Ema O'Connor
BuzzFeed News
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Ema:
I Got COVID Three Times
Don’t worry, you (probably) won’t become me. But yes, you can get COVID twice, and even more. → Read More
I Can’t Stop Thinking About Britney Spears’ Speech
It feels unprecedented to hear one of the biggest pop stars in the world share something so raw and heartbreaking. → Read More
Supreme Court To Hear Mississippi Abortion Ban Case
The Supreme Court — now with a 6–3 conservative majority — will consider Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban during the next term. → Read More
Capitol Rioter And Proud Boy Had Bomb-Making Instructions
Dominic Pezzola was caught on camera smashing a Capitol window with a police shield. → Read More
Was It Selfish To See My Grandmother Before She Died?
I wasn’t planning on spending the holidays with my family, but when I heard my grandmother was dying, I had to make a decision. → Read More
Georgia Sen. Loeffler Donated To Anti-Abortion Groups
Loeffler, the richest member of Congress, is fighting for her seat against Democrat Raphael Warnock in a January runoff election. → Read More
Families Of COVID Victims During Thanksgiving, The Holidays
“I would like to go to sleep and wake up when Christmas is over,” she said. “It’s going to be very hard.” → Read More
Biden Wins Arizona, Turning It Democratic For The First Time In Decades
Fox News and the Associated Press called Arizona for Biden days ago, but there were still more votes to count. → Read More
Republican Women Had A Historic Night In Congress
Republicans broke a record in the House, electing the most new women from their party to Congress ever. → Read More
Nearly Every State Will Allow People To Vote Without Masks
BuzzFeed News spoke to all 50 states, and nearly every one said the same thing: We want you to wear a mask, but we won’t stop you from voting if you refuse. → Read More
Homeless Shelter Staff Are Saving New York's School System
School reopening has been a massive struggle for families experiencing homelessness in New York City. But without support from shelter workers, it could have been so much worse. → Read More
Black Employees Say They Faced Racism At Planned Parenthood
Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s first Black president in decades, vowed to make changes in response to the audit, which was obtained by BuzzFeed News. → Read More
A Senator Wrote An Impassioned Letter To Her Colleagues About Her IVF Treatment And Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee
The letter is in response to reports that Judge Amy Coney Barrett publicly supported an organization that believes in vitro fertilization should be criminalized. → Read More
Trump Gives Up Fight Over Abortions For Undocumented Teens
The administration issued a new policy explicitly preventing ORR staff from blocking minors in their care from obtaining abortions or disclosing their pregnancies. → Read More
Volunteers Are Coming Out In Droves To Support Reproductive Rights After Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death
Planned Parenthood and other reproductive rights groups are mobilizing droves of new volunteers and running TV ads to elect Democrats after Ginsburg’s death. → Read More
Reproductive Rights Groups Face Reckoning On Racism
Reproductive rights issues disproportionately affect Black people, yet the leadership of those groups is predominantly white and Black employees say they are marginalized. “I have never been treated so horribly in my life as I was at Planned Parenthood,” said one woman. → Read More
Supreme Court Allows Exemptions For Birth Control Coverage
The decision watered down the Affordable Care Act's "contraceptive mandate," allowing employers and universities to opt out of providing health insurance coverage for contraception for religious or moral reasons. → Read More
Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Abortion Law In Louisiana
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutional right to abortion Monday, rejecting a state’s attempts to limit access to the procedure for the second time in 4 years. → Read More
Breonna Taylor Protest: Thousands Marched Peacefully To Honor The Louisville EMT Who Was Killed By Police
Tenelle Veira single-handedly organized a protest specifically for Breonna Taylor, saying Black women are often overlooked when people talk about police brutality. → Read More
George Floyd Protests: Some Cities Are Shutting Down Coronavirus Testing During The Protests
“Data is our eyes and ears in this pandemic. Without having it, we are operating blindly,” one public health expert said. → Read More