What’s Current: Graphic footage of woman being assaulted in bar sparks outrage in China
What’s Current: Graphic footage of woman being assaulted in bar sparks outrage in China
Graphic footage of a woman being assaulted in a bar bathroom has sparked outrage over violence against women in China. This attack is the second this month to make national headlines for public violence against women.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday protecting legal access to contraception.
A state judge has ruled that abortion clinics in Louisiana can continue operating until a lawsuit challenging the state’s near-total abortion ban is resolved.
The Associated Press Stylebook has issued a “Topical Guide” for transgender coverage encouraging writers to use “unbiased language” and to “avoid false balance [by] giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by including all views.” The guide encourages writers to refer to subjects according to their preferred gender identity and condemns “deadnaming” (referring to a transgender person’s previous name) because that “can be akin to using a slur and can cause feelings of gender dysphoria to resurface.”
