A pregnant woman I didn't know struck up a conversation with me at a party recently. We chatted amicably about the weather (bad), the Golden Globes (fine) and the food at the party (great) before the conversation turned—inevitably, it felt—towards birth (hers). She told me she was nervous but excited, that she could… » 1/23/15 11:50am Friday 11:50am

As it stands the GOP's current abortion bill - slated to be introduced next week - would ban abortions after 20 weeks. The current legislation makes allowances for abortion in the case of rape, but requires that women formally report their assault to the police in order to qualify for the exemption. But some… » 1/17/15 1:15pm 1/17/15 1:15pm

Over at Vice, Jezebel alumna Callie Beusman interviews the Dutch abortion activist at the center of the upcoming film Vessel. Who wouldn't want to spend a cold winter night snuggled up with a tub of popcorn and a movie about a doctor who helps women have abortions on a boat? » 12/05/14 4:40pm 12/05/14 4:40pm

Here's an article from last year about the woman (Sarah Weddington) who argued the case. She was only 26! One firm wouldn't hire her after law school because they wouldn't be able to curse at a lady! She's from Texas (yay awesome Texas women)! Here's her picture: » 1/22/14 8:59pm 1/22/14 8:59pm

One-time government official Sarah Palin is on a roll right now. Fresh off of her choice to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by criticizing President Obama for "playing the race card," she took to her Facebook page to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by pointing out the abortion she didn't but could have had. » 1/22/14 7:45pm 1/22/14 7:45pm

Dr. Kenneth Edelin, convicted in 1975 of manslaughter for terminating the pregnancy of a woman who was six months along, died of cancer today in Sarasota, Florida. His case was one of the first public battles over a woman's right to a late term abortion. » 12/30/13 7:00pm 12/30/13 7:00pm

In case you thought that Jim Bob Duggar's comments over the weekend comparing the liberal Americans to Nazi Germans and conservative Americans to the United States army during World War II weren't polarizing enough, he's gone a step further, explaining that the number of fetuses aborted in America is equivalent to "a… » 10/16/13 6:00pm 10/16/13 6:00pm

NARAL announced that Ilyse Hogue will succeed Nancy Keenan as president. Awesome choice. » 1/15/13 10:00am 1/15/13 10:00am

Both conservative politicians and some mainstream publications want us to think sex selective births — whether via abortion or pre-birth embryo testing — are on the rise and deserve our urgent attention. But while sex selection is unarguably a crucial problem in some countries that favor men over women, focusing on… » 8/29/12 4:40pm 8/29/12 4:40pm

A Louisiana public school reserves the right to force girls they "suspect" are with child to take pregnancy tests on command. Students who test positive — or refuse to take the pregnancy test in the first place — aren't allowed to go to school anymore. Because pregnancy (aka sluttiness) is contagious, and if we just … » 8/06/12 7:00pm 8/06/12 7:00pm

The military reported 471 rapes of servicemembers in 2011, but the real number is probably higher, since the Pentagon's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office estimates that only about 13.5 percent of all rapes and sexual assaults in the military are actually reported. Several hundred women in the military… » 6/13/12 12:45pm 6/13/12 12:45pm

Everything was probably fine when you woke up today — you went about your morning routine, brushing your teeth either before or after breakfast, either of which is perfectly fine because in America, your dental hygiene should be your business, making plans to do something fun but inexorably falling into a state of… » 3/24/12 6:05pm 3/24/12 6:05pm

Are you tired of always looking at Mitt Romney's face without being able to punch it? Are you angered by his upsetting and constantly evolving position on abortion? Then these are the perfect shoes for you: Mitt-Flops! They're flip-flops with Mitt's face on them, but they also feature his contradictory, flip-flopping… » 3/01/12 10:30am 3/01/12 10:30am

In case you've ever been confused about how starkly different Democratic and Republican rhetoric can be over the issue of a woman's right to make decisions about what happens to her own body, this is what President Obama said earlier today to commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade: » 1/22/12 5:30pm 1/22/12 5:30pm