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Midwifery as Activism

…working towards reproductive health for women. From Sudan to the United States, it is inspiring to see how women are working to ensure the reproductive health of their sisters and…

Happening

…Fellowships at Columbia University advance progressive reproductive and sexual health and women’s rights policies around the world. The Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship at the Mailman School of Public…

A Draconian Abortion Ban in My Own Backyard

…morning of May 4, 2021. Led by Just Texas, a grassroots movement of progressive people of faith and faith leaders in support of reproductive freedom and LGBTQ equality, we had…

Women Shake Things Up in a Major Statehouse

Reproductive Health Act was passed, codifying Roe in the state law, after years of being stalled by a Republican state senate. Ditto for a long-awaited Child Victims’ Act, which had…

The Jewish Stake in Abortion Rights

…Schlafly, head of Eagle Forum, an anti-ERA, anti-reproductive rights organization, was chief speaker at a Liberty Lobby conference in 1965, according to the Anti-Defamation League pamphlet The Radical Right. The…

Conjuring Emma Goldman

OUTSPOKEN ACTIVIST ON BEHALF of reproductive rights and renowned anarchist revolutionary, Emma Goldman (1869-1940) has materialized for years in popular books and films; she appears as a character in E.L….

Why This Abortion Rights Tactic Is Actually Sexist

…the sharing of abortion “stories” is usually framed: as a pro-choice, pro-reproductive rights political action. Sometimes, these testimonies do serve an explicitly political purpose—as when, in February of this year,…

How Dobbs Hurts IVF Seekers

…even more excruciating. This year was tough, even though most of our struggles played out in a world in which the assisted reproductive technologies my husband and I benefited from…