The domestic and global gag rules stigmatize a simple medical procedure by disconnecting it from other health care services and by forcing doctors not to offer women the whole array or reproductive options available to them.
Irish women are having abortions, but having to go through an arduous and expensive process of travel in order to do so. A referendum on May 25 may change that.
Title X provides family planning services to nearly 4 million patients with low incomes in the United States, many of whom are people of color who face systemic barriers to health-care access.
Ahead of Robert Lewis Dear Jr.'s mental competency trial May 21, Rewire.News is seeking clarity about what sets Dear apart from the killers he says inspired him.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been celebrating "National Women's Health Week" since May 13. This, despite the fact that women's health, and reproductive health in general, is increasingly under siege.
New technology, coroners like the Georgia one who is trying to ID fetal remains found in the sewer, and like-minded prosecutors mean that people's plumbing might one day tell whether they had a miscarriage—and open them up to law-enforcement scrutiny.