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Abbey Crain

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As seen in: Reckon, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Substack, AL.com, NJ.com, MLive, The Oregonian, Cleveland.com, Penn Live Patriot-News, MassLive and
women and gender issues @reckonnews previously @wsj
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How ‘Trad-Wife’ content and unassuming TikTok trends propels the conservative propaganda machine

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By Abbey Crain Verified
| Reckon Verified
I went to college in the heyday of blogging. As an aspiring fashion writer, I mainlined the fashion and “mommy” blogs documenting the everyday lives of women around the country. I even had my own there for a minute. Blogging became vlogging became Instagram diaries and now TikTok “get ready with me’s” and I, like so many others found myself obsessed (unironically) with the day-to-day life of a Morman “mommy blogger” who has recently become the face of modern neo-conservative womanhood.
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Despite political promises, I fear Alabama IVF access still isn’t safe: opinion Original

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By Abbey Crain Verified
| AL.com Verified
Abbey Crain is a creative strategist at Reckon and the creator and editor of the Honey newsletter. Crain has covered reproductive justice and gender issues across the South for the last six years. I almost didn’t write this. I stopped writing when Roe v. Wade was overturned. I had just started IVF treatment, abortion was illegal in Alabama. What was the point of caring, of putting myself out there?
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Meet the families whose frozen embryos are at the center of Alabama’s unfolding IVF nightmare Original

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By Annabel Rocha, Abbey Crain Verified
| Reckon Verified
Brittany Pettaway’s journey to motherhood has been a long and winding road. Since 2018, the Montgomery, Ala. resident has weathered the emotional rollercoaster of fertility treatments, enduring failed attempts, miscarriage, and the strain on her marriage. Just as she and her husband, Byron, were ready to try again, they found themselves caught in a political and legal storm that threatened to upend their dreams of parenthood.
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