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Betsy DeVos’ Sexual Assault Rules Won’t Protect Teens Like Us

If the new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, student survivors will bear the brunt of an education system that is willing to sweep sexual violence under the rug.

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Analysis Law and Policy

You Can’t Try to Kill Students and Expect Them to Be Quiet About It

Lisa Needham

Culture & Conversation Politics

With Kamala Harris as Biden’s Vice Presidential Pick, Our Time Is Now

Alencia Johnson

Commentary What the Crap?!

Planned Parenthood Removes Founder’s Name From Clinic: A GIFsplanation

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More Analysis

New Campus Sexual Assault Rule Only Pretends to Protect Students

Naina Agrawal-Hardin & Jemie Fofanah

Betsy DeVos is creating a system that will leave student survivors without recourse and make campuses less safe.

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Law and Policy

Meet the Judge Who Thinks a Black Man Walking Around Is a Crime

Lisa Needham

Human Rights

As Universities Move Fall Classes Online, Are Disabled Students Being Considered?

Brooke Knisley

Law and Policy

‘Once in a Generation’ Chance for Texas to Move Beyond Abstinence-Only Sex Education

Mary Tuma

More News

Medical Students Can’t Provide Abortions If They Never Learn How

Alys Brooks

Restrictions on training are not unusual, and it can prevent medical professionals from providing good care.

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Family

These Mothers Are Fighting for Their Families by Occupying Vacant Homes

Lizzie Tribone

The demand for shelter is a demand to keep mothers and their children together.

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Abortion

The Next Big Anti-Abortion Fight: Keeping You From Having an Abortion at Home

Marie Solis

Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers view medication abortion as the new frontier of abortion access—and are targeting the FDA’s regulation of abortion pills.

Law and Policy

The Supreme Court Term When Theocracy Won

Lisa Needham

Three decisions suggest that the Christian conservative crusade to blur the lines between democracy and theocracy is bearing fruit.

More Sexual Health

How Teens Can Get Birth Control Without Their Parents Finding Out—Even in a Pandemic

Graci D’Amore

Jane's Due Process helps teens in Texas and beyond access birth control, STI testing and treatment, and other family planning services.

Jillian Goltzman

Contraception

Supreme Court Decision on Birth Control Is a Threat to Women With Chronic Illness

Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania was a callous attack on the health of chronically ill people.

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Contraception

Muslims Have a Right to Contraception. Why Can Evangelical Bosses Take That Away?

Nadiah Mohajir

I want my daughter to know that protecting her religious freedom means protecting her right to access birth control at every stage of her life.

More Culture & Conversation

Exclusive: Meet the Doctor Helping Transform Abortion Care in Alabama

Jessica Mason Pieklo

With Dr. Leah Torres as its new medical director, West Alabama Women's Center will expand its services in a state hostile to abortion rights.

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Media

When You Mock Kanye’s Mental Health, You’re Not Just Mocking Kanye

Vilissa Thompson

The true harm of gossip and speculation about a public figure of this visibility is the way it seeps into the fabric of how we view the people around us with bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.