Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last year directed his staff on the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate false claims that Planned Parenthood profited from fetal tissue donations.
“We can’t understand the rise of Trump, or combat the forces he represents, without attention to reproductive politics," explains University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor Laura Briggs in How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.
On this day, let’s praise the great things made possible by birth control, but let’s also not forget that we’re still in the middle of a fight to keep birth control affordable and accessible.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of a California law requiring, among other things, that so-called crisis pregnancy centers disclose to patients when they are unlicensed.
In other news, a California woman's case puts the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to the test, and an appeals court is reviewing Indiana's mandatory ultrasound law.
Republican control of the state senate since 2012 has stood in the way of legislation that would expand access to abortion care and promote wage equality, among other progressive priorities.
While many organizations and individuals have been fighting to protect the health, rights, and identities of youth for decades, it’s clear there’s still a long way to go.
