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Gavel Drop: It’s Now a Waiting Game in Texas ‘Fetal Burial’ Legal Showdown

In other news, the U.S. Senate is getting around to confirming nominees for key Justice Department and appellate posts. And we wish it hadn't.

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Turning Teachers Into Snitches: Ohio Bill Could Police All Children

Prince Shakur

A new bill proposed in Ohio could empower adults to report children who don’t fit adults’ ideas of gender norms, whether the young people are trans or not.

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When Our Rights Are Under Attack, We Must Fight to Preserve All Choices—Including the Choice to Parent

Natasha Vianna

Right now, in an environment where our options are dwindling, it cannot feel like we are being marginalized by our own peers too.

[Photo: Gov. Mary Fallin participates in a discussion with other people]

Oklahoma Has a New Law Banning the Shackling of Pregnant Women. Will It Make a Difference?

Kristi Eaton

One woman who was shackled during labor while incarcerated worried that officers may not be held accountable when it came to the new law. "They just don’t always follow [the rules] and they don’t view you as a person,” she said.

Twerking While Pregnant: Joie Chavis Is Not Going to ‘Shake That Baby Out’

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

When the choreographer posted her response to a dance challenge online, social media critics accused her of jeopardizing her pregnancy. They need to get a grip.

[Photo: Protesters hold signs up in support of birth control]

Trump-Appointed Judge OKs Administration’s Attack on Family Planning Funding

Jessica Mason Pieklo & This Week in Sex: Ohio Lawmakers Want to Out Kids for (What They Think Are) Hints of Being Trans

“The Trump-Pence administration is trying to impose its ideology on people—no matter how many it hurts.”

On ‘Girls Like Me’ and Queering YA Books: A Q&A With Author Nina Packebush

Gloria Malone

A former pregnant and parenting young person, Packebush spoke with Rewire.News about the influences on her debut young adult novel, including real-world hardships and the communities that sustain queer youth.

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Black Women’s Abortions Are Not ‘Black-on-Black Crime’

Yamani Hernandez

Why is it so offensive to imagine that every Black woman in America may not have the desire or means to have or expand their family?

[Photo: A couple sleeps on the couch with their child]

Behind the Friendly Faces: Big Ocean Women Are Working to Write ‘Nontraditional’ Families Out of Existence at the UN

Cole Parke

For the last four years, the Big Ocean Women have focused on bringing maternal feminism to the United Nations, aiming to advance a "family rights" agenda that leaves LGBTQ people out.

This Week in Sex: Ohio Lawmakers Want to Out Kids for (What They Think Are) Hints of Being Trans

Martha Kempner

So are teachers going to be reporting transgender children, girls with short haircuts, students who want gender-neutral anything, or your average nonconformist teen to their parents?

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