What’s Current: Vancouver Lesbian Collective launches #SexBasedRights campaign for women’s healthcare

  • The Vancouver Lesbian Collective launches a #SexBasedRights campaign, urging the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives to acknowledge that biological sex matters in healthcare.
  • Women’s rights advocates in Poland accuse the government of plotting to create a “pregnancy registry” with a new expansion in medical data being digitally archived. Campaigners warn recording pregnancies on a national database could be “dangerous” in Poland, where abortion is criminalized in almost all cases.
  • A Sussex hospital trust has violated rules over single-sex wards over 1,500 times in six months, new NHS England data reveals
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.