“Look at that little bald head,” Jewel Adams said. Moving toward Adams in the arms of her mother, and wearing a ruffled, magenta onesie, is 3-week-old Safiyah James. “Hi Sophia,”
Reproductive rights
The parking lot of a North Carolina abortion clinic is at the center of a battle between anti-abortion protesters and clinic escorts.
One million women and girls around the world offered answers. Now their responses are influencing reproductive health care policy.
After traveling thousands of miles fleeing violence and discrimination, LGBTQ women find safety and support in Tapachula, Mexico.
Obtaining medically accurate information about abortion can be difficult yet dire for pregnant people desperate for answers.
Where gun access gets easier and abortion access gets harder, women pay the price.
The recent spate of anti-abortion legislation is rooted in White extinction anxiety and carries on a long tradition of White people controlling the lives and reproduction of people of color.
There are only a few men who seem not to have gotten the memo. Unfortunately for us, they’re the men at the top of the Democratic field.
In 2019, legislators in seven states expanded abortion rights while some states moved to restrict or ban them.
The decline is happening across the country, and it’s about more than just contraceptives.
Celebrating only “strong” women and nonbinary people doesn’t advance the cause of feminism or gender equality.
Reproductive rights advocates in the Southeast are working nonstop to help low-income women.
Author Dani McClain wants us to stop pathologizing Black mothers’ experiences in this country.
I caused a stir in India when I spoke out against rape culture, shaming, and silence. Thirty years later, I found the strength to do it all over again—this time to an international audience.
Infertility affects Black women twice as much as other women—and they’re less likely to seek assistance.
A youth program in Orlando, Florida, wants to decrease high school dropouts, juvenile arrests, and teen births. And it’s working.
Planned Parenthood has partnered with the entertainment industry to combat misrepresentations of women’s reproductive health.
The Sexy Sex Ed initiative helps rural young people feel more comfortable discussing their bodies, sex, and reproductive health to empower them to advocate for themselves.
The Juicebox app connects people with sex coaches to get their questions answered—anonymously.
The viral social media campaign #ShoutYourAbortion is now a book that celebrates life and freedom as much as choice.
By opening up about her struggles with pregnancy, former First Lady Michelle Obama launches a public conversation about something many women suffer in private.
It’s never too early to learn that “no” is a boundary, not a punishment.
Educators across the country are adopting a policy to allow children in classes, and allowing more student parents to stay in school.
An unsung shero of the early 20th century, Rose Schneiderman organized women to fight for laws to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.
While we debate abortion, women are dying in childbirth.
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