State Sen. Connie M. Leyva will introduce a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations in cases of rape and other sex crimes to afford survivors of assault a chance at seeking justice.
New data shows there has been a 44 percent decrease in the maternal mortality rate worldwide over the last 25 years—but in the United States, along with 12 other countries, maternal mortality rates rose during this period.
Lindsay Ruhr, a graduate student at the University of Missouri, says she will continue her research on the effect of the state's 72-hour forced waiting period for abortions, despite a state senator's pushback.
A Utah judge has ordered an infant girl be taken from lesbian foster parents, saying children in homosexual homes don’t do as well as they do in heterosexual homes, despite volumes of evidence to the contrary.
The Democratic presidential candidate released her platform on veterans' services and health care on Tuesday, highlighting the importance of addressing reproductive care and expanding LGBTQ care.
Colorado voters will decide next year if they want to replace Colorado’s private health insurance industry with a single-payer system, under which the state government would provide health insurance for all residents.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it will ask the Supreme Court to review a federal court ruling against President Obama’s executive order on immigration.
Carly Fiorina used Tuesday's debate to push her plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), claiming that "Obamacare isn't helping anyone," and that it “has to be repealed because it's failing the very people it is intending to help." There’s just one problem: Most of what Fiorina said on this front was completely wrong.
The bills target what anti-choice groups call “dismemberment abortions,” which are actually dilation and evacuation (D and E) procedures. D and E is a common procedure in which a physician dilates a woman’s cervix and removes the fetus using forceps, clamps, or other instruments.
What began in 2012 as a movement of a few hundred fast-food workers demanding decent pay reached a climax yesterday, with both Democratic presidential front-runners tweeting their support for the #FightFor15 protesters who marched in 400 cities, according to some estimates.
