Garnet Henderson
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Investigative reporter—abortion access, disinformation. Cofounder @autonomynewsco, creator @ACCESSpod. Only person you’ve ever met from Wyoming.
Articles by Garnet Henderson
New White House Press Secretary Served on Board of Abortion ‘Abolitionist’ Group: October 12 News Roundup
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and more. Gage Skidmore on Flickr Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a tax-deductible gift today.
Three States Try Express Lane to Supreme Court Over ‘Shield’ Laws: October 5 News Roundup
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Tennessee AG Investigating Clinics and Abortion Funds, Racist Hyde Amendment Turns 50: September 29 News Roundup
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A Leading Anti-Abortion Zealot Just Quit the FBI Original
For the last year, the FBI’s co-No. 2 has been an anti-abortion hardliner oddly preoccupied with the earning potential of aborted fetuses.
Trump’s FDA Pick Refuses to Say IUDs Don’t Cause Abortions
This article has been republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Follow Autonomy News on , , , , and .
At Least 6 Hospitals Have Caved to Trump Shakedown on Trans Kids: September 21 News Roundup
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Surrogate Takes Custody Battle to Supreme Court, EPA to Test Water for Mifepristone: September 14 News Roundup
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FDA Lawyer Leaves Door Wide Open for Mifepristone Restrictions at Appeals Court Hearing
Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a tax-deductible gift today. On Wednesday, Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to limit access nationwide to the most common abortion method.
Mifepristone Back in Court, Vance Wants to Pay Stay-at-Home Moms: September 8 News Roundup
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Right-Wingers Love Fertility Awareness. Reproductive Health Advocates Need To Stop Dismissing It.
Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a tax-deductible gift today. While Donald Trump has mostly played coy on abortion during his second term, birth control access remains firmly in his crosshairs.
Judge Says Texas and Florida Can Challenge Mifepristone Approval: August 31 News Roundup
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FDA Pick Called Abortion Pills ‘Dangerous,’ Texas Abortion Funds Head Back to Court: August 24 News Roundup
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Our Reporting Moved the Needle. Your Support Makes It Possible.
One crisis pregnancy center received over $1 million in federal housing funds—until Autonomy News investigated. Photo by Sharon Attia Early this year, Garnet investigated Georgia Wellness Group, an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center that received more than $1 million in federal housing funds since 2020. She was tipped off by advocates alarmed at the center’s plans to open a maternity home, evoking a long history of coercive and abusive practices in the U.S. prior to Roe v. Wade.
What’s Really Going On in a Messy Surrogacy Fight: August 17 News Roundup
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‘A Big Deal’: Top Anti-Abortion Group Endorses Comstock Act As a Nationwide Ban
Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a gift from a donor-advised fund today. On Friday, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) signed a letter calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to interpret a 19th century anti-obscenity law as a national abortion ban.
Top Anti-Abortion Group Quietly Embraces the Comstock Act: August 10 News Roundup
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Massachusetts Legislature Repeals Viability Ban, Planned Parenthood of Michigan Closes More Clinics: August 3 News Roundup
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Texas Midwife’s Clinics Won’t Reopen Despite Court Victory
Last week, a Texas appeals court reversed a 2025 injunction that shut down three Houston-area clinics operated by licensed midwife Maria Rojas, who Attorney General Ken Paxton accused of violating the state’s abortion ban. When Rojas was arrested in March of last year, she was the first person to be charged under the criminal abortion ban in Texas.
Anti-Abortion Groups Tout Shady ‘Study’ on Mifepristone in Drinking Water: July 27 News Roundup
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Todd Blanche Just Opened the Door to a National Abortion Ban
This article has been republished from Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Follow Autonomy News on , , , , and . At the very end of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Wednesday confirmation hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz got Blanche to commit to taking a step that could upend abortion access in all 50 states. Cruz brought up the , an 1873 anti-obscenity law that abortion opponents want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills.
Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Just Opened the Door to a National Abortion Ban
Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a gift from a donor-advised fund today. At the very end of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Wednesday confirmation hearing, Texas Senator Ted Cruz got Blanche to commit to taking a step that could upend abortion access in all 50 states.
Idaho Voters Will Decide Whether to End Total Abortion Ban: July 13 News Roundup
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Planned Parenthood “Defund” Expires, But Harm Continues: July 6 News Roundup
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Trump Cancels Teen Pregnancy Prevention Funding, SCOTUS Takes Parental Rights Case: June 29 News Roundup
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Missouri Clinics Offer Abortion Pills for First Time Since 2018, But New Ban Is on the Ballot: June 22 News Roundup
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Gender-Affirming Care Providers Aren’t Giving Up, But They’re Getting Harder to Find
LIMITED TIME: Support three independent, worker-owned publications with a single subscription. Get a three-month subscription to Autonomy News, The Flytrap, and Mothership for less than $11 a month! Offer ends June 30. Providers of gender-affirming care—especially those who care for transgender youth—were already struggling before Donald Trump returned to office. Many had scaled back or shut down altogether in recent years due to state-level bans and right-wing harassment campaigns.
Alabama Threatens Abortion Pill Websites, New York Budget Leaves Out Trans Care: June 15 News Roundup
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Bogus Abortion Pill ‘Review’ Is Officially Underway: June 8 News Roundup
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One Year of Autonomy News
One year ago today, after a very late night preceded by months of intense work, we officially launched Autonomy News. The immediate enthusiasm we saw from readers surpassed even our most optimistic expectations. That day, we said: We write about bodily autonomy and the attacks levied by politicians and activists who want to undermine it. Our work spans abortion, birth control, pregnancy, childbirth, adoption, gender-affirming care, and more.
National Abortion Hotline Went Dark Amid Worker Strike Over AI
“This work is not just a paycheck for us. Each and every caller matters, so it was extremely difficult for us to come to the decision to strike,” the workers’ union said. Paul Campbell on Unsplash Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a gift from a donor-advised fund today. On May 26, the nation’s largest abortion fund and support service went dark for a day.
The Disappearing Babies of Migrant Girls: June 1 News Roundup
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Abortion Provider Organization Joins Suit Against Trump’s $2 Billion Slush Fund: May 26 News Roundup
Welcome to the latest edition of our weekly roundup. Every Monday, we’ll send you a summary of the biggest stories about bodily autonomy. (Except for this version, which you’re receiving on a Tuesday because of the holiday weekend.) We’ll also include links to pieces that Garnet or Susan have published. If you’d prefer to receive a single email every week, you can do that—we love autonomy.
New York Woman Forced to Give Birth in Court, Texas Blackmails a Children's Hospital: May 18 News Roundup
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Supreme Court Maintains Mifepristone Access, But Thomas Calls for Comstock Act Prosecutions
The good news is that nothing changes today. The bad news is mifepristone isn’t safe. Clarence Thomas. USDA on Flickr Autonomy News is a reader-funded, independent publication. Our reporting isn't possible without your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a gift from a donor-advised fund today.
Supreme Court Delays Mifepristone Decision, Hammer Hangs Over FDA Chief: May 11 News Roundup
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The Anti-Abortion, Pronatalist Agenda Behind Moms.Gov
The Trump administration is directing people to crisis pregnancy centers while systematically attacking access to legitimate reproductive health services.
Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Telehealth Access to Mifepristone: May 4 News Roundup
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Josh Hawley Invokes Trans Panic to Hobble Planned Parenthood: April 27 News Roundup
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Pennsylvania Court Overturns Abortion Coverage Ban, Ohio Judge Mad He Can't Deny More Abortions: April 20 News Roundup
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Suspected Arson at Ohio Planned Parenthood, A GOP Birth Control Bill That Doesn’t Totally Suck: April 13 News Roundup
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South Carolina Desperate to Criminalize Abortion, Trump Admin Plots New Birth Control Attacks: April 6 News Roundup
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Amid Political Battles Over Telemedicine Abortion, Workers At Nation’s Largest Hotline Fear Being Replaced with AI
In a recent press conference marking the introduction of his bill that would strip the medication mifepristone of its Food and Drug Administration approval for pregnancy termination, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley claimed that mifepristone is “inherently dangerous to women and prone to abuse.” Two weeks later, Louisiana Sen.
Planned Parenthood Snubs Cori Bush, Idaho Passes Bathroom Ban Even Cops Oppose: March 30 News Roundup
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Montana 20-Year-Old Threatens Abortion Provider with Gun, Josh Hawley Creates Abortion Pill 'Hotline': March 23 News Roundup
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Hawley Tries to Overrule the FDA, Florida Judges Force C-Sections: March 16 News Roundup
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DOJ Takes Aim At Off-Label Prescriptions in Gender-Affirming Care Fight
On Friday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of a small, telehealth gender-affirming care practice called QueerDoc which received a subpoena from the Department of Justice (DOJ) in July. The subpoena sought more than a dozen types of records, dating back to 2020. Most alarmingly, it demanded identifying patient information, including names, birthdates, addresses, and social security numbers.
South Dakota Censors Abortion Pill Ads, Wyoming Passes Doomed 6-Week Ban: March 9 News Roundup
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EEOC Greenlights Discrimination Against Trans People, Kansas Invalidates Their IDs: March 2 News Roundup
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Trump Judge Could Try to End Telemedicine Abortion: February 23 News Roundup
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