As states move toward ever-more-restrictive abortion regulations, Missouri has really gone over the edge. At a hearing on Tuesday, the state’s health director told lawmakers that he had been tracking the periods of women who’d been to the state’s only Planned Parenthood clinic, in St. Louis.
In a country as staunchly anti-abortion as Argentina, Sunday’s presidential election outcome signals a potential sea change for women’s rights in the notoriously restrictive country.
Of the many topics about which moderators asked the Democratic candidates during the second round of debates on July 30 and 31, two crucial ones were noticeably absent: reproductive and disability rights.
Alicia Garza, the principal and co-founder of the Black Futures Lab, is determined to flip the where candidates talk about Black communities, but don't talk to them—beginning with "the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction."
There is still a considerable disparity between the experiences of people with disabilities and the representation of them in the entertainment industry. CBS recognizes this and is one of the first major networks to commit to taking action to change it.
In a lawsuit filed against US Soccer on International Women's Day in March, 28 members of the US women's national soccer team (USWNT) reported earning 38 percent less than male US soccer players and claimed the pay disparities are unlawful under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII. The Soccer Federation finally agreed to enter mediation with the women's soccer team regarding their lawsuit fighting the team's pay gap.
Five decades after that contentious moment in the fight for equality, it is still legal for employers to fire LGBTQ+ employees just because of their identity in most parts of this country. That may soon finally change.
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.
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.
The media monitoring organization GLAAD recently released the 2019 edition of their Studio Responsibility Index, an annual report that this year found that of 110 films released in 2018, 20 (or 18.2 percent) of them included LGBTQ characters, the second-highest percentage on record. None of these characters, however, were transgender or non-binary.
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last Tuesday, with the aim of closing the gap between existing protections for pregnant workers and discrimination that still persists against them
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.
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.
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.
The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.
The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.
This attack, like almost all mass shootings, was perpetrated by a man.
Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.
Over the past two years, an estimated 30 women have had miscarriages while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to information released by the federal government and published by the Arizona Republic last week.
In recent years, a number of new studies have shed light on the scope and reality of the continuing HIV crisis among Black women in the United States. The high rates of infection have left experts and advocates scrambling to ensure Black women are receiving the medical care they need.
What’s so harmful about the Trump administration’s latest restrictions on reproductive rights health care? A lot, actually.
Camila is the second trans woman reported killed in El Salvador just this month; in fact, she immigrated to the U.S. in the first place because she had received threat. Camila’s murder highlights the deadly impact of American immigration policies on vulnerable populations, especially women and LGTBQ people who migrated to the United States seeking safety.
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?
On Tuesday morning, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court lifted two lower court rulings that had prohibited Trump’s ban on transgender military service members from coming into effect.