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[Photo: Activists rally against the Trump administration's immigration policies outside the New York City ICE offices.]

#AbolishICE Is Not a Slogan, It’s a Call to Action

Joseph Flores

#AbolishICE is a call to action to individuals and local communities to engage in this transformation and bring about a better future for immigrants and current citizens alike. Here's how you can help.

[photo: a young man gets blood taken in a Planned Parenthood in Florida.]

Amid Rising STD Rates in the US, Cost Barriers Stymie Testing and Screening

Auditi Guha

Health-care clinics may not be able to provide comprehensive care and reduced costs should the Trump administration implement proposed changes to Title X.

Planned Parenthood Names Dr. Leana Wen Its President

Katelyn Burns

A former Planned Parenthood patient, Wen said she understands the importance of fighting for access to quality reproductive health care.

Manitoba Indigenous Doula Initiative Empowers Women, Helps Keep Kids Out of Welfare System

Anna Kusmer

"Indigenous women are beautiful and powerful and resilient. They are worthy, and they deserve to be moms to their children."

[Photo: Older woman with accusing face holds condom, and teenage girl rolls eyes, looking frustrated.]

Why Parents Fear ‘The Talk’ and What Kids Want Out of It

Steph Auteri

Two recent studies find that parents are afraid of messing up, but teens want guidance and frank information about sex.

Iliza Shlesinger May Call Her Comedy ‘Evolved,’ But Her New Special Suggests Otherwise

Cinnamon Janzer

Although Shlesinger represents herself as a millennial, her viewpoints are certainly not representative of everyone in her generation.

[photo: Serena Williams covers her eyes after losing the U.S. Open.]

In U.S. Open Debacle, Serena’s Unrivaled Intensity and the Universal Messiness of Life

Ed Pavlić

Serena Williams' public achievements and struggles—often happening within minutes of each other—have shown us what it looks like to try, fail, win, slide, fall, lose, levitate, and come back down to Earth.

[PHOTO: A Black man wearing a suit and a necklace with a cross holds a microphone before a podium reading

Aretha’s Funeral and the White Supremacist Imagination

Toni M. Bond

Rev. Jasper Williams Jr. spewed pompous, bombastic white supremacy rhetoric about Black women’s supposed failures at raising their children, especially Black boys—though Aretha herself was a single mother.

[Photo: A sign in front of the Supreme Court reading

We Should Be Celebrating an Abortion Rights Anniversary. Instead, We Fear for Our Future.

Amy Hagstrom Miller

If Kavanaugh is confirmed as our next Supreme Court justice, the crisis won’t just be in some states. It will become a nationwide problem.

[PHOTO: Manicured hands hold a pink smartphone.]

The FDA Approved a Digital Birth Control Method. Should There Be an App for That?

Martha Kempner

You'll likely do more work than your smartphone with the new Natural Cycles app.

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