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Kate Smith

  • Senior Director, News Content, Planned Parenthood
New York
As seen in: Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets Magazine, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Yahoo News, CBS News, Yahoo Finance, Sydney Morning Herald, Baltimore Sun, Yahoo and
Now:Senior Director of News @ppfa. Then:Reporter at CBS, Bloomberg, FT/Debtwire, Baltimore Sun. Views are my own, duh. Insta: instagram.com/lakatekate

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Texas abortion ban targets anyone who helps patients get the procedure Original

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By Kate Smith
| CBS News Verified
Texas "Heartbeat" bill signed into law Texas "Heartbeat" bill signed into law 04:50 At 26 years old, Poppy Northcutt made history as NASA's first female engineer in Mission Control. She was instrumental in calculating the maneuvers that would bring the astronauts home from the first moonwalk in 1969. But today, at age 77, Northcutt has a different mission: helping patients in Texas navigate the state's maze of abortion restrictions, some of the strictest in the country.
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Births fall to 42-year low in U.S., new CDC data shows

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By Kate Smith
| Record - Delta Verified
By: Kate Smith / CBS News - Updated: 17 hours ago Posted Jun 2, 2021 The number of births in the U.S. fell 4% in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 and continuing a multi-year trend of declining birth rates. That’s according to a report recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
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Texas passes "heartbeat" abortion ban that could lead to flood of lawsuits Original

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By Kate Smith
| CBS News Verified
The name behind Roe v. Wade The name behind Roe v. Wade 02:08 Texas lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that would prohibit all abortions in the state after about six weeks into pregnancy — with a unique provision that would allow private citizens to file civil lawsuits against doctors, staff, or even a patient's family or friends who "aid and abet" in such procedures.
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