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[Photo: A collage of President Donald Trump, President George H.W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan side by side.]

Trump’s Family Planning Rules Are Class Warfare. States Are Ready to Stop Them.

Nicole Knight

The Trump rules banning abortion referrals at Title X-funded clinics, similar to a Reagan-era policy, "mandates discrimination" and could meet legal challenges from states.

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Critics of Christian Home Schooling Are Calling for Reform. Here’s Why.

Hannah Brashers

In many states, the lack of government oversight puts children at risk of physical abuse or educational neglect.

[Photo: A variety of dolls of differing abilities, genders and skin tones from Barbie's Fashionista line donning summer apparel. Some of the dolls are shown with adaptive devices.]

All Hail Barbie in a Wheelchair: Pop Culture Meets Disability Awareness

Robyn Powell

And new emojis depicting people with canes and hearing aids are also on their way.

[Photo: Close-up of Black, female doctor's hand measuring blood pressure of a Black patient.]

Racism in Medicine: As Doctors, We Must Do Better

Dr. Zia Okocha

I implore my colleagues to acknowledge the many ways Black bodies have involuntarily contributed to medical advances we take for granted.

[Photo: U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro speaks as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand listens during a news conference.]

‘I Don’t Want People to Feel Like I Did’: How a Family Crisis Turned This Mother and Son Into Activists for Paid Leave

Ellen Bravo

On February 12, Maria and Fidel traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak at a press conference heralding the introduction of the FAMILY Act, a bill to establish a family and medical leave insurance fund so workers could draw wages while caring for a new child or a serious personal or family illness.

[Photo: A young, black girl smells a flower. Her friends talk amongst themselves in the background.]

What We Risk When We Fail to Protect Black Girls

Natasha Crooks & Akilah Wise

Emerging research implicates this systematic lack of protection in the disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Black girls and women.

[Photo: Close up of a Planned Parenthood sign on a building.]

Trump Administration Releases Final Text of Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Restriction on Title X (Updated)

Katelyn Burns & ‘PEN15’ Reminds Us Teen Girls Want to Masturbate Too

Anti-choice officials installed by the Trump administration at HHS have long held the goal of defunding Planned Parenthood, a primary recipient of Title X family planning funding.

[Photo: The lead clinician at a Planned Parenthood clinic talks in one of the clinic rooms.]

What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program

Laura Huss, Katelyn Burns & ‘PEN15’ Reminds Us Teen Girls Want to Masturbate Too

The Trump administration presents a threat to the Title X family planning grant program that hasn’t been seen before.

[Photo: House of Representatives chamber of the Kansas State Capitol.]

Legislative Lowlights: Republicans Use Secular Humanism to Attack LGBTQ Rights

Brie Shea

State-level GOP lawmakers are taking policy advice from an electronic dance music producer who wants to ban same-sex marriage in the United States.

[Photo: Pen15 character Maya practices kissing on a bed post.]

‘PEN15’ Reminds Us Teen Girls Want to Masturbate Too

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Hulu's new series is a much-needed perspective about girls' sexuality that has nothing to do with pregnancy and everything to do with pleasure, particularly masturbation.

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