Nation Topics - Reproductive Rights | The Nation

It is a painfully awkward dance for a party more accustomed to trampling on women’s rights.

If they believe that in exercising control over women's reproductive functions, they will also control women's voices, they are wrong.

The pursuit of reproductive freedom and civil freedom need to be seen as one and the same.

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.

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

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

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

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

Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.