magazine

    Apr. 16, 2025

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The 19th News

The 19th is an independent, nonprofit news organization based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2020. It focuses on gender, politics, and policy, with a commitment to empowering women, women of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals. The organization is named after the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The 19th provides news coverage that highlights issues affecting underrepresented communities, particularly through a gender-equity lens. It offers free access to all articles, ensuring that its content reaches historically underserved audiences. The organization actively recruits journalists from diverse backgrounds and collaborates with nonprofits and philanthropic organizations to further its mission. With a national reach and a digital-first approach, The 19th emphasizes intersectional reporting and aims to challenge systemic inequities in media representation.

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Founded: 2020