This week, the United States could learn a lot from a UK town about preventing unintended pregnancies, the United Arab Emirates is mandating that women breastfeed their children for a full two years, and a study looks at sex after breakups among college students.
Anti-choice lawmakers have tried to re-define what qualifies as a "medically necessary" abortion to qualify as Medicaid coverage. A new lawsuit claims that definition unconstitutionally restricts access to reproductive health care for low-income women.
While medical protections for transgender patients may be gradually increasing, many in the trans* community continue to experience disturbing levels of discrimination from health-care providers.
There's a growing conflict between states that recognize a fundamental right to make end-of-life decisions and those that override those wishes only when a person is pregnant.
The ten-point agenda would codify a woman's right to choose an abortion, attempt to reduce gender-based pay discrimination, and strengthen protections for survivors of abuse.
"It’s just a fake front issue to talk about abortion," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said of HR 7, the anti-choice bill passed just hours before Tuesday's State of the Union address. "What they’re really talking about is contraception, family planning, the judgment of women."
Republican state lawmakers have introduced bills that would require admitting privileges at local hospitals for doctors who perform abortions, that would add further requirements to the state's informed consent law, and that would modify the medication abortion law that was ruled unconstitutional by the state supreme court.
