One in three women in the US have an abortion in their lifetimes, while nearly 40 percent of Americans claim they do not know anyone who has had…
Abortion
The US needs one law on abortion, not 50. Access to abortion should not depend on where a woman happens to live, work or seek health care.
Extremism within the anti-abortion movement is largely ignored. But we cannot afford to disregard the danger to providers and loss of access to reproductive health care for millions…
The Democratic Party stopped patronizing women into feeling like abortion is something they should apologize for.
While clinics are being shut down throughout the country by restrictive and medically unnecessary state laws, patients may soon learn that their last hope – their own private…
In spite of the continuing onslaught against reproductive justice and women’s equality, legislators in 17 states introduced 64 measures to expand reproductive options during the first quarter of…
One Tennessee new law proposes to bring back the electric chair should lethal injection drugs prove unavailable. The other would allow for criminal assault charges to be brought…
Poet, novelist, social activist, and important figure in the women’s liberation movement, Marge Piercy records a moving account of her own illegal abortion, and speaks to the importance…
The Affordable Care Act demonstrates an affirmative, proactive step from government for women’s access to reproductive health care, but conservatives are bent on moving backwards.
Because of the harassment and danger patients face simply attempting to access a reproductive health care clinic, elected officials should implement buffer zones to ensure public safety.