Shefali Luthra is a health reporter at The 19th covering the intersection of gender and health care. Previously, she was a correspondent at Kaiser Health News, where she spent six years covering national health care and policy.
Politics
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access.
Shefali Luthra, The 19th
Dispatch
Kentucky Is Latest to Test Whether Red States Will Keep Voting for Abortion Rights
An anti-abortion constitutional amendment identical to one Kansas voters rejected this summer is on Kentucky’s November ballot.
Shefali Luthra, The 19th