Abortion Archives

Abstinence-Only Advocate Assumes Control of Family Planning Funds Amid Latest Reproductive Health War

Congressional Republicans could further empower Trump official Valerie Huber to disregard the Obama-era emphasis on highly effective forms of contraception and turn the nation's affordable birth control program into a bastion of abstinence and natural family planning.

[Photo: State Sen. Joseph Uecker (R-14) speaks to the media.]

Ohio Tried to Mandate Fetal Burial 30 Years Ago. Now, Other States Are Joining In.

Aliya Khan

Fetal disposal laws attempt to make a distinction between fetal remains and other medical waste, which creates unnecessary and onerous financial and logistical barriers for clinics and physicians.

[Photo: A police officer stands guard outside Planned Parenthood in New York City.]

Counter-Protesting at Abortion Clinics Is Actually Counterproductive

Elyse Hughes

For every additional body standing outside, it is that much more difficult for our staff members and trained escorts to ensure a basic right to health care.

[Photo: Gov. Jay Inslee sits forward while listening to a speaker at an event.]

Here’s What Washington State’s New Democratic Majority Has Done in 2018

Nicole Knight & Planned Parenthood’s $20 Million Midterm Strategy Designed to Halt GOP’s ‘Unprecedented Assault’ on Reproductive Rights

“Elections matter. It’s such a vindicating feeling; it underscores just how important it is when people get up, and stand up, and take action."

She Won’t ‘Accept a Label’ on Abortion, But This Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate Engineered Planned Parenthood’s Defunding

Jason Salzman

Court documents uncovered by Rewire.News show that Cynthia Coffman spearheaded a successful effort 17 years ago to strip Planned Parenthood of state funds for its non-abortion family planning services.

[Photo: Students participate in a protest against gun violence outside the White House in D.C.]

What If Buying a Gun Were Like Getting an Abortion?

T.S. Mendola

It’s worth asking: What would a world look like where “pro-life” activists were as rabidly committed to protecting schoolchildren as they are to defending blastocysts?