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Fighting for the Future of Our Planet Is Reproductive Justice

The key to ending climate change and other forms of environmental destruction is contingent on dismantling white supremacy.

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A Miscarrying Woman Nearly Died After a Catholic Hospital Sent Her Home Three Times

Amy Littlefield

Washington lawmakers have enacted some of the country’s most progressive policies to protect reproductive health care. But these measures have run up against the state’s high concentration of religious facilities.

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Administration Argues the Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Isn’t a Gag Rule at Ninth Circuit Hearing

Imani Gandy

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan argued at Monday's hearing that referrals for abortion are permitted under Trump's Title X rule if medically necessary. The purpose of the law, Mooppan said, is to ensure that abortion does not become a method of family planning.

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Women’s Empowerment—Not Population Control—Is Key to Combating Climate Change

Osub Ahmed

It is well-documented that when women are empowered, the planet benefits.

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Ninth Circuit to Hear Arguments on Trump’s Domestic ‘Gag Rule’

Imani Gandy

The court could rule in the administration’s favor based on a 1991 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld nearly identical changes to the Title X program.

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Conservatives Say They Want to End Abortions. The ‘Gag Rule’ Will Do the Opposite.

Ellen Friedrichs

Abortion rates have been on the decline in the United States since the 1980s, due in large part to an increase in the use of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, according to new research.

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Smoke and Mirrors: Ivanka Trump’s Trip to Latin America and the Global ‘Gag Rule’

Beirne Roose-Snyder & This App Could Help Fill Health-Care Gaps Created by Trump’s Title X ‘Gag Rule’

If Ivanka were serious about women’s economic empowerment, she would be actively advocating for legislation like the Global HER Act, which would permanently repeal the global gag rule.

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More Books I Loved That Will Carry You Into the Fall

Victoria Law

My favorites include With the Fire on High, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and The Satapur Moonstone.

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‘We Are Headed Toward a Public Health Crisis’: Title X Clinics Grapple With Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’

Erin Heger

Family planning officials in states with anti-choice restrictions see the new Title X rules as yet another barrier to health care for people with low incomes.

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This App Could Help Fill Health-Care Gaps Created by Trump’s Title X ‘Gag Rule’

Dennis Carter

Planned Parenthood is expanding availability of its Direct app, which can be used to order birth control pills for home delivery in some states.

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