Low-income women and women of color are more likely to face obstacles in getting birth control.
Gender & Sexuality
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Fear of Women Is Key to Donald Trump’s Misogyny — and America’s
It’s not just Megyn Kelly’s questions that so frighten the Republican presidential frontrunner; it’s her gender.
Posted inEconomic Policy
On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a Right Under Threat
Forty-three years after the historic Supreme Court case, drastic new restrictions on abortion target economically vulnerable women.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
LGBT Coalition Joins Calls to Stop Immigration Raids
The Obama administration faces mounting pressure from increasingly diverse quarters to halt the practice of controversial raids to deport undocumented immigrants. The latest group to join the chorus of those demanding an end to the recent raids is a coalition of three-dozen lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups, which sent a letter Thursday to Homeland […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Best of the Prospect 2015
The Prospect weighed in on 2015’s tumultuous debates over economic inequality, prison reform, campus sexual assault, and more. Here are some of our favorite stories from 2015.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Love and the Schlonging of American Women
The Donald’s bizarre remarks on Monday betray a widely held contempt for women and their bodies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Cecile Richards: Grace Under Fire at Planned Parenthood
Richards faces down attacks that may yet backfire on the right.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Spending Bill Spares Planned Parenthood
Despite months of Republican threats and political bluster, a recently-unveiled $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that will fund the government until October 2016 includes no cuts to Planned Parenthood’s federal funding or to abortion access. The deal follows weeks of hostile negotiations on Capitol Hill. At stake were funds not only for Planned Parenthood, but […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Campaign Against Planned Parenthood Decades in the Making
The right’s takeover of the GOP mainstreamed a call to violence.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Colorado Shooting and the Recent Rise in Anti-Abortion Violence
On Friday, November 27th Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old white man, entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and opened fire. It took more than five hours for Dear to surrender to the police, and when he did, the police found nine injured, and three killed, including one police officer. The following night, The […]
