Gender and Sexuality

Missed Conception Missed Conception

Hawaii recently became the fifth state to make emergency contraception, also known as the morning-after pill, available directly from pharmacists. This is far from a small regulato...

Jun 26, 2003 / Kirsten Moore

Chipping Away at Roe Chipping Away at Roe

Congress has once again passed a bill banning "partial-birth abortion." It's not the first time. President Clinton vetoed similar bans in 1996 and 1997.

Jun 12, 2003 / Wendy Chavkin

Far From Heaven Far From Heaven

During the early years of the civil rights revolution, Theodore Bilbo, the ferocious segregationist senator from Mississippi, published a book titled Take Your Choice: Separati...

May 29, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Lind

Freedom of Choice Talking Points Freedom of Choice Talking Points

Though polls consistently show a majority of Americans supporting freedom of choice, abortion rights are facing their greatest attack since the Supreme Court decision Roe V.

May 1, 2003 / Jonah Engle

Sodomy for Some Sodomy for Some

So it looks like Rick Santorum won't go the way of Trent Lott.

May 1, 2003 / Richard Kim

The Naked and the Red The Naked and the Red

Led by a former Boeing machinist, Las Vegas exotic dancers are talking union.

Apr 3, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper

In the Waiting Room In the Waiting Room

"We are in a funding emergency today," read the e-mail from the New York Abortion Access Fund.

Apr 3, 2003 / Column / Katha Pollitt

A Win at Cracker Barrel A Win at Cracker Barrel

A lonely Cracker Barrel restaurant stands alongside the highway that runs near my house.

Jan 23, 2003 / M.V. Lee Badgett

Roe in Rough Waters Roe in Rough Waters

Thirty years later, abortion's political terrain is more complicated than ever.

Jan 22, 2003 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner

Christian Soldiers on the March Christian Soldiers on the March

Bush's handpicked delegates disrupt global conferences on women's rights.

Jan 16, 2003 / Feature / Jennifer Block

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