Abortion Coverage Built on Trust

Jessica Valenti’s rigorous reporting, plagiarism problems, and lifting the veil on an AI data center.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in 2022, Jessica Valenti started writing about abortion every day. “Everything happened so quickly, and people started being denied care so quickly, and bans came up so quickly, that I almost started writing just to keep up with it myself,” she told me. Valenti, a feminist writer and cofounder of Feministing, already had a Substack she updated occasionally but, within a week, she decided to dedicate it solely to covering abortion rights. She changed the name to Abortion, Every Day.

Four years later, it’s one of the top ten culture newsletters on Substack. Last year, Valenti hired a reporter, Kylie Cheung, to join her. Together, they track “anything and everything happening with abortion,” from bans and ballot measures to anti-abortion strategy and messaging. It’s now a resource for anyone working on reproductive healthcare and rights across the country. “A lot of our readers are lawyers, activists, abortion providers, researchers, legislators, journalists,” Valenti said. “It’s, in a weird way, sort of a trade publication for a lot of people.”