
Jo Yurcaba
Jo Yurcaba is a freelance reporter based in North Carolina. They cover sexual violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and pop culture. Twitter: @JoYurcaba
Jo Yurcaba is a freelance reporter based in North Carolina. They cover sexual violence, LGBTQ+ rights, and pop culture. Twitter: @JoYurcaba
Women do deserve to get the health care they need—but so do trans and nonbinary people.
Add possible infections, misgendering, and bullying to the concerns trans and nonbinary students may face while learning this fall.
The far-reaching impact of people putting off health care, like routine Pap smears, during the pandemic is unclear.
“Breaking into a space that wasn’t built for you is incredibly difficult."
“I think that it is easy if you're looking at the headlines to think that clinics are closed or that courts are closed.”
Reproductive health advocates worry that clinics operated by anti-choice activists could sow confusion among people seeking care during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Republican U.S. Senate legislation is "a vehicle for false narratives and inflammatory language" around later abortions, said Dr. Kristyn Brandi, board chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health.
Criminalizing abortion in El Salvador means people go to prison for miscarrying. Abortion rights advocates fear this could become a reality in the United States.
Some pro-choice advocates worry these bills might be the first in a “wave of bills” focused on the reason someone is getting an abortion.
Crisis pregnancy centers pose a unique threat in states like Ohio, where they outnumber abortion providers.
While the Republican candidate's connection to North Carolina's bathroom discrimination law will be a deciding factor for some voters, access to health care is at the center of the special election.
Doctors “would never base our medical practice on this,” said OB-GYN and public health researcher Dr. Dan Grossman, who received a copy from the legislator after criticizing the bill in a viral Twitter thread.
Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List, has donated $75,000 to Dr. Joan Perry, a Republican candidate in North Carolina’s 3rd District special election.
Medicaid recipients in a number of states will be left without the abortion coverage the law guarantees them unless CMS takes action.
Huber spearheaded the rebranding of abstinence-only sex-ed as “sexual risk avoidance”—and then brought that language into government health policy.
The public thinks criminals deserve the sexual abuse they suffer while incarcerated, and there’s a persistent belief that they do not have rights.