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Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule Will Silence, Shame, and Stigmatize Women

Anu Kumar

The domestic and global gag rules stigmatize a simple medical procedure by disconnecting it from other health care services and by forcing doctors not to offer women the whole array or reproductive options available to them.

Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Target Planned Parenthood—Along With Low-Income Women’s Access to Health Care (Updated)

Ally Boguhn

Title X provides family planning services to nearly 4 million patients with low incomes in the United States, many of whom are people of color who face systemic barriers to health-care access.

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Legislative Lowlights: Ohio GOP Seeks an ‘Abortion-Free Society’

Brie Shea

And Republican lawmakers in Kansas would cancel their whole telemedicine law if they can't keep a ban on abortion in it. Priorities!

[Photo: Woman drinks a glass of water while taking a birth control pill]

This Week in Sex: Women in U.S. Having Far Fewer Babies

Martha Kempner

Also, Trump apparently doesn’t know the difference between HIV and HPV, and the Argentina soccer team gets a “lesson” in how to pick up Russian women.

‘Black-ish,’ Cliff Huxtable, and Me: The Problem of TV’s Cruel-to-Be-Kind Black Father

Kieran Scarlett

These seminal TV shows uncritically depict Black fathers' often caustic “coaching” to prepare their sons for an inhospitable world. I know, from my own family, that cruelty isn't the way to make a man.

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The Curious Case of the Coroner, the Telltale Sewer, and DNA Testing of Fetal Remains

Farah Diaz-Tello

New technology, coroners like the Georgia one who is trying to ID fetal remains found in the sewer, and like-minded prosecutors mean that people's plumbing might one day tell whether they had a miscarriage—and open them up to law-enforcement scrutiny.

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South Carolina Legislators Take on Pregnancy Discrimination (Yes, It’s Still a Thing)

Bryce Covert

If Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signs the Pregnancy Accommodations Act into law, South Carolina will become the 24th state to require employers offer reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers.

[Photo: Black pregnant person stressed in bed]

How Better Postpartum Care Could Help U.S. Mothers Thrive

Kimberly Lawson

"It wasn't what I imagined pregnancy or childbirth was going to be," Elisha Covington told Rewire.News.

Alejandra Pablos, Asylum Seeker and Reproductive Justice Advocate, Speaks Out

Tina Vasquez

"We need to make sure that vulnerable people aren’t even near the police and if the police want to arrest or detain a vulnerable person, the whole crowd needs to go," Alejandra Pablos told Rewire.News during a recent interview. "They can’t arrest all of us."

[Photo: Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) listens to testimony during a hearing]

212 Members of Congress Just Told Trump: Don’t Mess With Family Planning Funding

Ally Boguhn

Congressional lawmakers wrote in their letters that conservatives have been transparent about their endgame in plowing ahead with restrictions on Title X funds: to end funding to Planned Parenthood.

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