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

[Photo: State Representative Tom Pischke speaks during a floor debate.]

Feb 15, 2019, 11:25am Nico Lang

South Dakota's HB 1108 is likely to prove a harbinger of things to come for the LGBTQ community in the United States.

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News Law and Policy

States Are Violating Medicaid Requirements by Refusing to Fund Some Abortions, Government Report Finds

Feb 15, 4:21pm Josephine Yurcaba

[Photo: Deb Haaland stands during the 116th Congress swearing-in ceremony.]

News Law and Policy

Native Leaders Brief Congress on Reproductive Health Priorities

Feb 13, 2:53pm Katelyn Burns

[Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer push an immigrant into an unmarked car after staging a raid at their home.]

News Immigration

No End in Sight for ‘Retaliatory Immigration Raids’ in North Carolina

Feb 14, 5:05pm Tina Vasquez

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Woman Detained After Obstetric Complications Released From Prison in El Salvador

Feb 15, 4:54pm Kathy Bougher

“In 2019 we shouldn’t be fighting for the presumption of innocence when a woman loses a pregnancy."

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Human Rights

Federal Government Uses ‘Crack House’ Statute in Attack on Overdose Prevention Sites

Feb 14, 11:50am Danielle Corcione

Advocates said by taking legal action against harm reduction facilities, the federal government is saying "the law is the law and if more people die, tough shit."

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Health Systems

Hepatitis A Rips Through Kentucky: ‘Almost an Epidemic’

Feb 13, 12:28pm Sarah Baird

It took months after the declaration of an outbreak for the public to react to Hepatitis A, which many had dismissed as a problem that would affect only high-risk populations.

Human Rights

The Trump Administration Wants to Detain Migrant Kids at Toxic Waste Sites (Updated)

Feb 12, 4:01pm Tina Vasquez

Thousands of migrant children would be held "on top of and in close proximity to toxic waste sites" if the Trump administration gets its way.

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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.

Politics

Elizabeth Warren and Indigenous People’s Erasure in Colonial Narratives

Feb 13, 12:56pm

"Native Americans are consistently talked over. We are talked over by conservatives who make racist jokes and war whoops. And we are talked over by Democrats, like Warren, who profess solidarity, and then, when it's politically convenient, plow right over us.”

How Ilhan Omar and Her Critics Can Save America

Feb 11, 4:52pm

Jallicia Jolly

Eradicating HIV in Black Communities Requires Systemic Change

Feb 8, 12:42pm

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Analysis

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LGBTQ

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

Feb 13, 9:00am Lisa Needham

The case is part of a well-coordinated effort to help conservative Christian groups ignore anti-discrimination laws.

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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

Immigration

As Government Continues ‘Dumping’ Migrants in Border Cities, Activists Organize

Feb 8, 12:36pm Ari Honarvar

Law and Policy

We Can Thank Kavanaugh for Roberts’ Decision to Temporarily Block Louisiana’s Anti-Abortion Law

Feb 8, 9:29am Jessica Mason Pieklo

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Multimedia

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

In several states, there are evangelical adoption and foster care agencies trying to keep federal funding while refusing to place children in LGBTQ or non-Christian families—and now the Trump administration may help them. Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy break down who's behind these discriminatory efforts and what they mean for kids and parents around the country.

Podcast

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

Jan 30, 8:35am Lindsay E. Beyerstein

Comfort Levels: The Story of My Medical Transition

Jan 17, 8:33am B Hayward

Podcast

Boom! Lawyered: The John Roberts Abortion Conundrum…Resolved?

Feb 8, 1:42pm Imani Gandy & Jessica Mason Pieklo

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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.

[Photo: Maritza Lopez sits in a recliner, smiling and holding her three dogs.]

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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Sex/Gender/Justice

A Pair of Christian Colleges Quietly Cracking Down on LGBTQ Acceptance

Feb 15, 4:05pm Christopher Stroop

As America reels from the exposure of a massive child sexual abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we should pause to take stock of the culpability of the broader conservative, mostly white evangelical subculture.

History/Theology

If Not For AIPAC: What Ilhan Omar Should Have Said

Feb 14, 4:54pm Haroon Moghul

I hope Rep. Omar is able to move forward after this unfortunate, second charge of anti-Semitism; to do less social media and more of what she was elected to do: legislate.

OMFG

MIT, Facing Opposition to Extremist Speaker, Might Try Google Next Time

Feb 14, 12:54pm Murali Balaji

Swamy, who has been affiliated with right-wing politics in India, is India's version of Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, or Nigel Farage: a polarizing figure with a long history of demonizing statements.

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