A ruling Wednesday that a Louisiana provision requiring abortion providers to obtain hospital admitting privileges can take effect comes just one week before the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of a similar Texas provision.
Rewire delves into the emerging birth justice movement and some of the historic and contemporary examples of how Black women and women of color, as well as trans and gender nonconforming people, have fought to preserve pregnancy and childbirth as a safe and sacred experience.
The Zika virus, its potential link to microcephaly and other complications, and the inadequate government responses to it so far all bring into sharper focus the threats girls and women already face in the country.
A brief filed on behalf of individuals affected by efforts to block the contraception benefit in the Affordable Care Act details what's at stake should the Supreme Court rule against the Obama administration's religious accommodation.
Immigration was a major focus during MSNBC and Telemundo’s Democratic town hall event in Las Vegas on Thursday, and those most affected by immigration policies were able to ask former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) some of the questions.
A clinic that has provided abortion services in New Orleans for nearly decades closed its doors this week, leaving pregnant people in the state with one less option for reproductive health care.
Pope Francis during a press conference Thursday said that the use of modern birth control ("artificial contraception" in church parlance) may be permitted in exceptional circumstances.
Advocates say the bill’s language is “blatantly discriminatory” toward pregnant people, and will deter them from seeking prenatal care and drug treatment.
The state's GOP legislators have used the alleged attack as a way to push radical anti-choice measures that could effectively end legal abortion in Colorado.
