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Will President Biden follow through on his campaign promise and nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposal asks for $20 million in loan repayments and scholarships to future reproductive health-care providers.
Last week, Gov J.B. Pritzker signed legislation taking steps to recognize midwifery as a licensed profession.
Culture & Conversation Health Systems
Rachael Lorenzo talks to Imani Gandy about reproductive coercion, reproductive justice, and running an Indigenous-led abortion fund.
For once, abortion advocates are pushing their own agenda instead of pushing back.
Culture & Conversation Law and Policy
With cocktails and community, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy processed the bleak Supreme Court hearing on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.
North Carolina lawmakers agreed on a state budget with no Medicaid expansion—but over $15 million in funding for deceptive anti-choice pregnancy centers.
Academic freedom doesn't exist for North Dakota universities, at least when it comes to anything remotely related to abortion.
The Ohio bill would ban all abortion, using Texas-style vigilante lawsuits and an unscientific definition of when pregnancy begins.
Wisconsin's Democratic governor vetoed anti-abortion legislation two years ago, but that isn't stopping Republican lawmakers.
Illinois Democrats want to repeal the state's "teen endangerment act" and stop forcing pregnant minors to involve a parent in their abortion.
In Mason, Ohio, the city council is considering an ordinance outlawing abortion—with the help of a Texas anti-abortion group.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Since Texas SB 8 went into effect on September 1, abortion access has been in chaos for Texans—and for patients and providers in surrounding states.
After New Hampshire Republicans stripped funding from the state's affordable reproductive health-care clinics, Biden's new Title X policy offers a lifeline.
Until this year, only eight Black women had been confirmed as federal appellate judges. Since January, President Biden has nominated five more.
Wanting in on the abortion bounty action, a Florida Republican is the first state lawmaker to file a Texas SB 8 copycat bill.
"The rights of those who are seeking abortion services will always be protected here," said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in response to the Texas ban.
Why did Kristi Noem sign an executive order prohibiting telemedicine abortion if South Dakota already prohibits telemedicine abortion? Political optics.
Five new laws will make legal abortion impossible to access in Oklahoma, unless a state court blocks them before November 1.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu calls himself pro-choice, but he wasn't pro-choice enough to veto New Hampshire's first gestational abortion ban.
As Texas Republicans decry mask mandates as infringing on their bodily autonomy, they keep stripping pregnant people of the right to bodily autonomy.
The Fifth Circuit's decision to uphold a Texas ban on a common abortion method is a big deal.
Increasing SNAP benefits will help roughly 13 percent of LGBTQ adults who experience food insecurity—more than twice the rate of non-LGBTQ adults.
Abortion is incredibly safe, and so is telemedicine abortion. A federal judge in Indiana agreed.
Expect to see conservative lawmakers seizing another opportunity to make this public health crisis about “personal freedoms."
Reproductive rights advocates have been fighting for access to over-the-counter birth control for years. Illinois is the latest state to heed their call.
Gov. Edwards could have vetoed bills that force doctors to lie to their patients and make it harder for young people to safely get abortion care. He didn't.
Colorado expanded access to reproductive health care for survivors of sexual violence and undocumented immigrants.
A federal judge blocked an Indiana law that would force abortion providers to lie to patients about the bogus "abortion reversal" myth.
The "lawyers for fetuses" law was blocked by a district court in 2017. The courts are still fighting over it in 2021.
States enacted 90 abortion restrictions in the first six months of 2021, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio signed a state budget that gives $6 million to anti-choice pregnancy centers and targets the state's abortion clinics.
The Boom! Lawyered co-hosts took a hammer to awful anti-choice legislation and quotes.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt spent this spring trying to make legal abortion effectively inaccessible in his state.
Imani Gandy joined the Yo, Is This Racist? co-hosts in a conversation on the long history of Asian and Black communities fighting against white supremacy.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
In this Rewire News Group event, hear from folks on the front lines in Jackson, Mississippi, where the Supreme Court case has shone a spotlight.
Culture & Conversation Law and Policy
The Equality Act would enshrine long-overdue federal protections for LGBTQ people.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
"I didn't actually know that many other people who had abortions," Renee Bracey Sherman said in a conversation on the value of abortion storytelling.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Laws restricting abortion access have an economic cost, and that's part of the fight for reproductive justice and autonomy.
Culture & Conversation Law and Policy
SB 8 would let any random anti-choicer sue abortion providers for damages—as if anti-choice advocates needed any more license to harass health-care workers.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Despite the majority of people supporting abortion, the topic is still described as a polarizing issue.
The 28 laws signed in under one week accounts for 46 percent of the abortion restrictions passed this year, according to a report.
Culture & Conversation Sexual Health
As Black women with endo, even taking a trip to the doctor’s office can lead to emotional anguish. Medical professionals have laughed at our pain.
Culture & Conversation Sexual Health
A study explored the concept of missed period pills, which “bring down” a period when it’s late and someone doesn’t want to be pregnant.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
These leaders are working to dismantle barriers to abortion access in Argentina, Kenya, Mexico, and the Global South.
The Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday puts abortion patients’ health at risk.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
The We'll Hear Arguments podcast takes you inside the Supreme Court during oral arguments.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
In Episode 4 of our podcast We'll Hear Arguments, hosts Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy discuss who has standing to sue in the first place.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Episode 3 of the five-part Rewire News Group podcast We'll Hear Arguments introduces a new player in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade: the state.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
Episode 2 of We'll Hear Arguments dives into the "balancing test" the Supreme Court used to answer this age-old question.