Two victories in one day: A federal jury in Tennessee affirms that shackling during labor violates women's rights, and the Virginia Department of Corrections announces that it will no longer engage in the practice.
The State of Kansas has a health care crisis that it should be addressing, but instead the Brownback administration is a little tied up restricting women's access to low cost birth control and abortion care.
In 2002, Alyne da Silva Pimentel, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died after being denied basic medical care to address complications in her pregnancy. Her death might be like any one of the other hundreds of thousands of women who die of complications of pregnancy or unsafe abortion each year worldwide, but for one thing: It was taken to court.
What are the facts on population, consumption, and reproductive health? Here they are "by the numbers," including who is using what in terms of energy and climate change; environment; reproductive health, and the status of girls and women.
A bill to ensure that sexual assault survivors don't get billed for the kits used to collect forensic evidence overwhelmingly passed the state legislature, but Governor Chris Christie seems slow to sign it.
