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.
"We need to make sure that vulnerable people aren’t even near the police and if the police want to arrest or detain a vulnerable person, the whole crowd needs to go," Alejandra Pablos told Rewire.News during a recent interview. "They can’t arrest all of us."
Congressional lawmakers wrote in their letters that conservatives have been transparent about their endgame in plowing ahead with restrictions on Title X funds: to end funding to Planned Parenthood.
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