Julianne McShane is the news and engagement writer at Mother Jones, focusing on daily news coverage and stories at the intersection of gender and inequity. Previously, she was a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital, where she wrote for the health, technology, politics, general assignment and international desks. She also has done freelance writing for the Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Guardian, among other publications. McShane started her career as a staff reporter at the Brooklyn Paper in New York City, where she covered southern Brooklyn for nearly two years. There, she won the New York Press Association’s 2018 Best News/Feature Series award in the statewide Better Newspaper Contest for a series on refugees from Iraq and Syria who resettled in Brooklyn. McShane holds a bachelor’s degree in global liberal studies from New York University, and a master of philosophy in multidisciplinary gender studies from the University of Cambridge.
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The end of Roe has hamstrung advocates for pregnant victims of domestic and sexual violence.
After an Idaho hospital closed its obstetrics department, pregnant women in the county have been left without nearby care. Their OB-GYNs fled the state.
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