Abortion Archives

[Photo: A doctor, who's standing, speaks to a seated patient.]

Health-Care Providers Must Consider What Role We’ll Play in Harm Reduction if Abortion Is Outlawed

Harm reduction is a common-sense approach that looks at the reality of our patients’ lives and tries to address their needs in the safest way possible.

[Photo: The empty Supreme Court chamber in the West Virginia State Capitol Building.]

What Impeachment of the West Virginia Supreme Court Could Mean for Abortion

Kenyetta Whitfield

It’s not just a party shift Gov. Jim Justice (R) is attempting to make in the courts by replacing impeached justices with Republicans—it’s an ideological one.

Planned Parenthood Names Dr. Leana Wen Its President

Katelyn Burns

A former Planned Parenthood patient, Wen said she understands the importance of fighting for access to quality reproductive health care.

Manitoba Indigenous Doula Initiative Empowers Women, Helps Keep Kids Out of Welfare System

Anna Kusmer

"Indigenous women are beautiful and powerful and resilient. They are worthy, and they deserve to be moms to their children."

CHOICE/LESS 403: The Talk

Jenn Stanley

Season 4 of CHOICE/LESS is all about teens, sex, abortion, and the law. In this episode, host Jenn Stanley asks what it takes to have open and healthy family communication, especially around polarizing topics like abortion.

Conservative Appeals Court Tees Up Supreme Court to Gut ‘Roe’

Jessica Mason Pieklo

A decision from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday shows the conservative appeals court is looking to undermine Roe v. Wade any chance it gets.

[Photo: Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his confirmation hearing.]

Did Kavanaugh Commit Perjury? Senate Democrats Have Until Noon to Call for an Investigation.

Jodi Jacobson & Aretha’s Funeral and the White Supremacist Imagination

Senate Dems have until noon today to call for a perjury investigation into U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

CHOICE/LESS 401: How Did You Keep That a Secret?

Jenn Stanley

Season 4 of CHOICE/LESS is all about teens, sex, abortion, and the law. In episode 1, Jenn takes you back to her own adolescence and talks with a former classmate about their experiences attending a small, all-girls Catholic high school.

[Photo: Bob Bland holding baby at Women's March podium.]

Bob Bland: Two Generations Resisting for Our Daughters

Bob Bland & Aretha’s Funeral and the White Supremacist Imagination

A “yes” vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court does not represent us—in fact, it puts us, our families, and our communities in jeopardy.

[PHOTO: A Black man wearing a suit and a necklace with a cross holds a microphone before a podium reading

Aretha’s Funeral and the White Supremacist Imagination

Toni M. Bond

Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. spewed pompous, bombastic white supremacy rhetoric about Black women’s supposed failures at raising their children, especially Black boys—though Aretha herself was a single mother.

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