As we seek to understand the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and so many more Black lives, a vital part of this work involves learning about the structural inequalities that disproportionately affect Black communities.
Phexxi is a nonhormonal contraceptive gel that needs to be inserted into the vagina no more than an hour before intercourse.
The pandemic has "really laid bare the fiction" that physical clinics are needed to safely provide abortion services.
Abortion rights opponents have long pushed the reversal of medication abortion as a legitimate procedure. It's not.
The Jazz Birth Center of Manhattan was born out of an urgent need for low-risk pregnant people to have options outside of giving birth in a hospital.
Reproductive health advocates call the Republican legislation even worse than the discriminatory Hyde Amendment, which for decades has eroded low-income people's access to abortion care.
“Curiosity is a normal and great thing,” said sex educator Melissa Pintor Carnagey, “and through curiosity is an opportunity to learn and connect.”
We haven't convinced everyone to wear condoms, but there are certainly lessons to be learned from decades of trying that we can apply to this moment with face masks.
Sex ed is too often not culturally competent for people of color, as it's tailored for white culture. That needs to change.
Culture & Conversation Abortion
In response to a recent Rewire.News piece titled, “Abortion Isn’t Beautiful,” I talked to five people who want to explain how their experience with abortion was beautiful.
This is something worth celebrating—it’s also reproductive justice, actualized.
Disability justice centers the rights and freedoms of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, considering the intersections of all forms of oppression.
Sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice should be at the center of our understandings of our bodies—and discerning how they have been and continue to be oppressed and politicized.
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And what you need to know about abortion and “elective” health care.
Rewire.News shares some of our favorite storylines in recent years that have expanded representation of who gets an abortion and realistically depict the procedure.
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