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Pro-choice rally

Here’s why you should make a major gift to an abortion fund.

Today's “right to life” rhetoric is a bizarre cross between the theological imperative to be fruitful and multiply and the fetishism of microbiological cellular promise.

Birth control on the shelf

Rush Limbaugh's anti-contraception tirade targeted a single woman. Would he have had done the same if Sandra Fluke had been married?

Diana Sumner (left), Howard Bloch and Angela Davis, Biarritz, France, 1963

Angela Davis’s student years in France were an alchemy of discipline and distraction.

Cecile Richards

How, exactly, did she turn a relentless right-wing assault into a source of renewed political power for Planned Parenthood?

Bei Bei Shuai

Bad things happen when laws to protect fetuses are turned against the women who carry them.

Unemployed mother

Women dominate growing sectors like retail and home healthcare—but the jobs there are grueling and the wages are low.

Bush signs partial birth abortion ban

Why are we still surprised by Foster Friess, Darrell Issa and Rick Santorum's misogyny?

Catholic hospitals net billions in government aid. They should not be able to deny their employees contraceptive coverage.

Let's find a way to honor relationships that does not rely on buying stuff.

Blogs

Now that the NBA center has come out—the first current pro athlete to do so—what's next for LGBT equality?

May 1, 2013

We can’t let our discomfort with teen sex trump young people’s right to reproductive health.

May 1, 2013

A visit to a forlorn sex shop inspires meditation on the diverse meanings of solidarity, mutuality and community.

April 30, 2013

The US can learn a lot from Australia’s new medical abortion policy.

April 26, 2013

Women know sexism when they see it better than men do. This week’s case in point: Dylan Byers.

April 26, 2013

There’s nothing healthy about shaming people for their bodies.

April 25, 2013

Rooting out "thinspiration" in social media is a start, but we must not turn "thinspo" into a scapegoat.

April 23, 2013

Will Justices agree that requiring HIV service providers to oppose prostitution is necessary for ending AIDS?

April 22, 2013

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013

The Supreme Court will now decide: can the government force aid recipients to oppose prostitution?

April 19, 2013