5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (519+ words) Now, instead of being constrained by a statutory checklist, licensed physicians may use their professional judgment in consultation with their patients. That means more people who need abortion care later in pregnancy can receive it in their home state. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (21+ words) The post test – patrick – sept 1 appeared first on Ms. Magazine. Yes! I would like to receive new content and updates....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (753+ words) Keshia Golden’s attorneys say that in October 2022, while she was eight-plus months pregnant, her then-boyfriend Calvin Sidney hit her, grabbed her hair and slammed her head against a kitchen counter. Golden grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Sidney in the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1801+ words) Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (796+ words) I’m Candace. I’m 33 years old, from Jackson, Mississippi, and the mother of three children: a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 1-year-old. Everything I do is based around my kids. Don’t invite me if my kids can’t come. They like being…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (923+ words) Idaho has one of the nation’s strictest abortion regimes: Abortion is generally criminalized at every stage of pregnancy, with narrow exceptions. As Winmill writes, as a direct consequence of this ban, “a woman’s body itself is conscripted into service and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (887+ words) New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a law Thursday establishing the nation’s strongest physical protections for gender-affirming care patients and providers, while expanding legal safeguards for reproductive healthcare access. The law, which passed both houses of the legislature in June,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (291+ words) Originally published by The Contrarian on Aug. 20, 2026, “Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize.” I was recently alerted to a new rock opera called 1972 previewing in Boston this fall about women’s lives and abortion in America before Roe v. Wade. The promo…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (232+ words) Content statement: This piece includes discussions of murder, infant death and child abuse, postpartum depression and psychosis, and sanism. The case has laid bare the failures of a U.S. mental healthcare system that did not protect Clancy or her children, and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (423+ words) This midterm season, as courts and legislatures chip away at who gets to have a voice in our elections and governance, shoring up our democratic infrastructure is more important than ever. An unlikely tool in the arsenal of democracy? Care....