Women banded together to force a pharmaceutical company to reckon with the devastating side effects of its controversial product.
reproductive rights
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Ireland’s Path to Legalizing Abortion
At a time when the United States may render it illegal
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What Happens If the Trumpified Supremes Overturn Roe and Obergefell
A state-by-state breakdown of where abortion and same-sex marriage would remain legal—and where they wouldn’t
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Trump Launches Full-Scale Attack on Abortion Access
Once Donald Trump claimed he would keep abortion legal if he became president. “I am pro-choice in every respect,” the real-estate developer said in a 1999 NBC interview. What a difference 20 years makes. With a willing Republican Congress, President Trump has moved to obliterate abortion access at every turn. Last week, the Senate Appropriations […]
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How Democratic Socialists Helped Propel Abortion Funds to Record Fundraising Levels
And focused on places—like Mississippi—where funding for abortions is hard to find
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Catholics and Choice
A few days ago, TheWashington Post ran an article detailing the curtailment of abortion rights in states since the 2010 elections, when many states fell under right-wing Republican control. Thirty-three states have enacted abortion restrictions since then, while just 17, plus the District of Columbia, have not. What interested me about those two lists was […]
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The Abortion Generation Gap
A new poll from PRRI has found wide generational gaps on issues of abortion, reproductive health, and sexual assault. “As this younger generation continues to flex its political muscles—as we saw in the response to the Parkland shooting—they could also reshape the national conversation on women’s health issues,” said PRRI CEO Robert P. Jones in […]
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Abortion Access, the Supreme Court, and a Troubling Case of Déjà Vu
Planned Parenthood’s new petition for high court review involves a state restriction on medication abortion nearly identical to one the nation’s top court ruled unconstitutional in 2016.
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Arkansas and Hawaii Medication Abortion Cases Present New Challenges
Two cases winding their way through federal courts involve non-surgical abortion access.
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New Stirrings in Trump’s Assault on Women’s Equality and Reproductive Freedom
The administration continues to lunge in the wrong direction and to threaten harm to women everywhere.
