From all-out efforts to stop Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act to counter-protests against white supremacists, 2017 demonstrated the power of resistance.
Vasquez's supporters in El Salvador and internationally see these events as a referendum on the ability of Salvadoran courts to serve the interests of justice, especially for women living in poverty.
Planned Parenthood has released documents showing that former Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration authorized the health-care organization to provide abortion services at its Louisville clinic.
Many leaders in the movement to outlaw abortion care in the United States continued to support the Republican Senate candidate in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.
When it came to accessing contraception, women I spoke with as part of my research often framed it as a way to prevent abortions rather than preventing pregnancy: a subtle, but important, difference.
“These systems will have even greater financial and political clout and it will become more and more difficult for people to suggest that denying women reproductive health care is not appropriate."
