Senate Republicans are at it again: Later today, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to bring a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks to the floor for a vote. (The House version of the bill already passed last October.) Sponsored by Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the “Pain Capable…
After a long legal battle, Jane Doe, the unidentified, undocumented 17-year-old girl who sued the Trump administration for blocking her request to obtain an abortion, has successfully terminated her pregnancy.
Ireland is scheduling a referendum on its draconian abortion laws, which prohibit terminating a pregnancy even in the cases of rape, incest, or severe fetal abnormalities. It is likely to be a very, very contentious campaign.
A 19-year-old woman in El Salvador has been sentenced by a judge to 30 years in prison after she delivered a stillborn in a toilet at her home in rural Cuscatlán.
In a season three episode of Veep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer comments on the over-politicizing of reproductive rights, remarking aptly that “if men got pregnant, you could get an abortion at an ATM.” But men CANNOT get pregnant, so instead women’s health advocates must spend their time fighting for affordable…
Two weeks into May, on a record-breaking 91-degree day, a handful of men and women gathered in a windowless conference room in a Planned Parenthood center in lower Manhattan; they were there to learn about a little-known state abortion law that forces women in New York to give birth to babies who will die in their…
Dr. Willie Parker, 54, has became one of the most prominent abortion providers in America, operating in an increasingly hostile atmosphere that has led to the assassination of 11 people since the passage of Roe vs. Wade, and claimed the lives of thousands of desperate women in the decades before it was legalized.…
Debating an Oklahoma bill that would outlaw abortion in cases of genetic abnormalities or Down syndrome, state Rep. George Faught (R) responded to a question about abortion in cases of rape or incest by confidently stating that in many biblical cases, God wanted women to get raped. Well, why didn’t Faught tell women…
To make her point about how far Republicans will go to block abortion access under the guise of protecting women, Houston Rep. Jessica Farrar has filed the satirical A Man’s Right to Know Act, which would fine men for masturbating and impose mandatory waiting periods and counseling before they could receive a…
In advance of International Women’s Day on March 8, why not focus on the declining state of women’s healthcare in the United States?
WASHINGTON, DC — On Friday, across from the Supreme Court Building, a middle-aged white man held up a handmade sign: “Make babies great again!”
While women’s rights activists are (and should be!) still riding the high from Saturday’s global women’s marches, it’s important to use that energy for something productive—like recognizing that Roe v. Wade, which hit its 44th anniversary Sunday, remains under attack and is currently at more risk than ever before.
President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards appeared on CNN Monday afternoon to discuss the latest assault on women’s healthcare as well as the Women’s March on Washington, an event in which Planned Parenthood is a partner. “Women in this country are absolutely not going without a fight and the majority is with…
On Tuesday, the first day of Kentucky’s 2017 legislative session—and the first day in nearly 100 years that the Republican party controlled both chambers of the legislature—Republicans moved quickly to introduce two anti-abortion bills: one, Senate Bill 5, to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and another, House Bill 2, to…
In a series of focus groups conducted by Planned Parenthood (through an independent research group) across Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Trump supporters expressed dismay over the anti-abortion and anti-Planned Parenthood agenda being pushed by the man they elected into office.
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The CW’s musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has always excelled at exploring topics through a humorous and laid-back feminist lens and Friday’s episode, which featured a character calmly carrying out an abortion, was no different.
In the winter of 1910, a young woman named Bessie Watkins left her small Ohio town for the big city of Cleveland. She told her family that a new job was waiting for her, and she took the train north. They would never see her again. In fact, her descendants would never even hear of her until a century later.
Poland already has an extremely restrictive abortion policy, which means that a recent proposal for a total ban on all abortion exceptions was met with huge resistance by constituents. After massive protests on Monday, parliamentary leaders started to walk back their positions on the proposed ban, and on Thursday they…
The hot new trend in anti-abortion laws is “fetal burial” requirements, which force patients and healthcare providers to bury or cremate aborted and miscarried fetuses. As a hearing in Texas made clear yesterday, the law there is poorly thought-out, does very little to improve public health, and sounds a lot like it’s…
