Legislative Lowlights: Total Abortion Bans Are Flying Through State Legislatures
Republicans' total abortion bans, supported by anti-choice Democratic lawmakers, keep running into legal roadblocks.
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- Legislative Lowlights: Texas GOP Finds New and Inventive Ways to Legalize LGBTQ Discrimination
- Will Trump’s Next FDA Head Push Anti-Choice Agenda?
- Trump Administration Releases Final Text of Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ Restriction on Title X
- This Week in Sex: New Clue Into Why Some Birth Control Users Get Pregnant
- Racism in Medicine: As Doctors, We Must Do Better
- What You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on the Federal Family Planning Program
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Legislative Lowlights: Texas GOP Finds New and Inventive Ways to Legalize LGBTQ Discrimination
Meanwhile, Utah Republicans want to control how educators talk about contraception, and GOP legislators in Oklahoma continue to push the anti-choice myth of abortion "reversal."
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Domestic ‘Gag Rule’ to Begin in 60 Days as Democrats Question Policy’s Legality
Reproductive health and rights advocates have already moved to ensure the domestic gag rule is dead on arrival.
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Trump’s Family Planning Rules Are Class Warfare. States Are Ready to Stop Them.
The Trump rules banning abortion referrals at Title X-funded clinics, similar to a Reagan-era policy, "mandates discrimination" and could meet legal challenges from states.
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What We Risk When We Fail to Protect Black Girls
Emerging research implicates this systematic lack of protection in the disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Black girls and women.
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In Search of Justice: How DHS PREA Standards Don’t Necessarily Protect Immigrants From Assault
In part two of an investigation of abuse allegations at the T. Don Hutto detention center, Rewire.News partnered with Latino USA to examine the nuts and bolts of a Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) audit and how the process can fail survivors of sexual assault.
