Why can’t we embrace the idea that prisoners have labor rights?
Beth Schwartzapfel
Beth Schwartzapfel is a freelance journalist living in Boston. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, and other publications.
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Born This Way?
Transgender activists believe that when children insist their birth sex is the wrong sex, their wishes should be honored. Dr. Kenneth Zucker disagrees.
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Inconvenient Contraception
For millions of women, getting birth control is a laborious process. Would making the pill an over-the-counter drug be the best policy fix?
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Former Prisoners Reforming Prisons
Politicians and correctional officials are recognizing that, in conversations about prison reform, they must include the voices of those who have lived it.
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Barrier Methods
When Margaret Sanger was arrested in 1916 for “obscenity” (which is to say, advocating birth control), diaphragms were a revolutionary way for women to take control of their bodies. What do most women think of diaphragms today? Yawn. So quaint, so old-fashioned, so … Margaret Sanger. The number of women using the diaphragm has fallen […]
