
Ziva Branstetter
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Sep 14, 2026
What Has and Hasn't Changed in the Last Four Years
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19:26Caroline SparksGUEST
So we tried to do a mix of educational events and also like some storytelling We just launched this year an event called the Truth Story Award.
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19:41Caroline SparksGUEST
And this year, our award went to a Tulsa journalist, Ziva Branstetter, and she actually led a team with ProPublica that revealed and documented the deaths of five pregnant women in Texas and Georgia who were either denied or delayed necessary abortion care.
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20:02Caroline SparksGUEST
And that... that exact, like that specific series ended up winning a Pulitzer for public service.
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20:09Caroline SparksGUEST
So we just wanted to honor her, her journalistic, not only her journalistic abilities, but also just her willingness to share and amplify those stories because right now there's actually no tracking going on at a federal level regarding women who are, whose deaths have been linked to abortion bans.
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20:31Caroline SparksGUEST
So it just, sort of emphasizes how necessary those stories are and that we need to share them.
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20:39speaker_1HOST
Yeah.