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“The fear and the panic is palpable for people who are in danger of losing their power, losing their water, losing other utilities” due to unpaid fines tacked onto their bills by the city, said one attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights.
South Dakota GOP lawmakers fast-tracked legislation that would codify the use of police as private security for corporations building a vast oil pipeline.
U.S. officials have reportedly been quietly building an international anti-choice coalition to oppose access to abortion care and reproductive health services worldwide during this week’s United Nations proceedings.
Anti-choice commissioners in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, have vowed to use zoning alterations to stop a new clinic from offering surgical abortions.
Maine Democrats are pushing legislation to allow qualified advanced practice clinicians such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives to provide abortions.
Sure, Democrats stood against the Ohio GOP's total abortion ban, but they fell for an anti-choice resolution that conflates abortion care with infanticide.
Let’s be clear: Blocking universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including safe abortion, is an attack on democracy.
In a one-page order issued Wednesday, the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upped the ante in the fight over abortion rights in the courts.
Ryan Magers is suing the Alabama Women's Center for wrongful death because his girlfriend, who was 16 at the time, got an abortion—with the consent of her parents—against Magers's wishes. How is this even possible? And how does this case fit into the ongoing anti-choice campaign for "fetal personhood?" Boom! Lawyered hosts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo have those answers and more.
Over a ten-month period, Rewire.News partnered with Latino USA to dig into the case of one woman's alleged sexual abuse. What we learned through a FOIA request raised questions about internal investigations at immigration facilities and the safety of thousands of detained immigrants.
Many of the poorest and sickest patients end up at public hospitals when their pregnancies go wrong. But little-known laws leave people in need with nowhere to turn.
“Even if we give this detention center the benefit of the doubt and say they had good intentions, it’s important that the American public not underestimate how traumatizing these facilities are."
Our focus should be on the capture of the debate over U.S.-Israeli relations by a dominant narrative in which a single set of authorities (both political and religious) claims exclusive access to a rich and fluid set of political and religious traditions.
Even as advocates point to growing Islamophobia as the cause of the attack, the larger issue seems to be white Christian nationalism.
Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.
Texas Republicans' vast regulatory scheme for abortion providers stands in stark contrast to the almost total lack of oversight for anti-choice pregnancy clinics.
Some of my favorites so far include The World Unseen and An Ocean of Minutes.
"We show up every day for our patients because we know that when people are able to make their own decisions about if, when, and how they create families, we build stronger, healthier, and happier communities," said one development director of an abortion clinic.
Jherane Patmore founded an online site that shares stories of people who've had abortions in the Caribbean nation, where there's an ongoing debate about its abortion ban.
Firing off some tweets, circulating petitions, giving speeches, and raising awareness about various issues is a perfectly admirable and safe endeavor. But if you really want to help LGBTQ people, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, and everyone who lives in the intersections of those identities, we need you to do more.
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Ralph Northam has refused to resign despite growing calls for him to step down. Now, some say, his aides are engaged in a whisper campaign against Justin Fairfax, his Black successor.
Republicans' total abortion bans, supported by anti-choice Democratic lawmakers, keep running into legal roadblocks.
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