The witness had been surreptitiously filmed in 2015 by anti-choice activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt as part of a smear campaign against abortion providers and fetal tissue researchers.
The Kentucky governor accused his Democratic opponent of taking “blood money” from the owners of the state’s last abortion clinic.
Republican lawmakers still hope to gather enough signatures to force a vote on anti-abortion legislation in the House, despite the chamber's pro-choice majority.
David Daleiden faces prison time if a judge greenlights a jury trial based on the footage from his 2015 propaganda videos targeting Planned Parenthood.
Evelyn Hernández is one of dozens of Salvadoran women imprisoned after miscarriages or obstetric emergencies due to the country’s strict abortion ban.
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Though the roots of violence against women are collective, our responses will be different because we are different.
Anti-abortion advocates hope they can get the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to help advance fetal "personhood."
In Chicago, no one within 50 feet of an abortion clinic is allowed to get closer than eight feet to another person. Anti-choice groups have challenged this "bubble zone" ordinance, and the Supreme Court is about to decide whether to hear them out. In this episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy explain what's at stake for clinics, providers, and patients in Chicago and around the country if John Roberts and friends take the case.
Amid a budget showdown, legislators have allocated a record amount of at least $2.64 million in state funds to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers in North Carolina.
A web of state and national groups spent millions of dollars on organizing and lobbying in the states to pass this year’s abortion bans. But where did the money come from to make this all possible?
The barriers and repercussions to reporting both assault and harassment reach far and deep in Native communities; women have been effectively silenced for generations, especially when it comes to reporting their own.
Millions of taxpayers, particularly those fortunate enough to not accrue education debt and those who diligently paid off their debts, reject the idea of taking on the debt of people who consciously entered college with this burden. But structural and moral crises like this one require a legislative approach that no household savings plan or practice offers.
Scathing new reports demonstrate that Jerry Falwell Jr. is unfit to be Liberty University’s president, but while Falwell’s departure is long overdue, it would only represent the removal of one rotten apple, while leaving the tree in place.
After the owner of a wedding hall was caught on tape refusing an interracial couple "because of our Christian race," questions are resurfacing about the possibility that anti-LGBTQ "religious exemptions" might be paving the way for legalized racial discrimination.
Officials in Austin, Texas believe they've found a way around a Republican state law targeting a lease agreement between the city and a Planned Parenthood health center.
At Jane’s Due Process, I hear from teens nationwide experiencing the burden of parental consent laws.
My favorites include With the Fire on High, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and The Satapur Moonstone.
Missouri’s historic battle for abortion rights presaged in important ways where we are today, and what will be required of reproductive rights advocates in the future.
The notion that medication abortion can be reversed has been gathering steam over the last several years, even though there is not a shred of scientific evidence to suggest that abortion reversal is possible.
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