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Trump’s HHS Reverses Course on Including Hormonal Birth Control in Title X Grants (Updated)

Katelyn Burns

Last year’s Title X funding announcement introduced grant criteria focused on natural family planning.

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I Was Denied Health Care for Months Because of the Gender Marker on One Form

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

This tells me that cis people would rather I languish than be myself.

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Trump Administration Moves to Restrict Birth Control Benefit and Abortion in Post-Midterm Attack

Katelyn Burns

The release of the finalized birth control benefit rules had been anticipated by advocates since news broke last month that finalized versions had been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Where Astrology and Social Justice Meet: A Q&A With Chani Nicholas

Raquel Willis

In a dim, bustling bar at the San Francisco Four Seasons, Nicholas spoke with me about her childhood, her journey to astrology, and how she inspires social justice movements through her work.

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Playing Gay and Playing It Safe: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s’ Straightwashing

Kieran Scarlett

The new biopic of Queen's audacious Freddie Mercury skirts around his sexuality—while straight actors think it's their right to take on LGBTQ roles.

Why White Evangelical Women Aren’t the Swing Voters They Sometimes Appear to Be

Kelsy Burke & Amy McDowell

Even as many white evangelical women speak about traditionally liberal topics, they refuse to openly discuss America’s deep political divides.

This Week in Sex: How a Lesbian Couple Literally Made a Baby Together

Martha Kempner

The new procedure is a cheaper alternative to in vitro fertilization. And in other news, women are applying entrepreneurial know-how to funding fertility treatment.

Catholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)

Patricia Miller

It’s not hard to extend the bishops' logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.

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Scientists Blast Trump’s ‘Absurd’ Anti-Trans Memo

Katelyn Burns & Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

“The proposal is in no way ‘grounded in science’ as the administration claims."

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Five Times ‘American Horror Story’ Was Spot on—or Way off—With Reproductive Horrors

Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Forced commitment to a mental health hospital, rape, denial of abortion, a coat-hanger abortion, a pastor who holds a woman hostage and lets her bleed to death as punishment for an abortion: The FX show has it all.

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