Officials from California Attorney General Kamala Harris' office reportedly executed a search of anti-choice activist David Daleiden's home late Tuesday. The search appears to be connected with an investigation into whether Daleiden violated California law when he and associates surreptitiously recorded abortion providers in the state.
Mayor James Knowles III says he now has few options before him: either put the property tax measure back on the ballot in August or start cutting public sector jobs and budgets.
The sweeping benefit is the first of its kind in the country, which remains the only industrialized nation not to guarantee paid parental leave to all workers.
A White House spokesperson acknowledged that some funding could be redirected from Ebola funding to address the spread of Zika. “But those funds, those resources would not be sufficient to take on what we believe is a pretty serious threat from the Zika virus,” he said.
Clinton faced criticism after saying that “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights,” during a Sunday appearance on NBC.
No matter how much the anti-choice movement dissembles, there is only one reality: The laws and policies pushed by the movement and the politicians it supports punish women both explicitly and implicitly.
What this situation makes clear is the glaring reality that women's tennis players often don't have institutionalized support or solidarity from their male colleagues.
Medicaid's exclusionary regulations deny many low-income transgender people access to medically necessary health care, advocates say, and cause physical, mental, and economic harm.
As journalist Mary Pember reported for Rewire, “Valentine’s Day has become the official day for Native women to recognize and memorialize the missing and murdered women and girls whom they believe government leaders in the United States and Canada too often ignore.” Here are several of Navajo artist Jolene Yazzie’s photos from the event.
Frustration with the lack of transparency in U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutors’ decision making turns out to be a frequent sentiment among people who have reported a rape or sexual assault in D.C.
Unlike criminal trials, which require the prosecution to prove the defendant’s guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt,” civil trials have a much lower bar, requiring only that a plaintiff persuade a judge or jury that it is more likely than not that the events occurred.
Most people would consider it unusual to pick a corrections facility if they were in the market for a breast exam. But that’s exactly what is suggested by a new website launched last month by 17 of the nation’s most prominent anti-choice groups.
There have been dozens of bills introduced in the past few years to restrict medication abortion access. This year lawmakers have introduced similar bills in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Gay Talese's comments at a recent journalism conference echoed decades of exclusion. That was what the men on stage didn't hear, but we did.
In a phone interview with Rewire, the organizer explained how her experience in ICE custody represents another way that the federal agency operates as a "rogue agency."
In All the Single Ladies, Traister outlines the struggle and the strength of womanhood while demolishing myths, as well as flat-out lies, about the role and prevalence of single women through history.
It’s a timely topic, considering HB 2, the anti-LGBTQ law that bigots in North Carolina passed last week.
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Accused Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear wants to plead "not guilty," and the Colorado Supreme Court wants to know what is in his arrest file.
