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Pro-choice protester

Thirty-seven years after Congress first ended Medicaid funding of abortion, a new coalition of abortion rights and reproductive justice groups is poised to fight back.

Nina Davuluri

The racist reaction to a South Asian Miss America is a disgrace, but so is the Miss America pageant.

Being a poor mother in the United States today means reusing diapers and struggling to afford food. But House Republicans think they have it too easy.

anti-choice protesters

Think anti-abortion crazies are no longer wreaking havoc on clinics and providers? Think again.

In Egypt, as well as in the West, outrage over rampant sexual assault has too often been about political agendas rather than concern for the actual victims.

Child care workers in New Jersey

Women who care for poor kids are often mothers living in poverty themselves.

Adjunct

Low-paid adjunct faculty, who are mostly female, have started unionizing for better pay—and winning.

SCOTUS

The Supreme Court affirmed the rights of gay people just as it rode roughshod over the rights of African-Americans.

Everyone knows marriage is gendered. But divorce is where cultural stereotypes become law.

Feminist army in texas

By refusing to give up on a done deal, Texas feminists showed us what the future of pro-choice activism looks like.

Blogs

After Wendy Davis’s successful filibuster of SB5, the Texas legislature returns for a second attempt to restrict abortion and reproductive rights.

July 1, 2013

The first step is to not talk to brick walls.

June 28, 2013

Her eleven-hour filibuster blocked the passage of a draconian abortion ban—and awakened a pro-choice sleeping giant.

June 26, 2013

SB5 would have forced thirty-seven of the forty-two abortion clinics in Texas to shut down.

June 26, 2013

Fighting back against the GOP's all-out assault on reproductive rights.

June 25, 2013

Call on the Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia to help get Wajeha Al-Huwaider out of prison now.

June 24, 2013

The first in a weekly video series on how to navigate our world as a feminist.

June 21, 2013

Our reproductive rights are still in danger.

June 20, 2013

In a significant win for public health, the Justices called the pledge a violation of the First Amendment.

June 20, 2013

The human rights activist who has organized protests against the ban on female drivers will serve ten months in jail for the crime of "inciting a woman against her husband."

June 19, 2013
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