How major abortion laws compare, state by state
Access to abortion in the U.S. depends on where you live. Increasingly, the South and Midwest are becoming complete abortion deserts.
‘It’s tied to 666’: Abortion disinformation threatens 20 years of progress in Ethiopia
Abortion rights saved thousands of women’s lives. Now, disinformation is putting them back at risk.
These creators help millions of people talk about bodies, sex and sexuality. Their content is being removed because of it
Watch more on this story: Why did Instagram take down this creator’s account? On July 11, Sam Atalanta opened Instagram expecting to scroll through their account, The Vulva Gallery. The Dutch artist’s colourful, cartoon-like illustrations…
American conservatives’ latest safari — an anti-women, anti-LGBTQ tour of Africa
Earlier this month, the Africa Christian Professionals Forum, a membership-based organization whose stated mission is to build “a society that upholds our Biblical values,” put on the Pan-African Conference on Family Values in Nairobi, Kenya. …
Can South Korean politics make way for it’s ‘Light Stick Revolutionaries?’
Korean women have helped topple governments but still have trouble gaining political office.
Reporter’s Notebook: One Woman Who Dares To Speak Out
I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and jeopardized women’s lives. During that time, I’ve interviewed…
CSW69 — Women’s Rights at a Crossroads
As leaders gather for CSW69 three decades after the Beijing Declaration, will commitments turn into action, or will hard-won gains be lost?
‘It’s which door she walks through’: How provider preference and hospital culture drive C-section rates
A third of low-risk women in Mississippi are undergoing surgery for their first birth — far beyond the WHO’s max rate of 15%
The draft abortion ruling that shook the states
Five things to help make sense of what it means.
With the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade, New York prepares to become an abortion safe haven
In the wake of a leaked decision by Justice Alito gutting abortion rights, New York state lawmakers have introduced measures to expand access for the expected influx of abortion seekers.
Where democracy falters, so do reproductive rights
Where populist authoritarianism is on the rise, anti-abortion politics aren’t far behind.
The South’s abortion battle has a new front: telemedicine
A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last…
It’s not just Texas and Mississippi: Abortion access is in jeopardy across the Deep South
As all eyes turn to the landmark case before the Supreme Court, advocates in the South say they’ve been sounding the alarm on access for years.
‘It Felt So Freeing’: Why Young Women Are Dropping the Pill
As the pill’s 60th anniversary approaches outside of the U.S., young women and people with wombs are increasingly interrogating the lack of information doctors provide about side effects when prescribing the pill and calling for…
Poland’s abortion rights protests lead to a louder call for gender equity
Women across Poland have been at the heart of a protest movement railing against a ruling that would ban most abortions — the country’s largest protests since the end of Communism 30 years ago. Now…
‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya
Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies.
Could the coronavirus make telemedicine abortion the new normal?
During the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine abortion has become a way of bringing providers directly into patients’ homes, bypassing clinics altogether. Could this become the new normal?
Wisconsin’s Catholic Hospitals Limit Reproductive Procedures
In reproductive care, critics argue, Catholic ethics can trump medical best practice and patients can be denied the care they desire or need.