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Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Kelcie Moseley-Morris is an award-winning journalist who has covered many topics across Idaho since 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho and a master’s degree in public administration from Boise State University. Moseley-Morris started her journalism career at the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, followed by the Lewiston Tribune and the Idaho Press.
Male anti-abortion religious leaders mull murder charges for pregnant people at national event
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris - July 24, 2023
An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country met Friday night to discuss the strategies that should be used to end abortion in every state at any stage of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape and incest, and with criminal punishment for the pregnant person in line with existing criminal penalties for murder, […]
National abortion ban eyed as group marks ‘Siege of Atlanta’ protests 35 years ago
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Sofia Resnick and Elisha Brown - July 21, 2023
Members of a national anti-abortion religious organization called Operation Save America are in Atlanta this week to protest at a local abortion clinic and to discuss new strategies for achieving a national prohibition on abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Operation Save America began as Operation Rescue in 1986 and became more well known in […]
FDA approves first over-the-counter oral contraceptive
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris and Sofia Resnick - July 13, 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it has approved the country’s first daily birth control pill that can be used without a prescription, a move that reproductive health advocates celebrated after more than 20 years of advocating for an over-the-counter option. The contraceptive, called Opill, is a progestin-only oral pill that could soon become available […]
Study shows sharp increases in maternal deaths over two decades
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris - July 5, 2023
A study from the University of Washington released Monday shows maternal mortality rates more than doubled in some states between 1999 and 2019, with sharp increases for some racial and ethnic groups. Researchers touted it as the first study to provide such maternal mortality calculations for every state. Previous reports have not included rates for states with […]
Echoing history, reliance upon travel rises for abortion care post-Dobbs
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris - June 22, 2023
Editor’s note: This report is part of a special States Newsroom series on abortion access one year after the U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the federal right to abortion. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision one year ago, people of childbearing age in states across the country suddenly faced what seemed […]
Appeals court judges embrace anti-abortion speculation
By: Sofia Resnick and Kelcie Moseley-Morris - May 19, 2023
America’s major medical institutions and drug policy scholars have roundly denounced as “pseudoscience” many of the claims brought by anti-abortion groups in a high-profile federal lawsuit asking the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, one half of a two-drug regimen that has become the most common form of pregnancy termination […]
Ending a pregnancy in 14 states leaves few options. Some are looking to Europe and India for help
By: Kelcie Moseley-Morris - March 20, 2023
The pills came in a dark salmon-colored envelope sealed with a plastic covering that traveled more than 7,000 miles, over a dozen time zones from Nagpur, India, in almost exactly one week. They were placed partially under the doormat of a home in a state with one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the […]