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Cosmetic procedures: Your body, your choice

Dylan Walker, Columnist September 23, 2024

Set the scene, it’s 2002 and Botox is first used for cosmetic purposes. A game changer. Since then, we as a society haven’t stopped. From a few units in your lips to a full facelift, the options are...

Alabama is reeling from a state court’s decision that frozen embryos are human beings. Here’s what could happen next

Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN February 28, 2024

CNN -- The Alabama Supreme Court this month ruled that frozen embryos are human beings and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death, sending the state’s fertility...

Days after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children, one facility pauses IVF treatment

CNN -- The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that found frozen embryos...

A yard sign in support of voting yes on Issue 1 in this November's Election.

Issue 1 in Ohio passes, allowing for greater reproductive rights

Adriana Gasiewski, Staff Reporter November 8, 2023

As a result of the Nov. 7 election, Issue 1 passed, allowing legal abortions past the six-week ban and access to miscarriage care, contraceptives and fertility treatment. The League of Women Voters...

Reproductive justice teach in creates community and awareness

Faith Fistler, Reporter April 12, 2023

The Reproductive Health to Reproductive Justice Teach In unites groups across Kent State’s campus to shine light on the current state of abortion rights in Ohio after the overturning of Roe v. Wade last...

Reproductive rights teach in brings faculty and students together

Gabby Jonas, TV2 Reporter April 11, 2023

As one of the most common abortion pills could be banned in Ohio in the near future, faculty and students came together to host the Reproductive Health and Reproductive Justice Teach In. Lizzy Laufkin,...

Led by SDS members, the attendees gathered for the speak out march down the Esplanade March 8, 2023.

SDS celebrates International Women’s Day with ‘Speak out on the K’

Adriana Gasiewski, Reporter March 8, 2023

Students from Kent State Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) celebrated International Women’s Day with a speak out on the K. Maya Niesz-Kutsch, senior and co-chair of SDS, began the event by giving...

Ohio Supreme Court election now features party affiliations

Catie Pusateri, Reporter November 7, 2022

For the first time in Ohio’s history, the Ohio Supreme Court election on Nov. 8 will display each candidate’s political party affiliation on the ballot. Last year, Gov. Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill...

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LOGAN CYRUS January 28, 2021

Former Vice President, Joe Biden, adresses the audience at the We Decide: Planned Parenthood Action Fund 2020 Election Forum to Focus on Abortion and Reproductive Rights event in Columbia, SC on June,...

Former Vice President, Joe Biden, adresses the audience at the We Decide: Planned Parenthood Action Fund 2020 Election Forum to Focus on Abortion and Reproductive Rights event in Columbia, SC on June, 22 2019. - Many of the Democratic candidates running for president are in Columbia to make appearances at the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention and the Planned Parenthood Election Forum on June 22. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions

(CNN) -- President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration.The memorandum...

How poll workers play a key role on Election Day

Poll workers are the backbone of Election Day. But what happens when you don’t have enough workers?The coronavirus pandemic has brought new challenges to the Portage County Board of Elections, causing...

Organization for disabled adults extends opportunity to Kent State Trumbull

Jessica Cobb Regionals/Teaching reporter September 28, 2020

Students with disabilities can be integrated into university culture and prepare themselves for career success with a partnership at Kent State’s Trumbull campus. The campus is home to Siffrin Academy...