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Bridgette Dunlap

Bridgette Dunlap

Bridgette Dunlap is a lawyer and writer living in St. Louis County. She has written for Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, ReWire, Ms. and Slate. Bridgette wants Missouri to be a great place for her kids, and all kids, to grow up.

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People hold up signs that read "Protect safe, legal abortion."

Abortion initiative wouldn’t just end the cruelty of Missouri ban. It would be a new world

By: - May 26, 2023

“We are witnessing a lot of suffering on the hotline,” Linda told me. “People are scared out of their minds.” Dr. Linda Prine is the co-founder of the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline. When someone orders pills off the internet because their state has criminalized abortion care or they face other barriers, they can call if […]

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We know where the Missouri AG’s inflammatory anti-trans rhetoric could lead

By: - April 28, 2023

In 2015, Robert Dear shot three people to death and injured nine others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood. When he was arrested after a five hour stand-off he told police: “no more baby parts.”  The gunman was repeating a lie that presidential candidates and politicians had taken mainstream after an anti-abortion group released doctored videos […]

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Missouri AG doesn’t want the public to know he’s pushing wild legal theories in abortion cases

By: - April 7, 2023

In a press release and tweets announcing his amicus brief in a Texas abortion case, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey describes a relatively limited objection to a recent FDA policy change, which allows for medication abortion to be dispensed at pharmacies.  After summarizing the brief’s claims that medication abortion is unsafe, the press release states: […]