Attitudes about sex have come to signal a person or group’s attitudes about modernity itself. Arguments about gender roles, birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ rights have become central to the religious and political identity of American Christians.
While the Republican candidate's connection to North Carolina's bathroom discrimination law will be a deciding factor for some voters, access to health care is at the center of the special election.
Two of the organizations receiving federal teen pregnancy prevention funding promote medication abortion reversal, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists considers "unproven and unethical.”
As the administration starts enforcing its Title X rule, clinics that provide reproductive health care to low-income people will start refusing the federal family planning dollars.
The blueprint would remove discriminatory barriers to health care, address the health needs of immigrants, and support research that advances sexual health, rights, and justice, among other policy goals.
Many people, particularly from a younger generation, are coming to this issue from a different perspective than earlier generations. It’s no longer a moral judgment about sex work; it’s a justice issue based on intersectional identities.
A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals paves the way for the administration to begin enforcing catastrophic changes to the federal family planning program.
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