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Women Who Have Abortions Are ‘Not Alone’: A Q&A With Abortion Story Advocate...
As high school students, Beth Matusoff Merfish and her sister, Brett, spent their summer afternoons volunteering at Planned Parenthood, encouraged by their mother, Sherry. “We’d open the plastic birth...
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El Salvador’s Right-Wing Media Begins Sustained Campaign Against Releasing 17...
High-profile ultra-conservative Salvadoran right-to-life forces have launched a vicious attack in response to the slow but significant gains achieved by the Salvadoran feminist campaign to secure legal...
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Report: Racial Discrimination Severely Undermines Black Women’s Health
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. On Wednesday, August 13, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination begins a two-day...
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New Abortion Guidelines in Peru a Victory for Women and Girls, But More Work...
In 2007, a 13-year-old Peruvian girl became pregnant as the result of being repeatedly raped by a man in her Lima neighborhood. Scared, ashamed, and desperate, she flung herself off a neighbor’s roof....
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Cincinnati Clinic Will Stop Providing Surgical Abortions This Week
The Cincinnati-area Lebanon Road Surgery Center, also known as Women’s Med, will end its tenure as an abortion provider, beginning on Friday. The clinic decided not to appeal a Hamilton County judge’s...
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Pregnant Women Are Mere Vessels Under Irish Law
“I am not a vessel” has become a popular mantra for Irish reproductive rights advocates after Sir Nigel Rodley, chair of the UN Human Rights Committee, chastised Irish law for treating women who are...
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Miscarriage Isn’t Illegal, But It’s Increasingly Treated With Suspicion
Given that anti-choice hysteria is, you know, hysteria, it was always destined to infect areas of life beyond the decision to deliberately terminate a pregnancy. If you have any doubt about that,...
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The Parent Gap: Many Challengers of Birth Control Benefit Don’t Offer...
Read more of our coverage on challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit here. After giving birth to her third child last fall, biblical studies professor Amy Peeler took a financial...
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Colorado Anti-Choice Group Could Push Through ‘Personhood’ Amendment in November
When voters are presented with the text of Colorado’s latest “personhood” amendment, which would “protect women and children” by adding “unborn human beings” to the state’s criminal code, they’re...
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It Is Past Time for El Salvador to Rescind Its Abortion Ban
Read more of our coverage on the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador here. I was on a plane coming back from Mexico when I first encountered the stories of children and young women in El...
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Greg Abbott’s Views on Abortion Not Supported by Most Texans
Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis had their most personal and substantive confrontation of the campaign in their final gubernatorial debate Tuesday night,...
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Montana Judge Drops Child Endangerment Charges Against Pregnant Woman
A judge has dropped charges brought against a pregnant Montana woman who was arrested after failing a drug test in late August. Casey Gloria Allen was 12 weeks when she tested positive for drug use....
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Death Sentence in Abortion Case Compounds Dangers for Kenyan Women
Last week, a Kenyan court sentenced a nurse named Jackson Namunya Tali to death for performing an abortion that resulted in the death of a young woman in 2009. Though questions linger about the facts...
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Is Colorado’s ‘Personhood’ Amendment a Sweeping Approach to Ban Abortion?
Read more of our articles on Amendment 67 here. Colorado voters will decide November 4 whether to expand the definition of a person in the state’s criminal code to include “unborn human beings.”...
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Hulu Rejects Anti-Personhood Ad, Labels it ‘Controversial’
Read more of our articles on Amendment 67 here. An advertisement opposing Colorado’s proposed “personhood” amendment has been rejected by Hulu, a leading online streaming-video service, according to...
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Tennessee’s Amendment 1 Is A ‘Personhood’ Referendum—for Pregnant Women
Read more of our articles on the Tennessee ballot initiative here. Tennessee voters will soon be asked to vote on Amendment 1, which will remove explicit protections of the right to privacy from the...
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Bishops Denounce Catholics for Choice Campaign Against Colorado Personhood...
Read more of our articles on Amendment 67 here. Catholic bishops in Colorado have denounced a media campaign against Amendment 67 by the pro-choice group Catholics for Choice, claiming it misrepresents...
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UPS to Roberts Court: We’ll Accommodate Pregnant Workers. Will the Justices...
International shipping giant UPS for almost a decade has insisted its policy of refusing workplace accommodations for its pregnant employees is not only legal, but sound business policy. UPS has been...
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We Need Doula Care to Achieve Reproductive Justice
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. While the Affordable Care Act has significantly improved access to health insurance and preventive care, some...
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Advancing Reproductive Justice for Black Women and Women of Color in Cleveland
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. A politically hostile and anti-woman sentiment is playing out in Ohio, where local and state legislators are using...
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