Eleanor Klibanoff

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Eleanor Klibanoff is the women's health reporter, based in Austin, where she covers abortion, maternal health care, gender-based violence and LGBTQ issues, among other topics. She started with the Tribune in 2021, and was previously with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in Louisville, where she reported, produced and hosted the Peabody-nominated podcast, "Dig." Eleanor has worked at public radio stations in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Missouri, as well as NPR, and her work has aired on "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Here & Now." She is conversational in Spanish. Eleanor was born in Philadelphia, raised in Atlanta, and attended The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Houston-area midwife arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions

Eleanor Klibanoff by Eleanor Klibanoff / Texas Tribune

A Houston-area midwife has been arrested on allegations she performed illegal abortions, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion, as well as practicing medicine without a license, according to Paxton. Rojas, […]

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion group’s Texas challenge to mifepristone

Eleanor KlibanoffKaren Brooks Harpter by Eleanor Klibanoff / Texas Tribune and Karen Brooks Harper / Texas Tribune

Mifepristone, a common abortion inducing medication, will remain on the market without additional restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an anti-abortion group’s challenge to the drug’s approval. In the high court’s first abortion-related ruling since it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, the nine justices ruled to change nothing about the drug’s legal […]

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