The College Student Right to Access Act would make sure that once a student has decided to end a pregnancy, they won’t be forced to go off campus to see a provider they don’t know.
Kenyan women and girls rarely get information about abortion at all because our society is heavily influenced by conservative religious beliefs. There is no sex education in the Kenyan education system, and religion seeps into classes like biology; Kenyan students are taught in their schools that abortion is evil and against God’s will.
One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to reinstate and expand the global gag rule. This conservative policy hurts people in developing countries that already have to endure systemic obstacles to access health care.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that includes the renewal of the Hyde Amendment. The amendment denies the use of Medicaid funds for abortion care with only limited exceptions.
Kathryn Kolbert, co-counsel in the landmark Planned Parenthood v. Casey Supreme Court case, gives her perspective on the current push to ban abortion — and what we can do about it.
On June 4, the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America.” 18-year-old Youth Testify leader HK Gray testified at the hearing about the barriers she faced when seeking an abortion in Texas as a minor, including needing a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.
The Trump administration issued another anti-choice policy on Wednesday, limiting federal funding for medical research that involves fetal tissue and canceling a multimillion-dollar contract for a lab that’s using the tissue to combat HIV/AIDS.
If women are going to seek abortion no matter the legal status of abortion in the country they live in, who will illegal abortion hurt the most? The answer can be found in examining how significant a role class plays in a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
Pro-choice religious leaders are an increasingly visible component of the growing movement fighting back against extreme abortion bans.
Pro-choice activists are in mourning this week after the Alabama state legislature passed the country's most restrictive abortion bill and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Thursday.
Congress held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday, the first in 36 years. The development comes amidst a renewed effort on the part of state and federal Democratic legislators to push for the amendment’s ratification.
Referred to as the “mother” or “grandmother” of French New Wave cinema, Varda was a pioneering director who influenced a new generation of filmmakers by making movies with feminist themes.
As lawmakers in many places turn their backs on women, new research shows that employees want companies to take on the fight for their reproductive freedom.
The United Nations passed a watered-down version of a resolution to end sexual violence in war on April 23 after bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to eliminate all references to sexual and reproductive health and protections for gay and transgender victims.
The Trump administration’s latest use of domestic politics to hold international rights hostage will cost women's lives.
In 2019, Uruguay will have presidential elections, and it’s more important than ever that organizations advocating for reproductive rights stick together and continue to keep fighting to educate their society and advocate for a continued cultural shift toward acceptance of women’s reproductive rights.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.
Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.
What’s so harmful about the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on reproductive rights health care? A lot, actually.
This Alabama woman wrote a piece about the late-term abortion she wishes she had. With Donald Trump’s conservative agenda in action, will lawmakers listen to stories like hers?
The government still controls mothers, especially those in marginalized populations, by criminalizing their bodies and the choices they make about them.
A new study shows that depictions of abortion on TV can dispel myths and destigmatize the experience.
According to a new study, there was an encouraging increase in diverse fictional depictions of abortion last year.
A recent Amnesty International report released on December 10, the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, reveals that women, particularly the most marginalized women in the UK, have been disproportionately affected by austerity measures implemented in 2010.
Jair Bolsonaro’s election as Brazil’s president at the end of October, and the threat of far right extremism it represents, comes on the heels of a reinvigorated fight for abortion rights all across Latin America.