Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez is a reporter forWGCUNews. A native of Miami, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism degree.
Previously, Lopez was a reporter for Miami's NPR member station, WLRN-MiamiHerald News. Before that, she was a reporter at The Florida Independent. She also interned for Talking Points Memo in New York City andWUNCin Durham, North Carolina. She also freelances as a reporter/blogger for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
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Texas is one of several GOP-led states this year that has passed new voting restrictions this year.
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Clinicians say they are seeing an influx of "panicked" patients trying to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.
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State health officials combed through millions of health records spanning back to when vaccinations started in January.
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If passed, the Build Back Better bill would extend health plans to people living in Texas and the other 11 states that didn't expand Medicaid.
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Travis County officials say they are working with local school districts to begin vaccination efforts in the area.
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Researchers say the drop in procedures has been steeper than when other new abortion restrictions have gone into effect in Texas.
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Most elections, experts warn, could be over during primaries — which means fewer voters will be choosing candidates.
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People who serve survivors of rape and incest say a six-week limit on abortions is unrealistic and emotionally harmful.
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The most restrictive abortion law in the country is back in effect in Texas, after a temporary block was lifted.
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A Texas Medical School Program Is Trying To Help People Dealing With Long-Term Side Effects Of COVIDA lot of people who got COVID still have symptoms months after the infection is gone. A team at UT Austin's Dell Medical School wants to figure out why and how to help.