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ABORTION
“ N O P E R S O N I N T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S S H A L L , O N T H E B A S I S O F S E X ,
B E E X C L U D E D F R O M P A R T I C I P A T I O N I N , B E D E N I E D T H E B E N E F I T S O F,
O R B E S U B J E C T E D T O D I S C R I M I N AT I O N U N D E R A N Y E D U C AT I O N P R O G R A M
O R A C T I V I T Y R E C E I V I N G F E D E R A L F I N A N C I A L A S S I S TA N C E . ”
Pills in
sudden
demand
Abortion medication use on
the rise in post-Roe America
PAM BELLUCK
NEW YORK TIMES

In the hours after the Supreme Court re-

leased its decision overturning the legal
right to abortion in the United States, nearly
100 requests for appointments flowed into
Just the Pill, a nonprofit organization that
arranges for patients to obtain abortion pills
in several states.
That was about four times the usual daily
number of appointment requests for the or-
ganization, and many came from patients in
Texas and other states that quickly halted
abortions after the court ruling.
Abortion pills, already used in more than
half of recent abortions in the U.S., are be-
coming even more sought-after in the after-
math of Roe v. Wade being overturned, and
they will likely be at the center of the legal
battles that are expected to unfold as about
PHOTOS BY CHRIS KNIGHT AND ANDY BLACKBURN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS half the states ban abortion and others take
Emily Spangler, Penn Manor field hockey; Bryna Kelly, Garden Spot track and field; Mary Bolesky, Lancaster Catholic basketball; Elizabeth steps to increase access.
Horner, Lampeter-Strasburg swimming; Maisy Lapp, Manheim Township soccer.
For use in first 10 weeks
TITLE IX | 50TH ANNIVERSARY The method, known as medication abor-

FIGHT FOR EQUALITY

tion, is authorized by the Food and Drug
Administration for use in the first 10 weeks
of pregnancy. It involves taking two differ-
ent drugs, 24 to 48 hours apart, to stop the
development of a pregnancy and then cause
contractions similar to a miscarriage to ex-
pel the fetus, a process that usually causes
bleeding similar to a heavy period.
Many patients choose medication abor-
tion because it is less expensive, less inva-
Legendary E-town coach recounts struggles, sive and affords more privacy than surgical
ABORTION PILLS, page A4
strengths of coaching in women’s ranks
MIKE GROSS | MGROSS@LNPNEWS.COM has been waging since she was a little girl

W
growing up in Manheim, just wanting to
hen President Richard play baseball and basketball and tennis
Nixon signed Title IX and any other game that happened to be
into law in 1972, he going on.
didn’t know he was Ironically, it was a woman — her own
changing American mother — who stopped Kauffman from
sports. No one did. playing on the first organized team she J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | ASSOCIATED PRESS

The legislation was, on its face, an al- wanted to join. It was a Billie Jean King, tennis icon, speaks

IX
most under-the-radar provision in the youth baseball team Thursday after helping unveil a portrait of
Education Amendments Act. It reads: in Manheim, and her the late Rep. Patsy Mink of Hawaii, who
helped pass the Title IX Amendment, at
“No person in the United States shall, on teammates and coach-
the basis of sex, be excluded from partici- TITLE es were OK with it.
the Capitol in Washington.
LANCASTER
WATCHDOG
Law still
pation in, be denied the benefits of, or be But.
subjected to discrimination under any 1972 — 2022
“It was just playing
education program or activity receiving with all boys,’’ Kauff-

vital in push
federal financial assistance.” man, now 79, said Tuesday.
There’s no mention of the participation
of women or girls in sports. But the inter-
“You didn’t do that. Nobody had.’’
Kauffman ended up building a life in Are encrypted
pretation of the new code lit the fuse on a
revolution in sports.
It wasn’t the end of a fight, but a begin-
sports, going on to coach basketball, field
hockey and tennis at Elizabethtown Col-
lege for a cumulative total of 89 seasons
for fairness apps OK for
ning. and 1,143 wins — making her one of the
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
And it was a fight Yvonne Kauffman KAUFFMAN, page A6
Title IX, the law best known for its
role in gender equity in athletics and
elected officials?
Yvonne Kauff-
man, former
preventing sexual harassment on cam-
puses, turned 50 years old last week. TOM LISI
head coach WATCHDOG@LNPNEWS.COM
It was signed into law by President

A
for women’s
basketball, Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972, after t least 10 Lancaster County elected
field hockey being shepherded through Congress officeholders are signed up as users
and tennis at in part by Rep. Patsy Mink, a Democrat of different end-to-end encrypted
Elizabethtown from Hawaii who was the first woman messaging apps, LNP | LancasterOnline
College, sits
on the court of color elected to the U.S. House. has found.
that was Kate Snider, Franklin & Marshall End-to-end encryption is a technology
named for her College’s Title IX coordinator, said that scrambles the data that one person
at Thompson Title IX, at its basic level, protects indi- sends to another in order to prevent a third
Gymnasium viduals from discrimination based on party from hacking and obtaining pri-
on the cam- sex, such as sexual harassment, sexual vate information. Some apps that use the
pus Tuesday.
violence and a failure to provide equal technology also can be set to automatically
CHRIS KNIGHT | STAFF athletic opportunity. delete messages after they’ve been read.
PHOTOGRAPHER
FAIRNESS, page A7 LNP | LancasterOnline used known
phone numbers of elected officials to see if
they were signed up on popular encrypted
INSIDE | Local female athletic directors, Page C1 y Tennis icon reflects, Page C2 y 3 writers celebrate Title IX, Page F1 WATCHDOG, page A5

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