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An Abortion Provider—and Formerly Undocumented Immigrant—Tells Her Story

[Photo: A close-up of a brown woman's eye.]

Jan 18, 2019, 1:27pm Tina Vasquez

"I think I gravitated toward family planning because even as a little kid in Colombia, I saw how unplanned pregnancies derailed people’s lives."

[Photo: Woman looks over her shoulder worriedly as a taxi cab awaits. In the background is a superimposed map of the southwestern USA border with Mexico.]

Culture & Conversation Abortion

When the ‘Back Alley’ Was Safe and South of the Border

Jan 22, 6:45am Lina-Maria Murillo

Culture & Conversation Human Rights

An Interview With Nathan Phillips on the #MAGAYouth Incident

Jan 20, 12:18pm Vincent Schilling

[Photo: A young, migrant woman of color holds a pill in one hand and a water glass in another.]

Analysis Abortion

Self-Induced Abortion’s Risks Could Leave Immigrant Women Choiceless

Jan 17, 3:16pm Tina Vasquez

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Trump Administration Wants New Restriction on Abortion Coverage

Jan 18, 4:09pm Ally Boguhn

The administration acknowledges the rule could increase the out-of-pocket cost of abortion care.

[Photo: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the press.]

Law and Policy

Senate GOP Prioritizes Abortion Funding Restrictions Over Ending Shutdown

Jan 17, 5:43pm Ally Boguhn

The anti-choice bill went nowhere when Senate Republicans failed to get the 60 votes they needed.

[Photo: Representative Dan Lipinski giving an emotive testimony at Capitol Hill.]

Abortion

These Are the Anti-Choice Democrats Speaking at March for Life

Jan 17, 8:25am Ally Boguhn

U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski and state Rep. Katrina Jackson, two anti-choice Democrats, are scheduled to speak at this year's March for Life.

Abortion

Lawsuit: Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Abortion Coverage Ban Is Unconstitutional

Jan 16, 4:28pm Jessica Mason Pieklo

The lawsuit filed Wednesday argues the state's ban on Medicaid funding of abortion care is discriminatory and violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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Washington Is Not the Short-Term Answer to Securing Democracy. Your Local Statehouse Is.

Jan 17, 11:41am

For decades, Republicans have artfully taken over state legislatures and weaponized their control to roll back voting protections.

Robyn Powell

Human Rights

What People With Disabilities Should Expect From the New Congress

Jan 15, 10:15am

Republicans in recent years have threatened nearly every facet of the lives of people with disabilities. Will that change with Democrats in control of the House?

Will Trump Starve SNAP Households to Get His Wall?

Jan 15, 8:49am

Black Men Should Care About Survivors, No Matter How Many White Men Are Accused

Jan 11, 10:39am

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North Carolina Domestic Violence Laws Don’t Protect People in Same-Sex Relationships

Jan 18, 12:12pm Lisa Needham

When one woman tried to obtain an order of protection against her ex-girlfriend, the court turned her down—noting that if she were dating a man, there would be no issue.

[Photo: Anti-choice protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court.]

Abortion

March for Life Speaker Is a Former Abortion Provider Who Calls Herself a ‘Mass Murderer’

Jan 18, 11:55am Ally Boguhn

Law and Policy

The Supreme Court Considers a Case That Could Gut the Equal Pay Act

Jan 18, 9:34am Jessica Mason Pieklo

Law and Policy

‘Feminist’ Groups Teaming Up With Phyllis Schlafly’s Organization to Put Trans Kids’ Safety at Risk

Jan 11, 9:47am Heron Greenesmith

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Multimedia

Comfort Levels: The Story of My Medical Transition

Artist B Hayward reflects on her trials and tribulations navigating a health-care system that is only now becoming trans-aware.

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Day Two of William Barr’s Confirmation Hearings

Jan 16, 3:15pm Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Day One of William Barr’s Confirmation Hearings

Jan 15, 9:07pm Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Podcast

The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Episode One: Investigating Big Horn County

Sep 25, 7:45am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

More Investigations

Meet Christus, the US Catholic Health Chain Restricting Access to Reproductive Care in Mexico

Nov 27, 9:06am Amy Littlefield & Laura Gottesdiener

As Mexico's largest Catholic health-care system, Christus restricts a range of reproductive health services, including contraceptives, sterilization, abortion, and in vitro fertilization.

[Photo: Arrington Payne, wearing an olive shirt, stands next to her brother Arhamas]

Human Rights

Cincinnati Public School Students With Disabilities Are Protected on Paper But Say They’re Treated Poorly in Practice

Sep 19, 11:08am Liz Brazile

Parents and students living in an Ohio school district say that the needs of children with legally recognized disabilities aren't being recognized.

[Photo: Maritza Lopez sits in a recliner, smiling and holding her three dogs.]

Environment

Mike Pence Neglected This Poisoned Indiana City. Now, Residents Fight for Each Other.

Aug 31, 9:32am Amy Littlefield

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.

Religion Dispatches

Politics/Law

The Antichrist Trap: Trump Isn’t the Whole Story

Jan 16, 4:07pm Peter Laarman

Far too many of our self-anointed progressive saviors speak as though Trump’s overthrow will make everything good again. A bargain-priced plastic surgeon might want to convince us that removing a large carbuncle will render our face entirely beautiful, but can that kind of pitch really be trusted?

Culture

Heavenly Bodies Was the Most Popular Exhibit in the History of the Met—Here’s Why That’s a Problem

Jan 11, 4:45pm Liz Bucar

A museum’s charge is to educate, so I'm left wondering whether the curators were afraid of offending their Vatican partners or whether they were simply unwilling to take the religious content seriously.

New Books

‘America First’ and the Origin of the Modern Jewish Conspiracy

Jan 9, 2:23pm Eric C. Miller

Historian Paul Hanebrink discusses the origin and uses of the Judeo-Bolshevik myth as a grand conspiracy that inspired the Holocaust and how crucial parts of it survived under the umbrella of "Judeo-Christian civilization."

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Culture & Conversation

[Photo: Black and white image of a queer couple holding each other. The person on the left has their face cropped, the person on the right is smiling.]

LGBTQ

Ask a Queer Chick: Help! My Parents Won’t Let Me Talk to My Online Girlfriend.

Jan 18, 1:31pm Lindsay King-Miller

Also: Should I break up with my boyfriend and date my lesbian co-worker instead?

LGBTQ

Comfort Levels: The Story of My Medical Transition

Jan 17, 8:33am B Hayward

Artist B Hayward reflects on her trials and tribulations navigating a health-care system that is only now becoming trans-aware.

[Photo: Young black man reading a book entitled 'It Was All A Dream.']

Media

‘It Was All a Dream’ Shows How Black Millennials Are Redefining Success in the Post-Obama Era

Jan 15, 2:30pm Aaron Ross Coleman

"Maybe our mobility shouldn’t always be measured like our White millennial peers,” the author writes. “Maybe it’s measured in joy and pleasure.”

[Photo: Various individuals ranging in size, ability and expression, holding signs as they march in front of the National Mall during the Women's March.]

Analysis

I Can’t Believe It’s 2019 and We’re Still Arguing About the Birth Control Benefit (Updated)

Jan 9, 2:42pm Imani Gandy

Regulations that would undercut the birth control benefit are set to go into effect January 14—but not if a handful of states have anything to say about it in federal court this week.

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