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In This Small Georgia City, an Unpaid Court Fine Can Get Your Utilities Cut Off

“The fear and the panic is palpable for people who are in danger of losing their power, losing their water, losing other utilities” due to unpaid fines tacked onto their bills by the city, said one attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights.

[Photo: A young, Black woman looks at her pregnancy test in shock.]

This Week in Sex: New Clue Into Why Some Birth Control Users Get Pregnant

Martha Kempner

Hint: It might not be their fault.

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Less Than a Third of Catholic Hospital Websites Note Religion’s Impact on Reproductive Care

Amy Littlefield

One possible reason is that Catholic facilities don’t want the religious restrictions known to patients.

[Photo: United States President Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence looking on, delivers the State of the Union address.]

Why Trump’s Upcoming Budget Spells Bad News for Women and Families

Melissa Boteach

This budget will likely be a multi-pronged attack on their economic security, health, and safety.

[Photo: A Black father holds and consoles his young, crying son.]

‘It’s Horrifying to Think About’: Migrants and Their Young Children Are Held in Isolation at Family Detention Centers

Tina Vasquez

“Even if we give this detention center the benefit of the doubt and say they had good intentions, it’s important that the American public not underestimate how traumatizing these facilities are."

[Photo: A group of actors, among them three Black women, perform a scene from the play Behind the Sheet.]

Inspired by History, a Play Calls Us to Heed Enslaved Women’s Work—and Pain

Laura Newman

Charly Evon Simpson's play reframes one of medicine's most wrenching origin stories: how the father of modern gynecology operated on enslaved women and used them as his nurse assistants.

[Photo: A migrant mother in detention pushes her child in a stroller.]

ICE Releases 15 Babies Detained With Mothers Seeking Asylum

Renée Feltz

One advocate said she was concerned that ICE would not have responded without a team of advocates "on the ground in Dilley."

[Photo: Pro-choice activists, politicians and other protestors gather for a news conference and demonstration against the gag rule.]

Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ to Begin in 60 Days as Democrats Question Policy’s Legality

Ally Boguhn

Reproductive health and rights advocates have already moved to ensure the domestic gag rule is dead on arrival.

[Photo: Colorado State Representative Perry Buck speaks during a hearing.]

Colorado Republican Doesn’t Want Kids to Know About Consent

Jason Salzman

Conservatives are fighting a comprehensive sex ed bill, as one GOP lawmaker said her constituents "don't want to be told" what consent means in sexual relationships.

[Photo: A black and white portrait of Marie Cochran looking directly at the camera.]

I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia

Marie T. Cochran & I Pledge Allegiance to Affrilachia

I am a Black Southerner and my experience, though it defies the white hillbilly stereotype, is assuredly Appalachian.

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