Roe at 39: Where Women Stand

Sarah Weddington was a 27-year-old, inexperienced lawyer when she argued one of the most important cases of the 20th century before the Supreme Court. She ended up having to argue it twice, because the first time the court had two vacancies, and the justices wanted to rehear the case after President Nixon filled them. Weddington [...]

Five More Years of Ortega May Be Dangerous for Nicaraguan Women

When the Nicaraguan electorate goes to the polls this Sunday in presidential elections, incumbent president Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) party are almost guaranteed to win. Ortega has promised five more years of the same if returned to power—a dangerous prospect for Nicaraguan women and girls. Nicaragua suffers epidemic levels [...]

Woman #451: Imagining the U.S. Without Legal Abortion

Report from the United States of America, July, 2015. Four months after the re-criminalization of abortion. Woman #451 was 38 years old. She had just finished chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer. #451 believed she was infertile because the chemo had stopped her period. When she discovered she was pregnant, she was very afraid. Doctors had [...]

NEWSFLASH: ACLU Sues To Block Kansas Abortion Bill

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed suit this week in an attempt to block a Kansas law that bans private health insurance plans from covering abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 87 percent of employer-based insurance policies nationwide cover abortions. The Kansas bill forces private insurance companies to remove abortion from the list [...]

Newsflash: San Francisco Takes Stand Against CPCs

The fight against crisis pregnancy centers’ (CPCs) false advertising continued in San Francisco this week. On August 2nd, a bill was introduced before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that would make it illegal for CPCs to falsely advertise pregnancy-related services as abortion services. CPCs are primarily religious or ideologically based anti-choice facilities that have [...]

Rosa Parks Revelations and Fearless Feminist Governors: Editors’ Picks, July 24-30

A new revelation about the life of Rosa Parks surfaced this week: Among thousands of her personal items collected by Guernsey’s Auctioneers was a six-page, handwritten account of an attempted rape by a white neighbor in 1931. Civil-rights historian Danielle McGuire called the discovery astounding, saying she had never before come across a mention of [...]

Thought the Global Gag Rule Was History? Think Again

The Republicans have been awfully busy in their domestic war on women lately, but they’ve still found time to relaunch its global front. Yesterday a House committee voted to reinstate the Global Gag Rule. The rule, overturned by Obama during his first week in office, prohibited global NGO’s from receiving U.S. Agency for International Development [...]

Creepy Anti-Choice Horror Film Says Women Who Get Abortions Go to Hell

I am not especially drawn to horror films. And there’s one I know for sure I won’t be viewing: The Life Zone. Just watching the trailer was more than enough punishment. If you happened to catch Stephen Colbert’s commentary on this anti-choice propaganda piece, you know that the film is about three pregnant women who have [...]

Abortion and the Slavery Analogy: Dangerous and Wrong

A few months ago in Georgia, dozens of anti-abortion billboards were placed in low-income neighborhoods with messages suggesting abortion is a racist conspiracy to kill or enslave women of color. The billboards, with slogans like “black children are an endangered species,” were paid for by Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation, a organization [...]

NEWSFLASH: Kansas Abortion Clinics Get a Reprieve

As we reported yesterday, a new set of unnecessarily stringent regulations have threatened the three remaining abortion clinics in Kansas. But this afternoon, a judge issued a temporary restraining order that keeps the regulations from going into effect, thus allowing two clinics to stay open that were expected to close today. The third clinic, Planned [...]

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