Birth Control Access Is Also About Mental Health
With the right to abortion likely to be overturned in many states, access to birth control could be next. The mental health benefits of contraception go far beyond preventing pregnancy.
Reproductive Rights
The GOP Wants to Control Every Body
It's no coincidence that Republican-controlled states that criminalize abortion are also criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans people. And it's only the beginning of their pronatalist white supremacist agenda.
The Media Doesn’t Care About Abortion Rights
And now, with the Supreme Court hearing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, that could mean the end of abortion access for most of the country.
Ectopic Pregnancies Are Not Viable Pregnancies. Period
It took centuries for medicine to recognize ectopic pregnancies. Now Ohio legislators want to force doctors to "reimplant" them in a woman's uterus—which is medically impossible.
Women Never Took Their Rights for Granted
Women have always led the fight against gender oppression. So why are we being blamed for not doing enough?
Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies Are Following a Familiar Playbook
In America, xenophobic hardliners are leveraging courts to separate more families at the border and take away women’s right to safe, legal abortion and birth control.
With Gorsuch, SCOTUS Is Legitimizing “Alternative Facts”
A stolen seat on the highest bench in the country is paying off for conservatives: three decisions, with more to come, that say it’s legal to lie, cheat, and hate.
A New Legal Tactic Could Make Miscarriage a Crime
Overzealous pro-life lawyers are trying to prosecute women whose pregnancies terminated, using fetal DNA. But can they distinguish abortions from miscarriages?
This Is How “Religious Freedom” Restricts Civil Rights
The conservative ideologues at the Department of HHS are working overtime to wrest away our bodily autonomy.
“Natural Family Planning” Is Not Actually Birth Control
By taking Title X money from health providers to fund anti-abortion fake health centers, the government is trying to change the very meaning of contraception.