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[Photo: The United Nation sign in Geneva.]

Trump Administration Fails to Roll Back Support for Landmark Women’s Rights Agreement at United Nations

Katelyn Burns

U.S. officials have reportedly been quietly building an international anti-choice coalition to oppose access to abortion care and reproductive health services worldwide during this week’s United Nations proceedings.

[Photo: President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters.]

We Can’t Let the Trump Administration Dismantle Women’s Rights Around the World

Anu Kumar

Let’s be clear: Blocking universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortion, is an attack on democracy.

Legislative Lowlights: Total Abortion Bans Are Flying Through State Legislatures

Brie Shea

Republicans' total abortion bans, supported by anti-choice Democratic lawmakers, keep running into legal roadblocks.

[Photo: A young, Black woman looks at her pregnancy test in shock.]

This Week in Sex: New Clue Into Why Some Birth Control Users Get Pregnant

Martha Kempner

Hint: It might not be their fault.

[Photo: Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob Duggar speak at the Values Voter Summit.]

The Duggars Helped Overturn LGBTQ Civil Rights in Arkansas. They Still Have a TV Show.

Nico Lang

In late January, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a citywide ordinance in Fayetteville outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, and public accommodations. It was just the latest blow for activists in a battle that began four years ago.

LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem

Sunnivie Brydum

Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.

As UN Considers Status of Women, It’s Time for the Vatican to Take Its Rightful Place

Mary Hunt

It's hard to name a state or religious group that's done more than the Holy See to thwart the spirit and the letter of CSW which affirms that the fundamental freedoms of all women and girls is essential for the achievement of gender equality.

[Photo: Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), looks displeased as he listens during a committee hearing.]

Will Trump’s Next FDA Head Push Anti-Choice Agenda?

Ally Boguhn

“The FDA should be about science and public health, not politics and anti-abortion obstruction."

Legislative Lowlights: Texas GOP Finds New and Inventive Ways to Legalize LGBTQ Discrimination

Brie Shea

Meanwhile, Utah Republicans want to control how educators talk about contraception, and GOP legislators in Oklahoma continue to push the anti-choice myth of abortion "reversal."

[Photo: Julia Beck speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.]

House Republicans Hide Behind ‘Lesbian Radical Feminist’ to Push Anti-Trans Agenda

Heron Greenesmith

Julia Beck has been granted a platform to give the right wing's anti-transgender activism the veneer of bipartisanship.

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