Abortion Archives

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Congressional Report Debunks Anti-Choice Talking Points in GOP’s 20-Week Abortion Ban

Ally Boguhn

Many of the questions answered in the Congressional Research Service's report speak directly to talking points used by anti-choice lawmakers to demonize later abortion care.

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I’m an Undocumented Taxpayer. Here’s How My Taxes Are Used Against My Values.

Layidua Salazar

The government regularly uses our tax contributions to fund the deportation or incarceration of our family members and to pass laws making health care more difficult to access.

Abortion Pill ‘Reversal’ Doctor: I See It Becoming the ‘Standard of Care’

Nicole Knight

Dr. George Delgado, a leading proponent of the controversial treatment to "reverse" a medication abortion, sat down with Rewire.News for a wide-ranging interview on consent and a new case series that details patients who have received the regimen.

‘Women Are Dying Because We’re Losing Elections’: Progressives Demand Change at Candidate Training

Ally Boguhn

“We need Democrats that are accountable to voters, not corporate donors. This is not a time to settle. To sit on the sidelines. To stand down. This is a time to fight."

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Why D.C. Statehood Is a Reproductive Justice Issue

Shireen Rose Shakouri

More than an extra star on the U.S. flag, establishing the District of Columbia as the 51st state would have a real impact on thousands of families.

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Housing Instability Is an Important (Yet Overlooked) Factor in the Maternal Health Crisis

Elizabeth Dawes Gay

Gentrification greatly contributes to the displacement and housing instability of people of color.

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‘Good Riddance’: Paul Ryan Calls It Quits After Years of Lies

Ally Boguhn

"Under his leadership—if we can call it that—American women suffered while billionaires took their tax cuts to the bank.”

[Photo: The cover of the book The Wonder Down Under A User’s Guide to the Vagina By Nina Brochmann and Ellen Stokken Dahl]

‘The Wonder Down Under’: A Refreshing Guide on Sexual Anatomy That We All Needed

Lorraine Berry

While reading the guide, I found myself wishing that I had possessed this book not only when I had been in my teens and first sexually active, but also as a mother.

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In El Salvador, a 20-Year-Old Faces Prison Time After Giving Birth to Her Stepfather’s Baby in a Latrine

Kathy Bougher

Imelda Isabel Cortez Palacios is just one of dozens of women in El Salvador who have been imprisoned following birth complications or miscarriages. But her case has taken on greater significance because at the hospital, she informed health professionals that her stepfather had raped her repeatedly between the ages of 12 and 19.

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Trump Offers Obamacare Exemption to Foes of Abortion Rights

Ally Boguhn

The Trump administration continued its regulatory war on the Affordable Care Act by expanding “hardship exemptions” to the law’s individual mandate for people who claim to object to abortion rights.

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