Kelcie moseley morris

Kelcie Moseley-Morris

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris covers reproductive rights for Stateline. Based in Idaho, where she covered many topics related to state policy, she covered the implementation of the state’s near-total abortion ban in 2022 and its effects, receiving local and regional awards for that coverage. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Idaho and a master’s degree in public administration from Boise State University.

Democrats will hold most legislative trifectas since 1984
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Democrats will hold most legislative trifectas since 1984

Nov 06, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Along with a dramatic change in congressional majorities on Election Day, an analysis from the National Conference of State Legislatures showed large shifts in legislative majorities around the country, flipping from a majority of Republican legislatures to majority Democratic. Democrats...
Idaho voters reject abortion ballot measure as Missouri, Nevada and Virginia back access
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Idaho voters reject abortion ballot measure as Missouri, Nevada and Virginia back access

Nov 04, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Nationwide results for abortion ballot initiatives on Tuesday night largely favored protecting access to abortion and other reproductive care, with the exception of Idaho, where a measure that would have restored access to abortion was soundly defeated. Idaho’s outcome stood...
Chrissy Teigen joins Idaho women who needed abortions in final push for ballot initiative
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Chrissy Teigen joins Idaho women who needed abortions in final push for ballot initiative

Oct 29, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally...
Told her baby wouldn’t survive, she had to leave Idaho for an abortion. She’s sharing her story.
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Told her baby wouldn’t survive, she had to leave Idaho for an abortion. She’s sharing her story.

Oct 28, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy. At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought...
Nearly half of AAPI women lack a reproductive health provider, survey finds
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Many Asian American, Pacific Islander women don’t have a reproductive health provider

Oct 27, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
A survey of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women and gender-expansive people found nearly half of respondents don’t have a reproductive healthcare provider and more than half don’t know how far they would need to travel for abortion...
Birth centers are linked to better health outcomes, research shows, but 10 states have none
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Birth centers are linked to better health outcomes, research shows, but 10 states have none

Oct 20, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
Birth centers are an option for those with low-risk pregnancies and are correlated with more positive health outcomes, but 10 states do not have any birth centers at all, and more could be built with certain state policy solutions and...
2 states, 2 abortion ballot measures, and the effort to win over Gen Z voters
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2 states, 2 abortion ballot measures, and the effort to win over Gen Z voters

Oct 15, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris Anna Spoerre
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Gen Z at the Ballot Box, a collaboration between States Newsroom and The 19th . Boise State University senior Cade Syvock opposes abortion. As president of the school’s chapter of the conservative group...
Research suggests women living in states with abortion bans bear higher health insurance costs
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Research suggests women living in states with abortion bans bear higher health insurance costs

Oct 06, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums, with federal data reflecting a 5.4% increase in annual premium expenditures...
Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in US Supreme Court

Sep 30, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have...
Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority
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Anti-abortion groups worry Hyde Amendment’s 50-year run could end with new congressional majority

Sep 29, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years...
High-risk pregnancy doctors publish new standards for care under state abortion bans
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High-risk pregnancy doctors publish new standards for care under state abortion bans

Sep 25, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
As physicians continue to navigate care for patients with complex pregnancies in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help providers in those states navigate legal risks for themselves and medical challenges...
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over Title X grant funding for pregnancy prevention efforts
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over Title X grant funding for pregnancy prevention efforts

Sep 18, 2026
Kelcie Moseley-Morris
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging changes to the way grants are awarded under a program that provides funding for services such as family planning and reproductive health wellness exams. The National Family Planning and...