Jordan Gerard
Jordan Gerard jor-dan jer-rard (she/her/hers)
Hearst Foundation Fellow

Jordan Gerard is a master’s student in investigative journalism at Arizona State University and expects to graduate in December 2023. She is the digital editor at Green Living Magazine. In southeast Minnesota, she was the editor of two weekly newspapers, The Caledonia Argus and Spring Grove Herald, for three years each. She is a 2015 graduate of Winona State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor in creative writing.

‘Crisis pregnancy centers’ face new regulations – but also gain support – after Roe

So-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” which often work to persuade pregnant people not to have abortions, are facing new regulations but also getting an infusion of money after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
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.