Self-managed abortion is not new, but is vilified by right-wing and religious groups opposed to abortion rights as akin to the dangerous back-alley option.
Possession of khat, a chewable plant stimulant that's popular in the Horn of Africa, may condemn a Somali immigrant in New Hampshire to indefinite detention. And in other news, hookworm is making a comeback—in Alabama and in court.
The film’s directors said they wanted to show how abortion "has become so politicized that it is being used as a pawn to win presidencies.” But the film left a number of important stories regarding communities of color on the cutting room floor.
Health care has emerged as a key issue in this year’s midterm elections, as GOP elected officials scramble to deal with a significant shift in the popularity of Obamacare.
Chung exposes the raw pieces of her heart, allowing the reader to feel all the complex emotions that came with learning the details of her origin as an adult who still yearned to hear that her birth parents—her first parents, the ones who might look like her—wanted her, even if they couldn’t keep her.
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