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‘People Are Hurting’: Why Cori Bush Is Making Another Congressional Run
Cori Bush says she has a “personal connection" to the issues she is advocating for.
Commentary Maternity and Birthing
These Five Provisions Are Necessary in Any Legislation Aimed at Saving Mothers’ Lives
In ‘Highway of Tears,’ a Missed Chance to Hold White Journalists Accountable
Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime
News
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Anti-Choice Lawmakers Make ‘Calculated Push’ to Restrict Medication Abortion
Republican members of Congress continue to push the false narrative that medication abortion—especially through telemedicine methods—is unsafe and poorly regulated.
‘This Fight Has Existential Stakes’: How a Court Ruling Has Thrown Kansas Abortion Laws Into Flux
The Kansas Supreme Court ruling that abortion is a fundamental right has sent anti-choice organizations and lawmakers scrambling.
Did David Daleiden Know He Was Breaking the Law With His Anti-Choice Smear Campaign?
Anti-choice activist David Daleiden seemed to admit in court that he knew a previous attempt to go after Planned Parenthood with allegations of breaking fetal tissue procurement laws had been debunked.
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Jeff Sessions Wants to Be a Senator Again
Jeff Sessions co-sponsored dozens of anti-choice measures during his time in the U.S. Senate. Now he wants to run again.
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Commentary
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What Castro’s People-Focused Platform Brings to the 2020 Race
Julián Castro's campaign speaks to the most marginalized, underrepresented, and disenfranchised voices.
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Analysis
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Trump Administration Backs Off Immigrant Abortion Fight at Supreme Court
It seemed all but certain the Trump administration would take its fight back to the Roberts Court. But the deadline to file a petition came and went without the administration filing one.
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Boom! Lawyered: ‘Abortion Reversal’ Is B.S.
In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo debunk the latest frontier in junk science: "abortion reversal." As more states pass laws forcing doctors to promote this myth, the courts continue to step in and block them. But if more people don't recognize the bad-faith claims underlying "abortion reversal," that could change—and sooner than we might think.
Investigations
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A Miscarrying Woman Nearly Died After a Catholic Hospital Sent Her Home Three Times
Washington lawmakers have enacted some of the country’s most progressive policies to protect reproductive health care. But these measures have run up against the state’s high concentration of religious facilities.
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A Teenager in Mexico Needed an Abortion After Being Raped. Getting One Was Legal, but Nearly Impossible.
Abortion bans throughout Mexico include exceptions for rape. Activists say despite some recent improvements, survivors still confront obstacles to accessing abortion care.
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An Anti-Choice Group Misspent $50,000 on Religious Material. North Carolina Wants to Give It $400,000 More. (Updated)
Amid a budget showdown, legislators have allocated a record amount of at least $2.64 million in state funds to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers in North Carolina.
Why Did a Muslim Civil Rights Group Oppose Democrats’ Plans to Confront White Nationalism?
Though compelling arguments have been made that CVE programs contribute to the marginalization and alienation of the very communities they’re meant to engage, they continue to receive significant funding from major cities, universities, and other institutions.
‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy
Though he's embarked on an apology tour and starred in a documentary examining his mistakes and the damage they've caused, Joshua Harris has yet to face the hard questions about the patriarchal ideology that shaped the purity movement and his own path.
What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?
Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.
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Campaign Week in Review: Here’s How Two 2020 Democrats Incorporated Reproductive Rights and Justice Into Their Platforms
This is hardly the first time Julián Castro has sought to elevate reproductive justice on the campaign trail.
Culture & Conversation
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‘Personhood’ Film Shows the Cost of the Push for Fetal Rights
“If [the personhood movement] succeeds, the people who get pregnant are going to lose their fundamental rights… to privacy, to equality, to due process of law.”
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‘Our Power Is Real’: A Q&A With Lindy West
Rewire.News sat down with West to discuss likability, self-care, social justice, and her new book of essays, The Witches Are Coming.
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Meet the Woman Making It Easier for Trans People Around the Country to Get Hormones
After her challenging road to finding the resources she needed, Erin Reed felt inspired to help others.
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Arkansas Makes Absurd Arguments About Abortion Bans
Attorneys for the state seem to think that calling an abortion ban something other than a ban will somehow fool a court into letting it slide.
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Campaign Week in Review: Pete Buttigieg Opposes the Anti-Choice Helms Amendment
This week, Pete Buttigieg's campaign said he backs ending the anti-choice Helms Amendment, and Sen. Kamala Harris spoke about her plan to safeguard abortion rights.
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- Ohio lawmakers proposed a total ban on abortion. Judges have blocked similar laws. Washington Post
- These cities are standing up for reproductive rights in the age of Trump Quartz
- Will Congress Reaffirm the U.S. Commitment to Reproductive Health and Rights Worldwide? Ms Magazine
- Missouri took ‘extreme actions’ to limit reproductive rights, House panel hears The Guardian
- The American anti-abortion movement is reverberating abroad Quartz
- House Oversight Committee Democrats To Examine Regulation Of Abortion Providers NPR
- These Black Women Are Fighting For Justice In A World Of Biased Algorithms Essence
- Rape Survivors Seeking Asylum Have to Prove the Rape Happened or Be Deported Vice