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Why I Joined Abortion Activists in Milwaukee to Counter-Protest Operation Save America

[Photo: Two people holding signs face each other with serious looks. The person on the left holds a sign that says 'I regret aborting my child' while the one on the right holds a sign that says 'I don't regret my abortion.']

Jul 19, 2019, 3:20pm Meg Stern

As a clinic escort in Louisville, I know what it's like for my local provider to be targeted by the anti-abortion extremists.

Erin Vilardi

Commentary Politics

President Trump Is Afraid of the Squad

Jul 18, 2:08pm

Commentary Abortion

‘Pro-Life My Ass’: Anti-Choice Lawmakers Don’t Value People

Jul 18, 11:03am

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News Law and Policy

Another State Could Soon Insert Anti-Abortion Propaganda Into Public Schools

Jul 19, 8:42am Erin Heger

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News

Law and Policy

HHS Awards Nearly $1.5 Million in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Funding to Anti-Choice Organizations

Jul 23, 5:41pm Sony Salzman

Two of the organizations receiving federal teen pregnancy prevention funding promote medication abortion reversal, which the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists considers "unproven and unethical.”

[Photo: A young Black patient has a video chat with doctor on tablet.]

Abortion

Telemedicine Abortion Is Safe, No Matter What Anti-Choice Lawmakers Claim

Jul 23, 2:22pm Auditi Guha

Medication abortion provided via telemedicine has the same health outcomes as medication abortions provided at a clinic, according to new research.

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Politics

Wendy Davis Is Running for Congress

Jul 22, 2:44pm Ally Boguhn

Wendy Davis, who filibustered an omnibus anti-choice Texas law in 2013, has entered the race to unseat a Republican who believes abortion care "has no place in American society."

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Abortion

Tennessee Republicans Aren’t Done Trying to End Most Legal Abortion

Jul 22, 1:56pm Rachel Wells

An August hearing could reveal what's next in the Tennessee GOP's attempt to pass a six-week abortion ban that stalled this year in the state senate.

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Commentary

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Law and Policy

Want to Reduce Sex Trafficking? Decriminalize Sex Work.

Jul 18, 11:39am Katie Tastrom

The main argument that people have against decriminalization is based on a myth: that decriminalization of the sex trade will increase sex trafficking. In fact, the opposite is true.

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Economic Justice

The Subminimum Wage Is on the Chopping Block. Why Are Some Seeking to Preserve It? (Updated)

Jul 18, 11:36am Rebecca Cokley

Immigration

There’s Nothing ‘Pro-Life’ About Denying Migrants Rights and Dignity

Jul 15, 1:43pm Jessica González-Rojas

Sexual Health

How to Talk to Young People About Abortion

Jul 12, 11:06am Ellen Friedrichs

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Analysis

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Abortion

Abortion Has Been Illegal in El Salvador for Two Decades. Here’s What Activists Say U.S. Feminists Should Know.

Jul 16, 11:19am Kathy Bougher

"It’s vulnerable women who are criminalized. It’s exactly the same thing that will happen in the United States.”

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Economic Justice

The Fight for Decriminalizing Sex Work Is About Justice

Jul 15, 8:52am Bryce Covert

Abortion

The Long Road to Opening South Bend’s Abortion Clinic

Jul 11, 12:53pm Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Law and Policy

It May Be up to John Roberts to Save the Affordable Care Act Once Again

Jul 11, 10:58am Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Multimedia

Boom! Lawyered: The Hidden Secrets of Jess and Imani

It's no secret that Rewire.News legal eagles Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo are as close as they are smart. But what secrets have they kept from each other? And what secrets have they kept from us? All is revealed on this episode of Boom! Lawyered.

Eisner-Nominated Original Comic: Pablo Leon’s ‘The Journey’

Jan 8, 8:29am Pablo Leon

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: This Lawsuit Could Bring Reproductive Justice to the Supreme Court

Jul 11, 9:17am Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: There Are Concentration Camps for Kids at the Border. Is Any of This Legal?

Jun 27, 8:42am Jessica Mason Pieklo & Imani Gandy

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Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: This Case Could Define Transgender Rights for a Generation

Jun 20, 8:36am Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Investigations

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Politics

An Anti-Choice Group Misspent $50,000 on Religious Material. North Carolina Wants to Give It $400,000 More.

Jul 11, 10:35am Amy Littlefield

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.

[Photo: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin in a light blue tie, holding his hand up in a pinching gesture.]

Abortion

These Corporations and Public Charities Funded the State Abortion Bans

Jun 14, 1:30pm Alex Kotch

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?

Violence

#MeToo in Indian Country: ‘We Don’t Talk About This Enough’

May 29, 12:13pm Mary Annette Pember

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.

Religion Dispatches

Sex/Gender/Justice

Vatican’s ‘Dumbed Down Version of an Old Argument’ on Gender Can’t Stop Changes in Catholicism

Jun 25, 10:59am Mary Hunt

The past two popes insist, against mounting evidence, that the gender binary, male and female, is given in nature and blessed by God. God, a male after all, created them Male and Female. The Genesis account inconveniently leaves out the detail about the blue and pink blankets and onesies.

Politics/Law

A Recent Local Controversy Reveals the Theocratic Heart of ‘Project Blitz’

Jun 24, 12:26pm Frederick Clarkson

The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon.

Politics/Law

Nxivm Scam Is Dead, but ‘Brainwashing’ Pseudoscience Lives On

Jun 21, 4:41pm James T. Richardson

This history clearly shows why most courts in the United States are reticent to accept brainwashing theories today. The science underlying such claims is faulty, and courts have realized that accepting such claims undercuts the very basis of the legal system, which is that individuals are responsible for their own actions.

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Culture & Conversation

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Politics

I Was Born in the United States. I’ve Been Told to Go Back to My Country Too.

Jul 19, 10:26am Tasmiha Khan

In attacking women of color for their so-called disloyalty to the country, President Donald Trump is perpetuating the notion that “American” is synonymous with “white."

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LGBTQ

‘We Must Document Ourselves Now’: The Legacy of Black Lesbian Feminist Leadership

Jun 27, 2:12pm Jasmine Burnett

I am most aligned with the people who force the world to be accountable for its stigma, bias, and hate. There is nothing that captures the spirit of Pride better than that.

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Sexual Health

I Was Given Medication Without My Enthusiastic and Informed Consent—And It Wasn’t Against the Law

Jun 26, 2:16pm Casey O’Brien

A lengthy document I signed upon my arrival to the emergency room acted as a general consent to treatment—but it meant that I was given antibiotics I didn't need and that my insurance refused to cover.