Morgan Fischer
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Hearst Foundation Fellow

Morgan Fischer is an undergraduate student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She is working on a double major in journalism and mass communication and political science and expects to graduate in May 2024. She has worked at The Arizona Republic as a digital production intern, a reporting intern at The Copper Courier, an education and technology reporter at the Cronkite News D.C. Bureau and a digital intern at RightThisMinute. She has also worked at The State Press in a variety of positions, including as the newsletter and politics editor.

Saint Gianna & Pietro Molla Maternity Home, seen here on July 6, 2023, is an institution within the North Dakota anti-abortion movement. Located in Warsaw, the facility was originally a convent for nuns and a boarding school. It now serves young pregnant women. (Photo by Trilce Estrada Olvera/News21)

In abortion-restricted North Dakota, lawmakers put resources toward mothers and children

With a near-total abortion ban now law in North Dakota, legislators and anti-abortion advocates are trying to find ways to support pregnant people and new mothers. Critics say it’s not enough.

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.