While India is one of the few countries yet to criminalize marital rape, the high court recently ruled that victims of marital rape are entitled to a safe and legal abortion, establishing in Indian law that non-consensual sex can and does exist among married partners.
This lack of access isn’t just inconvenient — it endangers inmates’ safety.
Five months after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, providers face increased threats and harassment, emotional devastation, and the anguish of having to turn people away from accessing needed care. But they are determined to continue their work.
Plaintiffs in three states are seeking to overturn abortion bans on religious grounds.
Our medical system does not take the pain, discomfort, or autonomy of young women seriously in so many ways, and that’s on display in full force here.
The veritable bible of women's health is expanding its reach for a new era.
In 1962, the Environmental Protection Agency did not yet exist, there was little public awareness about environmental issues, and corporate polluters practiced unfettered use of pesticides with little regulation.
The jury is out on whether coronavirus has spread more widely than it may have if the world were not undergoing climate change. It is not, however, when it comes to a rise in infectious diseases overall.
Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than are white women. The new documentary Aftershock tells the stories of some of those women, and how their families are channeling grief into action.
Progress has been slow and unsteady, but activists are teaming up with elected officials to raise awareness and change laws.
Just as the court has paved the way for states to deny essential reproductive health care, it has also cemented the country’s position as one of the biggest contributors to climate change in the world. The two cases are more connected than you may think.
Advocates in countries that have achieved legalization of abortion in recent years are making it clear that they stand with Americans in efforts to restore reproductive rights and access.
What happens now? Advocates and organizations have been preparing for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
A documentary and a dramatic film give a chilling portrait of the crushing impact of abortion bans — and of the courageous women who provided abortion care in pre-Roe Illinois.
The HPV vaccine will be added to the list of routine free immunizations given to girls in secondary school.
Dspite widespread use among college students, the pill is not the symbol of freedom it was once assumed to be.
In New York State, Roe v. Wade is codified into law. This is what Democrats must move to do federally.
There’s no question abortion rights are in a crisis in the U.S. This year alone, 42 states have introduced at least 536 abortion restrictions, with dozens becoming law. And that’s on top of last year’s devastating record of antiabortion laws passed, including the news-making Texas abortion ban that allows anyone — literally anyone — to sue someone who helps a patient receive an abortion, from the provider to an abortion fund to an Uber driver.
The WHO's new guidelines can serve as an authoritative confirmation for what American reproductive rights activists have always known: abortion is essential healthcare.
In a culture that can see girls as a burden, many women opt to abort their female fetuses — even though it's illegal.
As the world observes the two-year mark of the global pandemic, we take stock of the devastating impact on incarcerated women in the U.S.
In Lebanon, where childbirth care is highly medicalized and dominated by obstetricians in private hospitals, women are often persuaded to have cesarean sections, the revenue for which procedure is key for hospitals struggling to survive amid economic collapse.
About 400 women on average are prosecuted every year in the Andean country, blocking eligible women from accessing safe, timely, and free abortions. Underage girls are not exempt from such criminal prosecution and face sweeping sanctions, from restricted movement to mandatory community service, if convicted.
Amy Coney Barrett and other members of the Supreme Court have shown outrageous disregard for the real impact of pregnancy.
Only one gynecologist serves the 8,000 to 13,000 people of reproductive age who need those services in the municipality of Shuto Orizari in North Macedonia’s capital city, the only municipality with a Roma majority in the country. And as of last month, he’s no longer on duty.