She's the next contestant!

Today… a few pieces of personal news.

1) My aunt was on The Price Is Right and her episode airs Monday, April 11. The Perrones are losing our collective minds. That’s her on the right, accompanied by my sister, our front-line hero*:

When I tell you, you can hardly imagine someone with better energy for a game show like Price Is Right. I’m dying. Dead. I’m typing this from the grave.

2) The kids’ spring break is next week, so I am pausing the newsletter at least April 14-18, but I might give myself the whole week off. I also might have to pop in to scream about Price Is Right. We’ll see.

*We tease. She’s an overnight ER nurse in L.A., can you imagine. A bitch is booked and busy for real though.

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Woo!!

• BuzzFeed | Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Confirmed As The First Black Woman To Serve On The US Supreme Court | Zoe Tillman 

• Ms. | Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's Confirmation Will Bring About Dramatic Shifts in Power | Katie Usalis

• Prism | Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history | Alexandra Martinez

• The 19th | Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first Black woman justice. Here’s how she will change the Supreme Court. | Candice Norwood

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Abortion

• AP | Social programs weak in many states with tough abortion laws | Lindsay Whitehurst, Camille Fassett, Jasen Lo

• CBS | House Republicans want to axe Citi contracts over bank's abortion benefits | Kate Gibson 

  • HR Dive | Citigroup caught in political crosshairs over travel benefit for employees to access abortion | Emilie Shumway

• NPR / 1A | Remaking America: The Fight For Abortion Access

• NPR / Fresh Air | How the abortion underground is prepping for a post-Roe v. Wade world | Terry Gross 

• The 19th | Supreme Court’s upcoming abortion ruling will spark a new round of questions about legality and access | Shefali Luthra

• Teen Vogue | Medication Abortion Is Getting More Expensive | Sara Tardiff 

• U.S. News & World Report | The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Post-Roe Agenda: Inconvenient, Illegal, Unthinkable | Kaia Hubbard

• VICE | I Got an Illegal Abortion Before Roe v. Wade | Carter Sherman 

Alaska

• KTOO Public Media | Alaska House votes to cut Medicaid funding for abortion services | Claire Stremple 

• More from AP, The Center Square

Colorado

• The Coloradoan | Gov. Jared Polis signs Colorado law guaranteeing access to abortions | Rebecca Powell 

Delaware

• WMDT-TV | Del. Senate passes bill to expand access to safe and legal medication abortions | Sarah Ash

D.C.

• Ms. | U.S. Department of Justice Indicts Nine Anti-Abortion Extremists for Clinic Invasion | Roxanne Szal

• VICE | The Anti-Abortion World Is Defending the Activist Who Kept Fetuses at Her Home | Carter Sherman 

• Talking Points Memo | 5 Points On The Utterly Bonkers Story Of An Anti-Abortion Activist Keeping Fetuses In Her Home | Cristina Cabrera 

Iowa

• Jezebel | So, Iowa’s New “MOMs” Bill Is Really a ‘You Must Be a Mom’ Bill | Kylie Cheung

Michigan

• CNN | Michigan governor sues county prosecutors and asks state Supreme Court to protect abortion access | Kate Sullivan 

  • More from ABC, AP, Bloomberg, CBS, Detroit Metro Times, Detroit News, Forbes, HuffPost, Michigan Advance, MLive, POLITICO, Talking Points Memo, Truthout, Reuters, WSJ, Washington Post

• Michigan Advance | Planned Parenthood, doctor file lawsuit to repeal 1931 state abortion ban | Allison Donahue 

  • Michigan Advance | Facing Planned Parenthood lawsuit, Nessel vows again to not defend 1931 abortion law | Laina G. Stebbins

  • More from Detroit News, RawStory

Nebraska

• Lincoln Journal Star | Pillen targets two senators for their abortion votes | Don Walton 

Oklahoma

• CNHI News | Most restrictive, or most protective? Oklahoma residents, legislators debate abortion bills | Janelle Stecklein

• Salon | Oklahoma readies for near-total abortion ban | Brett Wilkins 

Puerto Rico

• AP | Puerto Rico steps into abortion restriction debate

South Carolina

• Post and Courier | SC bills to limit abortion, bar race-centric schooling fail to meet critical deadline | Seanna Adcox 

Texas

• The Public Magazine | Scared, Pregnant, And Living Under SB 8 In Texas | Molly Wadzeck Kraus

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Health & Justice

• The Nation | Are Republicans Ramping Up for an Attack on Marriage Equality? | Elie Mystal 

• Jezebel | Yes, Republicans Are Coming for Gay Marriage | Susan Rinkunas

• The Daily Beast | Republicans Taking Over Congress Should Scare the Hell Out of LGBTQ+ People | Danielle Moodie 

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• NBC | Black patients more likely to be deemed ‘noncompliant' in doctor’s notes | Char Adams 

• The Atlanta Voice | Protecting Our Mothers: Why Black Maternal Mortality is on the Rise | Bria Suggs 

• BuzzFeed | Serena Williams Was Ignored By Nurses After Childbirth And It's An Insight Into Racial Bias In Medicine | Stephanie Soteriou 

• SELF | Serena Williams Says Her ‘Life or Death’ Childbirth Experience Required 4 Surgeries | Serena Coady 

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• Facing South | Bringing lifesaving doula care to low-income communities in the South | Elisha Brown 

• Healthcare Business Today | Various Ways Sexual Health Has Changed Over the Years | Daniel Casciato

• JD Supra | CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage | Arushi Pandya