Pregnant women struggle so much already with isolation and loss of control over their birth plans — coronavirus has brought even more challenges.
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PODCAST: Carol Downer revolutionized the women’s health movement, and refuses to quit, decades later
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Carol Downer, a pioneer of the women’s liberation movement, putting women’s health in women’s hands.
Elizabeth Warren cannot simultaneously claim to fight for women’s rights while advocating to endanger women in prison.
Any ideology that grants embryonic or fetal “right to life” is dangerous for women and girls.
From female genital mutilation to domestic violence to femicide, women and girls around the world are living in fear.
“We can’t do this as individuals — we have to do this as sisters.”
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Mary Lou Singleton, a midwife, nurse practitioner, and reproductive sovereignty activist about everything from self-abortion to midwifery to where the reproductive rights movement went wrong.
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Civia Tamarkin, director of “Birthright: A War Story,” a new documentary looking at the attack on women’s reproductive rights in the U.S.
On May 31, the Dominican Senate voted to uphold a total ban on abortion. Even in cases of rape and incest, and when the woman’s life is in danger.
The headline of an opinion piece pubilshed in prominent Spanish newspaper El País, “We are not sheep,” implies a story of oppressed women reclaiming their agency. The piece, though, turns out to…
Actor Ben Yahr is on a mission: He wants white male bodies to be valued in our society just as much as the pregnant bodies of women of colour. So he decided…
Planned Parenthood, as you may know, is the largest single provider of reproductive health services in the United States. The non-profit defines itself as “leading the reproductive health and rights movement,” and has…
Yesterday, the Indiana appellate court heard oral arguments from Purvi Patel’s lawyers, appealing her conviction on charges of feticide and neglect of a dependent. Patel was arrested in 2013, after she sought…
It has been hard to miss the growing media coverage of the Zika virus. With a possible link between the infection of pregnant women and birth deformities, much of the attention has…
A total ban on abortion has been reaffirmed in the Dominican Republic. “Total,” meaning that even if you are a teenage girl dying from leukemia and the only thing preventing doctors from…