An HHS spokesperson confirmed that the agency would be holding listening sessions on fetal tissue research “with various stakeholders e.g. scientists, pro-life groups, ethicists.”
While more progressive members of Congress may not be challenging Nancy Pelosi for speaker, they are making internal moves to fortify their position.
"The damage Scott Lloyd inflicted on the people he was charged to protect, and to the agency itself, will not be easily erased."
Ohio’s bill is part of a trend among GOP state lawmakers trying to pass legislation to challenge Roe v. Wade, creating a case that would allow the Supreme Court to revisit legal protections for abortion care.
Amar Mergensana continued his strike after other detained people ended their protest, telling advocates he would continue to starve himself until "he either died or was released."
Agents of white supremacy count on society’s existing behaviors toward the mentally ill—and by extension, all disabled people—to aid and abet their agenda without anyone taking a closer look.
The thread that led to the success of Jon Tester’s campaign also leads to the continued success of progressive organizations within Montana—a love of place that is deeply rooted in Montana’s stories of our past and our vision for our future.
Starting today USCIS can begin deportation proceedings on victims of trafficking, crime, and domestic violence if their visa petitions have been denied.
In September, journalist Mary Annette Pember visited Madeline Island, the largest of the Apostle Islands located in the Wisconsin area of Lake Superior, to learn more about the Madeline Island Jingle Dress Project ahead of Treaty Day. On that day, real-life jingle dress dancer Fawn Youngbear-Tibbets of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe operated a 12-foot jingle dress […]
Parents and students living in an Ohio school district say that the needs of children with legally recognized disabilities aren't being recognized.
For decades, East Chicago has been home to heavy industry that poisoned the city. But is also home to thousands of people, many of whom have illnesses likely caused by that pollution.
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.
This year’s streamlining process managed to nudge the standards in the direction of less biased coverage of the world’s religions, but much work remains if Texas students are to receive balanced instruction.
Rather than parse the definition of murder, or deconstruct the hearts of people long expecting to die, it seems most appropriate to conclude that murder and suicide occurred on that day.
In focusing on a pastoral response, the GC2 Summit risks replicating many of the same issues of insularity that created the need for #ChurchToo in the first place.
Supporters of the bill argue that paramedics face the same situations as police, but some emergency medical technicians worry about blurring the line between medical care and law enforcement. "[That’s] ... what police are supposed to do—and we’re not.”
You've heard about Michelle Obama's fertility struggles. But it was seeing actress Gabrielle Union's daughter that reignited my desire to help other people of color become parents.
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His legacy is reflected in dozens of characters we’ve grown to know and love, and in the opportunities his work made possible.
When he was Kansas secretary of state, Kobach made disenfranchising voters central to his work. There’s little reason to believe his time at the DOJ would be any different.
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If Ohio's "heartbeat" ban becomes law, it would be the second state this year to enact a near total abortion ban.
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