In Kenya, desperate pregnant women and girls who lack access to safe medical care because of funding cuts under Trump’s global gag rule are turning to "curtain clinics” to terminate their pregnancies. Such clinics are run by people who aren’t nurses or doctors.
Reproductive health advocates worry changes approved this month will inspire a crackdown by Catholic bishops charged with interpreting rules on abortion, sterilization, and contraception.
Just eight states have laws that explicitly protect the right to legal abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and states such as New York have stalled on similar laws.
Live Action, which has allied with congressional Republicans to block federal funding to reproductive health-care organizations is a sponsor of the anti-choice conference in Denver next month.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh has emerged as an early frontrunner to fill the seat left vacant by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. But I have a different theory.
With the news of Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring, CHOICE/LESS creator and host Jenn Stanley shares a few thoughts about what it means, where we're headed, and how the upcoming season fits into the picture.
Kennedy is retiring and a SCOTUS fight is upon us. This is not politics as usual. This is survival. The Democrats must treat it as such or be forever infamous for preemptive surrender.
The cases decided this week highlight a disturbing trend of labeling nearly any legal restrictions on religious conservatives (predominantly white Christians) as impermissible discrimination, while ignoring even the most blatant evidence of discrimination against Muslims and people of color.
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