Under the guise of religious freedom, the Trump administration is rolling back contraception coverage guaranteed under Obamacare.
While frustrating and dangerous, these constant attacks on women’s bodily autonomy provide all the more reason to support facilities like Planned Parenthood.
With a 237 to 189 vote, a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks in the U.S. was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The oversight of Flint, Michigan, officials caused lead to trickle into the city’s water supply for 18 months from the city’s aging pipes, wreaking havoc on the health and lives of Flint’s citizens.
In 2014, the so-called Islamic State abducted thousands of women and children when they invaded large parts of Iraq and tortured, enslaved, and killed many people affiliated with the Yazidi religious group. In response, in November 2015, the Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights, an Iraq-based organization that helps victims of human rights violations, opened a trauma clinic for women in the Kurdish city of Chamchamal.
Republican lawmakers are trying to rush through another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s their most harmful proposal yet.
As world leaders descend on New York City this week for the United Nations General Assembly, one group has released a report that exposes a frightening lack of government knowledge of how the rights of women are progressing in various countries.
Though substance abuse can affect anyone, members of the LGBTQ community are particularly susceptible because of the unique stresses they often experience in relation to coming out and/or the negative social stigmas surrounding their identities.
Hidden in the House Republican budget bill, to be considered this week, are funding cuts for reproductive health services and new curbs on health care providers.
Women around the world continue to struggle not only with draconian laws that deny them ownership of their own bodies, but also the threat of hard-won rights being rolled back. Here, we take a look at some of the places around the world that are playing the long game for abortion reform.
Chester Bennington, the frontman of Linkin Park, was a rock legend, an important cultural icon, and a man who, like many, suffered from depression. On July 20, the 41-year-old took his own life.
In a primary school classroom, Deepa Das holds back tears as she explains to her 6-year-old daughter why she doesn’t have enough clothes for her. Eight days ago, as heavy monsoon rains lashed the state, Das’ home, which lies in a village behind the school where she is taking shelter, was completely flooded in the space of an hour.
As disability rights advocates are fighting back against Republican attempts to dismantle Medicaid and other support services, women, especially women of color, bring to their activism "unique, comprehensive, lived experience," reports writer Heather Watkins.
The Congressional Budget Office scoring of the Republican Senate health care bill confirms that the proposed law singles out Planned Parenthood for defunding.
Lawmakers in Missouri set the tone for a dark week in health care reform for women. On Tuesday, the House sent a bill to the state Senate that, if passed, will infringe on the rights of women seeking abortions, and hamper the work of abortion providers.
Women have benefitted from the Affordable Care Act, and women have a lot to lose if the new Republican health care bill becomes law.
Last year Sierra Leone seemed on the verge of legalizing abortion for the first time in 150 years. Last-minute intervention by religious leaders derailed the bill, and now the US global gag rule poses an additional obstacle.
With anti-choice politicians emboldened, and hearings for Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee underway, pro-choice activists are preparing for the worst.
With newly emboldened anti-choice legislators poised to pass more and more laws restricting abortion, reproductive rights groups are strengthening coalitions and working together with a new level of energy.