Special Report: Covid-19

Special Report: Covid-19

During a global pandemic, the need for accurate, timely information about reproductive and sexual health-care issues, including abortion care and birth control access, is more vital than ever.

Editor’s Note: How COVID-19 Has Upended Our Lives

Jessica Mason Pieklo

We take a look back at the year of COVID-19 and its impact on abortion, sex, power, and parenthood.

Our Wildest Memories of the Trump Era

Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Covering the Supreme Court these last four years has been a real roller coaster.

Could the Pandemic Change How the Country Handles Childbirth?

Melissa Anders

Amid fears of COVID-19, birthing centers have been filling a critical need for community-based care.

Photo of clinic escort volunteers wearing pink vests standing outside of the Planned Parenthood building in New York City

COVID-19 Strained Public Health Systems. In Mississippi, Health Officials Made It Worse.

Erica Hensley

Some states used a rare loophole to divert family planning funds into the pandemic response, but the cuts were especially deep in Mississippi.

Photo of the exterior of the Beta Theta Pi house near Columbia University

Greek Life Is Even More of a Public Health Threat During COVID-19

Julia Métraux & Katherine Li

Potential superspreader events like fraternity parties and a return to in-person classes put chronically ill and disabled college students more at risk.

Photo of Black woman and her kid at the doctor's office

How Mississippi Leveraged the Pandemic to Further Decimate Reproductive Health Access

Erica Hensley

Mississippi diverted federal funds for family planning into the state's pandemic response, leaving clinics without staff and patients without health care.

Graphic illustration of a hand holding deck of cards and cards up a sleeve that reads voting rights and marriage equality

Editor’s Note: A Power Grab for All Your Rights

Jessica Mason Pieklo

What's at stake at the Supreme Court starts with abortion—and ends with voting rights, marriage equality, and so much more.

Photo of a sign that reads safety guidelines wear your mask at all times

Massachusetts Won’t Issue a Mask Mandate for Schools

Rewire News Group Staff

Expect to see conservative lawmakers seizing another opportunity to make this public health crisis about “personal freedoms."

[PHOTO: Baby with eyes closed being fed a bottle of milk]

First I Chose Abortion. Then I Chose Motherhood.

Cynthia Gutierrez

I didn’t always want to be a mother. It’s a truth I don’t feel like I need to continue to hide.

[PHOTO: Pregnant person lays hand on top of her pregnant belly while doctor takes blood pressure]

I Gave Birth Alone During the Pandemic

Victoria Yoffie

During a time of isolation at the height of vulnerability and panic, my providers dismissed my concerns about my physical state during recovery.

The Devaluation of Black Women in Life and in Death

Jallicia Jolly

The maternal health crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have reinforced the silencing of Black women’s pain—by the very people whose jobs it is to provide care.

2020: The Year Republicans Wanted You to Just Die Already

Imani Gandy

And if you're a Black or brown person, well, we're screwed.

[PHOTO: Back of woman sitting behind a laptop]

What Sex Work in the Time of COVID-19 Looks Like

Shreya Bansal

Sex workers are still doing in-person work despite the risks—and relying on their tight-knit community more than ever to survive.

Special Report: Covid-19

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