Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion. What Comes Next?
Ireland voted in a landslide to support abortion rights. But making abortion care available will take much more.
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News
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Study Debunks Anti-Choice Claims of Link Between Abortion and Suicide
Several states require that pregnant people seeking abortion care be provided with state-printed materials that make dubious claims about the psychological risks of abortion.
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When Will Massachusetts Democrats Undo the State’s ‘Archaic’ Reproductive Rights Laws?
As legislators around the nation mount challenges to curtail the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the U.S., advocates here are pushing the state to stand up for women’s rights and choice.
‘Completely Intentional’: Fake Clinics Outnumber Abortion Providers 10 to 1 in Texas
Among the Texas fake clinics identified by Rewire.News, more than 50 receive state funding through a program created by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2005.
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Senate Democrats Strike Back Against GOP’s Religious Imposition Agenda
With Trump in the White House, "it is more important than ever for Congress to make clear that this law is a shield for religious freedom—not a sword for discrimination.”
Commentary
Why I ‘Stand in Awe of all Mná’ Voting to Repeal the Eighth
Regardless of the result on Friday, Irish women have started a rebellion, and women everywhere are grateful.
Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule Will Silence, Shame, and Stigmatize Women
The domestic and global gag rules stigmatize a simple medical procedure by disconnecting it from other health care services and by forcing doctors not to offer women the whole array or reproductive options available to them.
Analysis
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With Gang Allegations, Educators Are Funneling Migrant Teens Into a School-to-Deportation Pipeline
“Children deserve to be able to go to school in a safe environment, without having to worry that a basketball jersey could mean deportation.”
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Boom! Lawyered: Pardon Me?
Can Donald Trump pardon himself? What happens next if he tries? Whose fault is it that the pardon became so powerful? And how did the pardon even come to exist, anyway? Rewire.News legal eagles Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo answer all of these questions and more on the latest episode of Boom! Lawyered.
Investigations
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Anti-Choice Centers in North Carolina Use Federal Funds to Buy Programs Crafted to ‘Share Christ’
These centers, aimed at convincing "abortion-minded" women to continue their pregnancies, purchase videos from the "Earn While You Learn" program with federal funds intended to address maternal health and infant mortality.
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An Ohio Woman Demands Better Care for Black Patients After Her Involuntary Hospitalization
She says her experience is emblematic of a greater problem: the treatment Black patients face when they seek psychiatric care.
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These Trans Women Are Fighting for Insurance Coverage as Trump Unravels Their Right to Care
The Trump administration has moved to roll back protections for transgender patients—leaving them reliant on federal courts and a patchwork of state policies.
In Passing ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill, House Lawmakers Ignore Civil Rights Leaders
Civil rights groups believe that the U.S. Senate version of the bill, which establishes crimes against law enforcement as hate crimes, is significantly worse.
Culture & Conversation
Can We Reclaim the Word ‘Cunt’? This Book Thinks So.
I don't agree. First published in 1998, Inga Muscio's provocative book still makes an unconvincing case and also repeats troubling anti-choice rhetoric. But it has valuable insights about confronting sexual violence and learning trans inclusivity.
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Five Ways Adults Can Help Support LGBTQ Youth
Although plenty of LGBTQ adults are feeling the same unease, things are simply different when you are a politically disenfranchised minor.
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Ask a Queer Chick: I’m a Lesbian and Married to a Man I Don’t Love. What Do I Do?
Also: How do I be myself when I don't know who that "self" is?
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The Latest Big Win in Gavin Grimm’s Case Shows Why Judicial Diversity Matters
The president is stacking the courts with right-leaning extremists who will languish on the bench for decades, doing their best to strip marginalized people of their civil rights. This should alarm you.
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We Failed the Students of Parkland. But We Also Failed Nikolas Cruz
At some point we have to acknowledge that the sheer pain of a Nikolas Cruz or an Adam Lanza, or the children being recruited into gangs or by terrorist groups is in and of itself worth addressing. If we can't completely reorient our thinking on the lost people in this country, we are the only ones to blame for the consequences.
Gavel Drop: Does a Cross Belong in a City Park? 11th Circuit Panel Will Weigh In
Yet another legal skirmish about religious imposition, brought to you by the conservative Becket Fund.
RH Wire
- Scott Pruitt Twice Proposed Anti-Abortion Legislation Granting Men 'Property Rights' Over Fetuses The Slot
- Trump's ban on global abortion funding has led to more abortions CNN
- Harvey Weinstein set to turn himself in on sex crime charges in New York NY Daily News
- House Dems urge Mulvaney to reject proposed rollback of transgender health protections The Hill
- Soon-To-Be Mothers In Missouri’s Bootheel Scramble To Find Care After Hospital Announces Closure St. Louis Public Radio
- https://www.them.us/story/sephora-launches-beauty-classes-for-trans-community Them
- ‘This Is Not of God’: When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren New York Times
- The Lesbian Pulp Fiction That Saved Lives Atlas Obscura
