Mid-Atlantic regional grocer and pharmacy chain Harris Teeter is continuing to direct customers to the pharmacy or the customer service desk in order to purchase the emergency contraceptive.
Though the Florida senator has on several occasions broken from the Republican Party to support efforts to combat the virus, his push to respond to the crisis has not included extending abortion care to those who contract Zika and may want to end their pregnancy.
It's no surprise that Texas experienced a recent rise in maternal deaths after its legislators gutted reproductive-health policies. But it's also not a mystery about how to reverse course, and lawmakers can start with Medicaid.
Cultural change requires me and others who benefit from being light-skinned or multiracial to use our privilege to lift up the ways in which our marginalized brothers and sisters are discriminated against by those within, and outside of, their own communities.
Author Jessica Bennett has written an often hilarious contemporary manual to help women combat everyday gender discrimination on the job. But the book falls short in imagining strategies to effect change on a societal level or addressing the needs of women outside the white-collar professions.
A judge ruled Wednesday that Purvi Patel had served enough time in jail for a conviction related to a self-induced abortion. She was released Thursday.
In a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Gloucester County School Board argues federal law gives it the right to discriminate against transgender students.
Movement leaders believe that activists are doing unprecedented work to combat gender and sexuality-based discrimination. Yet they agree that much remains to be done.
“For transgender people there’s all sorts of ways that they take to be their most authentic self, and for me, my journey dictates that I have medical intervention,” Evan Minton, 35, said. “At this point in the path my body is calling out for bottom surgery.”
