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What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program

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Feb 22, 2019, 12:33pm Laura Huss & Katelyn Burns

The Trump administration presents a threat to the family planning grant program that hasn’t been seen before.

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News Abortion

‘Welcome to Colorado, Where You Can Get a Safe, Legal Abortion’

Feb 21, 2:37pm Madeleine Schmidt

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Culture & Conversation Human Rights

‘Honoring Our Monthly Moons’: Some Menstruation Rituals Give Indigenous Women Hope

Feb 20, 10:44am Mary Annette Pember

Analysis Human Rights

Will Presidential Candidates Remember the Voting Power of People With Disabilities?

Feb 20, 1:16pm Robyn Powell

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Trump Administration Releases Final Text of Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Restriction on Title X

Feb 22, 1:57pm Katelyn Burns

Anti-choice officials installed by the Trump administration at HHS have long held the goal of defunding Planned Parenthood, a primary recipient of Title X family planning funding.

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Human Rights

Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like

Feb 20, 5:23pm Dennis Carter

The proposed housing program in Maryland would guard against any form of discrimination in determining who can live in the government-run units.

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Abortion

Vermont Legislators Try to Use ‘Roe’ Legislation as Vehicle for Anti-Choice Measures

Feb 20, 2:52pm Auditi Guha

Legislators proposed several anti-choice amendments in the house judiciary committee's debate on H.57, which would codify abortion rights into state law.

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Law and Policy

Pro-Choice Bills Could Cement Illinois as the Midwest’s Abortion Care Oasis

Feb 19, 12:00pm Erin Heger

Illinois Democrats' pro-choice push could help providers cope with an influx of out-of-state patients by expanding the number of medical professionals who can provide in-clinic abortion services.

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Pelosi Shouldn’t Bring Rubio’s Anti-BDS Measure to the House Floor

Feb 18, 9:05am

After a misinformation campaign waged by Sen. Marco Rubio, Nancy Pelosi should keep anti-boycott language out of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Politics

A Black Congresswoman in Hijab Is a Great Distraction From U.S. Complicity in Abuses Abroad

Feb 15, 9:54am

People in the United States deserve elected officials who will speak out against devastating human rights abuses—especially those funded by U.S. taxpayers.

Elizabeth Warren and Indigenous People’s Erasure in Colonial Narratives

Feb 13, 12:56pm

How Ilhan Omar and Her Critics Can Save America

Feb 11, 4:52pm

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Designed to Fail: Utah Republicans’ Backdoor Repeal of Voter-Approved Medicaid Expansion

Feb 18, 10:17am Adam Searing

Utah lawmakers' repeal of Medicaid expansion is not an attempt to address the state's health-care problem with a good-faith solution.

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LGBTQ

South Dakota’s House Just Passed an Anti-Trans Bill. It Could Be Coming to Your State Next. (Updated)

Feb 15, 11:25am Nico Lang

LGBTQ

In Iowa, Religious Student Groups Get a License to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People

Feb 13, 9:00am Lisa Needham

Human Rights

How the Department of Justice’s New Definition of Intimate Partner Violence Could Leave Victims at Risk

Feb 12, 1:09pm Bethany M (bee) Coston

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Multimedia

Boom! Lawyered: Clarence Thomas Wants to Blow Up Defamation Law

This week, the Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal by Kathrine McKee, a woman who publicly accused Bill Cosby of raping her more than 40 years ago. As part of this decision, Clarence Thomas issued an alarming concurring opinion that may signal the start of a prolonged attack on the First Amendment in the courts.

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: Federal Funding to Discriminate Against LGBTQ and Non-Christian Families?

Feb 14, 1:54pm Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

Comfort Levels: The Story of My Medical Transition

Jan 17, 8:33am B Hayward

Podcast

The Breach—’We Don’t Heal from It.’
Episode Five: The Blackfeet Alternative

Jan 30, 8:35am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

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Investigations

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Health Systems

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.

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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.

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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

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Religious Liberty

Leaked Air Force Legal Opinion Approves Religious Expression

Feb 21, 12:06pm Paul Rosenberg

According to a retired attorney for the DOD, "When you proselytize as a commander...you necessarily send doubts to the subordinates that you oversee about your impartiality and thus degrade good order and discipline, and in turn degrade combat capability."

History/Theology

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

Feb 20, 2:39pm Hollis Phelps

Much of the discussion of white evangelicals laments the loss of their moral standing, but such criticisms suffer under the misunderstanding that white evangelicalism in the United States has somehow devolved from a once salutary moral vision to brute political opportunism.

Sex/Gender/Justice

The Problem of ‘Evil’ in Describing Southern Baptist Abuse Crisis

Feb 19, 12:34pm Carol Howard Merritt

Now that I’m a pastor, I hold this truth within me: Every person has the capacity to do horrible things and so our congregations need to be set up with ways to report that go beyond a distraught housewife armed with a telephone.

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Culture & Conversation

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LGBTQ

Ask a Queer Chick: Do I Have to Come Out to My Conservative Family?

Feb 22, 9:43am Lindsay King-Miller

Also: How do I stand up for a friend being misgendered at work? And how do I know if I'm nonbinary?

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Media

‘PEN15’ Reminds Us Teen Girls Want to Masturbate Too

Feb 18, 12:20pm Brandi Collins-Calhoun

Hulu's new series is a much-needed perspective about female youth sexuality that has nothing to do with pregnancy and everything to do with pleasure, particularly masturbation.