Abortion bans are confusing doctors about what’s still legal. Reveal investigates the effects on pregnant women and the growing influence of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers.
Kentucky
Posted inReproductive Rights
Kentucky Lawmaker Pushes to Regulate Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers After Reveal Investigation
The bill is among legislative proposals in more than a dozen states targeting crisis pregnancy centers.
Posted inReproductive Rights
This Nurse Wanted to Help Women Avoid Abortions. Then She Saw Infection Control Problems at a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
State agencies aren’t monitoring anti-abortion clinics that offer free ultrasounds and other medical care. A Kentucky nurse’s complaints against one facility illustrate the lack of accountability.
Posted inHate, The Hate Report
The Hate Report: First he threatened a mosque, then CNN
A man accused of calling in death threats to CNN was out on bail in time for dinner, a white nationalist town manager gets fired and more.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Left for Dead
Kentucky authorities identify ‘Mountain Jane Doe’
After 47 years as little more than a local ghost story, Kentucky State Police announced that an unidentified murdered woman discovered near Harlan is Sonja Kaye Blair-Adams.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Judge’s controversial crusade renews diversity debate
The Kentucky Supreme Court will consider whether juries must be diverse after a judge dismisses an all-white jury.
Posted inAccountability, Law Enforcement, Left for Dead
47 years later, authorities close in on identity of Mountain Jane Doe
Nearly half a century after the saga of “Mountain Jane Doe” began, authorities in a small Kentucky mining town say they are one step closer to identif
Posted inCriminal Justice, Left for Dead
See our documentary series ‘The Dead Unknown’
“The Dead Unknown” tells the story of Jane and John Does in America and the thousands of families left in the dark about their loved ones’ fate.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Left for Dead
She never left Harlan alive
In 1969, a young woman was stabbed to death in Harlan, Kentucky, and buried without a name. Local authorities undertook an exhumation last November in hopes of identifying the victim known only as “Mountain Jane Doe.” But the results were surprising.