This Doctor Says He Can “Reverse” Abortions
So-called crisis pregnancy centers are well known for trying to convince women not to end their pregnancies. But George Delgado, a physician with a crisis pregnancy center called Culture of Life Family...
View ArticleTrump Be Damned: States Are Fighting to Make Birth Control Over-the-Counter...
Last month, the Trump administration started considering a rule that would alter the Obama-era mandate—which requires most employers provide insurance that covers contraception—by broadening its...
View ArticleThe UN Just Called Out New York for Its Dangerous Anti-Abortion Policy
On Tuesday, the United Nations took a rare step and weighed in on a reproductive rights bill currently languishing in the New York state Senate and urged legislators to pass the legislation before the...
View ArticleThere Is More Bad News for Women in the Republican Health Care Bill
The draft Senate bill reforming the Affordable Care Act that was unveiled last week is devastating for women’s health. It cuts all federal funding for Planned Parenthood for a year, makes it possible...
View ArticleThis Powerful New Film Tells “the Real Handmaid’s Tale”
Civia Tamarkin wanted to make a film about reproductive rights, but she knew it had to transcend the familiar abortion debate. A veteran criminal justice reporter and two-time documentarian, she was...
View ArticleNew Study Shows that States With the Most Anti-Abortion Laws Also Have the...
For years, anti-abortion advocates have used the claim that abortion is bad for women’s health to help justify restrictions on the procedure. But how do states with highly restricted access to abortion...
View ArticleSarah Palin Just Lost Her Defamation Lawsuit Against the New York Times
A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday threw out former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the New York Times. Palin had sued the paper for defamation earlier this year over an...
View ArticleA Republican Just Did Something Good for Abortion Rights
Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner announced on Thursday that he will sign legislation to remove a ban on abortion coverage for women enrolled in Medicaid and in state employee health insurance. The...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Just Voted (Again) to Outlaw Abortions After 20 Weeks
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—a bill that outlaws most abortions after 20 weeks of gestation and stipulates that anyone who performs one...
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Trump is Coming for Your Birth Control. Can States Stop Him?
The Trump administration recently announced a rule that will gut the Obamacare mandate that required most employers cover the cost of birth control in their insurance plans. The rule, which will make...
View ArticleThis Ballot Measure Would Be a Big Win for Maine’s Elderly
Mainers will soon get the chance to continue their streak of progressive ballot initiatives. The Maine People’s Alliance, the political advocacy group behind last year’s Medicaid expansion victory,...
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Inside the Top-Secret Abortion Underground
On a summer day in 2015, Renata and more than a dozen women, all strangers from different parts of the country, sat in a semicircle on the living-room floor of a house, deep in the rural South. A lean...
View ArticleSeattle Gives Nannies a Break—Literally
On Friday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed into law the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, a piece of legislation that expands basic labor protections, like minimum wage and mandatory rest breaks, to...
View ArticleSen. Susan Collins Says Brett Kavanaugh Believes the Right to Abortion is...
Brett Kavanaugh believes that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, is “settled law,” Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) told reporters outside her office on...
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The Militant Wing of the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Back—And It’s Never Been...
Brian Stauffer Before marching into the women’s health clinic in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on a freezing day last December, Monica Migliorino Miller and her compatriots paused to ask God to...
View ArticleThe Case for Giving Pregnant Women More Drugs
Pregnancy often comes with a lengthy list of physical discomforts, but Kate O’Brien’s were unusual: coughing, night sweats, extreme fatigue. After a series of misdiagnoses, a test finally came back...
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A Radical Solution to the Impossible Cost of Caring for the Elderly
Roland Bourque was 30 years into a career with the Public Works Department in suburban Biddeford, Maine, when his symptoms became too obvious to ignore. It was 2012, and Roland, 6 feet tall with a gray...
View ArticleNo One Knows Which Drugs Are Safe for Pregnancy. Soon, We May.
Kate O’Brien was several months pregnant when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis, a potentially deadly and highly contagious disease. She was held in a hospital isolation room for months, where she...
View ArticleAmerican Women Can Now Get Abortion Pills Shipped to Their Homes
For the first time, women in the United States who want abortions but are unable either to get to a clinic or afford clinic care can log on to a website, find evidence-based information about the...
View ArticleWomen Who Face Prosecution for Home Abortions Finally Have a Number to Call
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump told voters he believed that women who end their pregnancies should face “some form of punishment.” He soon walked back his remarks, but the statement,...
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