Parenthood Archives

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

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 & This Week in Sex: That Eggplant Emoji Is Now a Cutesy Vibrator

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.

[Photo: Evelyn Hernández Cruz's family members hug her as she is released from prison.]

Woman Detained After Obstetric Complications Released From Prison in El Salvador

Kathy Bougher

“In 2019 we shouldn’t be fighting for the presumption of innocence when a woman loses a pregnancy."

[Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer push an immigrant into an unmarked car after staging a raid at their home.]

No End in Sight for ‘Retaliatory Immigration Raids’ in North Carolina

Tina Vasquez

"We cannot stop ICE from operating in our cities, but we can and must speak out against these raids which destabilize neighborhoods, traumatize children, hurt many innocent people, and create distrust of law enforcement," the mayors of seven North Carolina cities hard-hit by ICE agents said in a joint statement Thursday.