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Kevin Palomino keh-vin pal-uh-mino

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Inasmuch Foundation Fellow

Kevin Palomino is a junior at the University of Oklahoma majoring in journalism and minoring in international studies. Palomino serves as president of his school’s chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. For the past two years, he was a reporter at Telemundo Oklahoma, covering news stories ranging from death penalty executions to Oklahoma’s wild, severe weather. Palomino was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and immigrated to Oklahoma with his family in 2005.

DakotaRei Frausto, who is Mescalero Apache and lives in San Antonio, was 17 years old when they learned they were eight weeks pregnant. Because of Texas’ six-week abortion ban, they had to travel to New Mexico for the procedure. (Photo by Kevin Palomino/News21)

17 and pregnant in Texas: One Indigenous teen tells their story

DakotaRei Frausto was 17 when they drove over 700 miles from Texas to New Mexico for an abortion. Now, they're using their experience to advocate for others.

Las redes mexicanas de píldoras abortivas cruzan la frontera de EE. UU. para ayudar a inmigrantes sin acceso al aborto

México despenalizó el aborto justo antes de que Estados Unidos hiciera lo contrario y pusiera fin a casi 50 años de derechos federales al aborto. Desde entonces, activistas han ayudado a personas del lado estadounidense a obtener píldoras abortivas, especialmente a las poblaciones inmigrantes vulnerables a las que se les ha impedido el acceso.

Mexican abortion-pill networks reach across U.S. border to help immigrants without access

Mexico decriminalized abortion just before the United States went the opposite way and ended federal abortion rights. Now activists are helping people in the U.S. get abortion pills to those in need via cross-border underground networks.

Sandy Harris, left, and Jonnette Paddy, right, with Indigenous Women Rising talk about abortion care and reproductive health with attendees at the “Women Are Sacred” conference on June 27, 2023 in Albuquerque, N.M. (Photo by Noel Lyn Smith/News21)

Indigenous communities navigate abortion after Roe

Abortion was never readily available to Indigenous women, and the reversal of Roe v. Wade made it worse. States with some of the largest Indigenous populations also have some of the strictest restrictions on abortion.