Cassidey Kavathas
Cassidey Kavathas kah-sih-dee ka-va-tas (she/her/hers)

Cassidey Kavathas is a senior journalism major and history minor at St. Bonaventure University graduating in 2024. She serves as the advisory editor of The Bona Venture and news director of WSBU 88.3 The Buzz. She has served as the editor-in-chief and news editor for The Bona Venture. She previously reported with The Chautauquan Daily, PolitiFact New York and The Olean Times Herald. She currently reports for TAPinto Greater Olean and is a writer for St. Bonaventure’s Office of University Advancement.

‘This is a long game’: A year after Roe, abortion access fight moves to blue states like New Mexico

As more states pass abortion bans, providers and patients have flocked to New Mexico, a sanctuary for abortion rights. The anti-abortion movement has followed.
Abortion-rights advocates rally in the Nebraska Capitol rotunda on April 12, 2023, in opposition to the Nebraska Heartbeat Act, which would have banned abortion around six weeks. The bill did not pass, but a 12-week ban is now law. (Photo by Joseph Kual Zakaria/News21)

‘Confusing’ and ‘chilling’: First legislative sessions after Roe produce patchwork of laws on abortion

The first full state legislative sessions after the fall of Roe v. Wade produced hundreds of bills that are all over the map on abortion, including proposals to do what was once considered unthinkable: criminalize pregnant people themselves.