Rewire spoke with Madera in September about her motivations for creating the Abortion Diary Podcast, the abortion rituals some have followed, and the effect storytelling can have on policy and culture.
Universities may be hotbeds for youth activism, but they're also places where administrators can use their power to shut down sexual assault investigations. And in other on-campus news, wearing blackface gets a pass at a North Dakota school, and a Virginia professor goes on leave after comparing Black Lives Matter to the Klan.
The law requires the state’s licensed pregnancy-related centers to display a brief statement with a number to call for access to free and low-cost birth control and abortion care.
New research upends a widely held belief in the anti-choice movement that women feel conflicted about abortion care and need state-assisted intervention, including forced waiting periods and mandatory counseling.
"As a student who relies on the Wellness Center for health care, it makes me furious that they’re not providing medically accurate information," Melissa Haggerty, 21, told Rewire.
“Donald Trump's words degraded and insulted women in the most flagrant possible way, and yet Hillary Clinton's policy is to allow the murder of a half a million little tiny women every year," Franks said in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett.
The 2009 ordinance requires a so-called limited-service pregnancy center to post a disclaimer in its waiting room notifying clients that it “does not provide or make referral for abortion or birth-control services.”
“The substantial expense of successfully bringing this fight to the U.S. Supreme Court is just one consequence of Texas’ decision to defend this sham law, which denied women their basic rights and shuttered clinics that are still struggling to reopen,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The center's attorneys “dedicated thousands of hours” to the legal fight against the unconstitutional measures of HB 2.
