Abortion Archives

[Photo: A demonstrator wears a cape that reads 'I had an abortion, Im not ashamed or Sorry!' as protesters rally during a Women's March in New York]

New York Lawmakers Brush Aside Reproductive Rights—Again

The fact that these reproductive health proposals failed is, perhaps, not surprising to political insiders familiar with the dysfunction in Albany, but we should all be angry.

Hey, Atlantic, Hiring a (Horrible) White Man for ‘Diversity’ Is Gaslighting 101 (Updated)

Jenn Stanley

The Atlantic editor-in-chief defended hiring a conservative columnist who once said women should executed for having abortions and who also likened a Black child to a primate. Because we need to hear angry white male rants more than the mainstream media wants real diversity.

[Photo: An Asian patient speaks with a doctor]

Missouri’s Quiet, Racist Battle to Take Reproductive Rights From Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

Sung Yeon Choimorrow

Sex-selective abortion bans are racist, dangerous, and have no place in our society, so we have to keep fighting them wherever they are introduced.

[Photo: Attorney Jared Woodfill (L) speaks to the media alongside client David Daleiden]

Supreme Court Deals Latest Blow to Architects of Planned Parenthood Smear Campaign

Imani Gandy

Those at the head of the discredited anti-choice campaign have tried for years to release surreptitiously recorded video from a National Abortion Federation private event.

‘Only God Can Judge’: Why My Religion Supports—and Doesn’t Hinder—My Ability to Provide Health Care

Dr. Terez Yonan

It is not my place to justify why someone may need, for example, contraception or abortion; I only need to provide them access to such services.

[Photo: A pregnant person lies on a bed in a hospital while attached to a cardiotocography sensor.

New York Lawmakers: No Money to Address Maternal Mortality

Auditi Guha

Sixty-seven percent of people who suffer maternal death are on Medicaid, while Black women die due to pregnancy at a rate almost four times higher than their white counterparts.

[Photo: a person filling out a form with a pen]

Gavel Drop: States Cry Foul About Proposed Census Citizenship Question

Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

And in other news, did Facebook exclude women and families from seeing certain types of housing ads? Advocates say yes—and that it's illegal.

My Abortion Brought Me Closer to God

Kristine A. Kippins

Home from college for Easter, I had to go to church with my family—which I had feared doing ever since having an abortion.

Advocates Say Indiana’s New Abortion Reporting Law Could Further Stigmatize Abortion Care (Updated)

Teddy Wilson

Reproductive rights advocates raised concerns about the further stigmatization of abortion care, and the impact the law could have on pregnant people who are diagnosed with mental illness.

[Photo: A happy doctor speaks with a patient]

New Report Reaffirms Safety of Medication Abortion Drug

Nicole Knight

Abortion providers had hailed the revised label for Mifeprex as affirming a protocol they said they'd found safe and effective in practice.

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