Anti-choice protests were staged at clinics in North Carolina; Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and Michigan, at which protesters similarly disregarded social distancing guidelines.
The life I was choosing for myself was almost on the line. And abortion would have saved it.
Six Republican-led states are attempting to ban abortions amid the coronavirus pandemic by claiming that abortions are nonessential medical procedures.
The film follows the young women as they travel from their small Pennsylvania town to Planned Parenthood in New York City so Autumn can have a surgical abortion.
Argentina’s battle for abortion rights reached a new boiling point in March when the country’s president, Alberto Fernández, announced a bill to decriminalize abortion.
As abortion protections have eroded across the country, countless health care providers have stepped out from behind their stethoscopes to talk about why abortion is an important part of reproductive health care.
A recent study found that there was also an unprecedented number of discussions about abortion depicted on television — more than ever observed in a single year.
An anti-abortion bill introduced to Ohio’s General Assembly on November 14 is causing controversy for requiring doctors to exhaust every possible option to save an unborn fetus, including “re-implanting” an ectopic pregnancy — a procedure that is literally medically impossible.
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which affirmed a woman’s right to choose, is often referred to as “the law of the land.” However, it’s actually a Supreme Court decision, not a law, and that distinction is incredibly important.
Activist Renee Bracey Sherman started the hashtag #AskAboutAbortion after moderators continuously failed to raise the subject. She recently told the FBomb about what needs to change in the national dialogue about abortion and what debate-watchers should look for in the future.
The Helms Amendment and has caused damage to women all over the world by limiting U.S. funding for family planning all over the world.
The most critical voices among those pushing back against this recent onslaught of anti-choice legislation and rhetoric are those of people who have been pregnant or had abortions themselves.
The College Student Right to Access Act would make sure that once a student has decided to end a pregnancy, they won’t be forced to go off campus to see a provider they don’t know.
Kenyan women and girls rarely get information about abortion at all because our society is heavily influenced by conservative religious beliefs. There is no sex education in the Kenyan education system, and religion seeps into classes like biology; Kenyan students are taught in their schools that abortion is evil and against God’s will.
One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to reinstate and expand the global gag rule. This conservative policy hurts people in developing countries that already have to endure systemic obstacles to access health care.
On June 4, the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on “Threats to Reproductive Rights in America.” 18-year-old Youth Testify leader HK Gray testified at the hearing about the barriers she faced when seeking an abortion in Texas as a minor, including needing a judicial bypass to obtain an abortion.
If women are going to seek abortion no matter the legal status of abortion in the country they live in, who will illegal abortion hurt the most? The answer can be found in examining how significant a role class plays in a woman’s decision to have an abortion.
Referred to as the “mother” or “grandmother” of French New Wave cinema, Varda was a pioneering director who influenced a new generation of filmmakers by making movies with feminist themes.
In 2019, Uruguay will have presidential elections, and it’s more important than ever that organizations advocating for reproductive rights stick together and continue to keep fighting to educate their society and advocate for a continued cultural shift toward acceptance of women’s reproductive rights.
The government still controls mothers, especially those in marginalized populations, by criminalizing their bodies and the choices they make about them.
Jair Bolsonaro’s election as Brazil’s president at the end of October, and the threat of far right extremism it represents, comes on the heels of a reinvigorated fight for abortion rights all across Latin America.
From Brazil to México, from Chile to Venezuela, from Peru to Costa Rica, from Bolivia to Ecuador, the green wave protesters’ call for legal, safe, and free abortion has intensified. The right to choose is influencing and energizing the activists in these countries, and these countries’ political institutions are paying more attention to their activism.
In Brazil, abortion is currently only legal in cases of rape, when the pregnancy poses a major threat to the woman’s life, or in cases of anencephaly in the fetus. On August 3 and 6 of this year, a public hearing was held to discuss the possibility of decriminalizing abortion altogether.
Often considered the “swing vote” on the Supreme Court, Justice Kennedy spent his 30-year career making arguably the most bipartisan decisions in the courtroom. Democrats and progressives had come to rely on him as a key figure in the fight to protect existing abortion rights at the federal level.
Minors should have the right to have an abortion without parental consent or notification because teens who choose not notify their parents before having an abortion likely do so for very good reasons other than privacy or shame.