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

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

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

“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.

[Photo: A Black protester holds a sign that reads

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?

[Photo: A woman breastfeeds at a protest]

With Breastfeeding in Political Crosshairs, Advocates Must Reach Out Beyond Our Bubble

Ifeyinwa Asiodu

And that means making sure breastfeeding isn't isolated from reproductive justice and health—and that it's not framed as a simple matter of "choice."

[Photo: A stressed patient speaks with a doctor filling out a form]

In West Virginia, Doctors Assumed My Chronic Pain Was Really a Drug Problem

Andrea Fekete

When anyone in my city, specifically someone young and healthy-looking, is lethargic and incoherent, an EMT’s first guess is an heroin overdose.

US Fails to Reunite Detained, Deported Parents With Their Young Children (Updated)

Tina Vasquez

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, who issued the court order requiring separated families be reunited, said in a Tuesday status conference that the deadlines in place are "firm deadlines" and not "aspirational goals."

New York Legislators, Advocates Call Out Trump’s Efforts to Suppress Breastfeeding

Auditi Guha

“We should not be bullying other countries and attempting to water down resolutions that would recognize the importance of breastfeeding for infants and would work against misleading attempts to sell substitutes for a mother’s milk,” said U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney.

[Photo: A 3-week-old child named Jayceanna Charnoski sleeps in her new cradleboard]

Amid Staggering Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates, Native Communities Revive Traditional Concepts of Support

Mary Annette Pember

“They say that historical trauma is in the DNA of Native peoples, but love is in there too. We need to focus on that and bring it to the surface."

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