“Rather than being treated with dignity and respect as valuable participants in a ‘mutually rewarding’ cultural exchange program,” the report notes, “many au pairs are treated as underpaid domestic workers, or worse.”
Abortion clinics can offer free pregnancy tests so people can avoid biased counseling elsewhere, and health-care providers need to close gaps in their referral networks and their knowledge about abortion services in their areas.
In her new book, journalist Dawn Raffel tells the little-known story of how a European promoter made baby incubators an attraction at world's fairs and carnivals in the early 1900s—and probably saved thousands of lives.
A growing number of patients have spoken out in recent years about how surgeries, performed when they were too young to understand—much less give consent—have deprived them of sexual pleasure, sterilized them, traumatized them, or altered their bodies to reinforce a gender assignment that is not theirs.
"We will be funding the original grantees for the next year under the previous criteria [set by the Obama administration]," a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told the Hill.
Taking all of the facts in the case as true, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that an on-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a 16-year-old boy, whom the agent gunned down.
"They thought this letter that has no legal standing would scare us into hiding. It's going to take more than that," explained Phillip Agnew, co-director of the Dream Defenders.