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Clinics Challenge Tennessee’s ‘Demeaning’ Forced Waiting Period Law

Rachel Wells

While research shows people are certain of their decision to have an abortion, 27 states require abortion care patients to wait before obtaining one.

Trans Women of Color Are Shaping the Future of HIV Advocacy

Octavia Y. Lewis

Trans advocates have forged our own paths and led efforts where there were none. The CDC needs to meet our experts on equal ground and acknowledge this divide that it too has been guilty of perpetuating.

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A Miscarrying Woman Nearly Died After a Catholic Hospital Sent Her Home Three Times

Amy Littlefield

Washington lawmakers have enacted some of the country’s most progressive policies to protect reproductive health care. But these measures have run up against the state’s high concentration of religious facilities.

Should Christians Confess to Plants? A Cranky Meditation

Greg Carey

Our indifference toward plants and animals is reaping a whirlwind of harm in the form of a climate crisis, but since plants are not sentient and don't suffer how do we make sense of what it means to offer confession to plants?

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Anti-LGBTQ Congressman Introduces Anti-Abortion Bill to Protect ‘Unborn Gay Children’

Dennis Carter

"There’s a lot he can do to help LGBTQ individuals .... and all he’s doing here is trying to restrict reproductive autonomy."

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The Trump Administration’s Willful Misinterpretation of UN Policy

Gillian Kane & Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

The U.S. government is attempting to create a groundswell of support within the United Nations for rejecting standard operating language on reproductive rights and sexual health.

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Administration Argues the Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Isn’t a Gag Rule at Ninth Circuit Hearing

Imani Gandy

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan argued at Monday's hearing that referrals for abortion are permitted under Trump's Title X rule if medically necessary. The purpose of the law, Mooppan said, is to ensure that abortion does not become a method of family planning.

[Photo: United States Vice President Mike Pence listens to President Donald Trump speak.]

Would President Pence Be Any Less Dangerous? Indiana Residents Say: Not Likely.

Amy Littlefield

Amid talk of impeachment, what dangers would Mike Pence pose as president? The people best equipped to answer that question are those who lived under his reign of fear when he was governor of Indiana.

[Photo: Group of young women of different races hold up signs about climate change.]

Women’s Empowerment—Not Population Control—Is Key to Combating Climate Change

Osub Ahmed

It is well-documented that when women are empowered, the planet benefits.

Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response

Chrissy Stroop

Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals' love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.

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