Our not-so-favorite moments involving some of the candidates for the nation's highest offices include Donald Trump's dating antics and Mike Pence waxing ignorant about sexually transmitted infections. And then there was that Pennsylvania man who worried about what would happen if Hillary Clinton got her period while in the Oval Office.
Gavin Grimm's attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union have argued that his school district's bathroom policy is unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment and a violation of Title IX of the U.S. Education Amendments of 1972, a federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal funding.
A number of women have come forward to allege that Donald Trump treated them in a manner much like he described to Billy Bush in 2005: kissing or touching them without permission. Parents can talk about this news in age-appropriate ways, even without mentioning "rape" when speaking with younger children.
The ACLU said the hospital system’s ban on postpartum tubal ligations violated an Affordable Care Act provision because it discriminates on the basis of sex by “denying women a fundamental component of pregnancy- and childbirth-related care.”
The Midwestern state's governor's contest is between two candidates who say they are "pro-life," and reproductive rights advocates are wondering how closely either will follow in the footsteps of former Gov. Mike Pence.
Catholic health system mergers have alarmed reproductive rights advocates, as these hospitals routinely deny medical care, citing Catholic doctrine as justification.
A preoccupation with purity is not a realistic approach to sexuality, and it does not empower us to make responsible, holistic decisions regarding sex.
Congressional Democrats expressed concern about the findings of a recent American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists study showing that less than half of OB-GYNs believed an IUD could be inserted in a person immediately after giving birth.
Mississippi is one of many states that have sought to block funding for Planned Parenthood since the release of widely discredited videos by the anti-choice front group known as the Center for Medical Progress.
