A growing number of patients have spoken out in recent years about how surgeries, performed when they were too young to understand—much less give consent—have deprived them of sexual pleasure, sterilized them, traumatized them, or altered their bodies to reinforce a gender assignment that is not theirs.
The health-care organization had appealed to President Trump's National Labor Relations Board to halt a unionization effort by its workers.
“The greater focus ought to be on what is happening to patient rights and access to health care they need—in that context this clinic closure is pronounced,” said Francie Hunt, executive director Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood.
A patient advocate with Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington told her own personal abortion story and implored audience members to make personal appeals to senators in opposition to Kavanaugh's nomination.
"We are almost like a third world country in one of the most prosperous nations in the world."
Abortion clinics can offer free pregnancy tests so people can avoid biased counseling elsewhere, and health-care providers need to close gaps in their referral networks and their knowledge about abortion services in their areas.
This is no time for smoke and mirrors to cover a shameful history of inaction in a state that was once a national safe haven for people seeking an abortion.
Unions are critical to mobilizing even white working class voters for a progressive agenda. Democrats need to do more to strengthen them.
Calla Hales is the 27-year-old administrator of the busiest abortion clinic in North Carolina, and she's at the end of her rope.
Email and phone records between Bethany Christian Services and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights reveal disarray in handling of separated children.
Six current and former employees of the National Abortion Federation told Rewire.News they experienced sexual harassment at the hands of NAF's security director.
These centers, aimed at convincing "abortion-minded" women to continue their pregnancies, purchase videos from the "Earn While You Learn" program with federal funds intended to address maternal health and infant mortality.
I doubt that Latter-day Saints are any more likely in 2018 to renounce a practice ingrained over lifetimes than they were in 1982.
When the police chief asked whether a requested garbage can would be used for blood, he was informed that it was for Satanists to pick up any litter after the rally.
The 'Dems ignore faith' narrative ignores the rise of the Nones. It's as if it were 1954, and liberals were smarting over getting flanked by Ike on the 'In God We Trust' issue.
Title IX isn't broken, though Trump administration officials and conservatives like to say it is.
In her new book, journalist Dawn Raffel tells the little-known story of how a European promoter made baby incubators an attraction at world's fairs and carnivals in the early 1900s—and probably saved thousands of lives.
Who knew that Beyoncé made a song about miscarriage and Everlast made one about abortion stigma?
I believe chillactivism, or activism while hanging out with friends, might be the antidote to feeling helpless in the face of current events.
If the Supreme Court decides to allow employers to discriminate against transgender people, all federal workplace protections for them could disappear.
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Trump may be colluding with Putin, and may even have committed treason. But the GOP and the Democrats are letting him get away with this murder.
In other not-so-surprising news: Trump wants to shut Omarosa up—and maybe shut her up in jail for disclosing information. Both may be difficult.
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