Millennials—young adults born in the 1980s and 1990s—came of age during a time when antibiotic-resistant sexually transmitted infections became a public health threat, racial disparities in reproductive and sexual health outcomes persisted, and politicians continued to systematically deny and attack their ability to access sexual health information and health care services, such as contraception and abortion.
Outlet: RH Reality Check
It’s Not Helpful to Tell Indiana Residents to ‘Just Move to a Blue State’
The brouhaha over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act has turned the spotlight on two different kinds of red-state hate: first, the discriminatory policymaking that is an obvious specialty of red states, and, second, progressives’ tendency to show disdain for more conservative states. Sometimes, I wonder which is worse.
Dr. Cheryl Chastine of South Wind Women’s Center Talks Reproductive Justice and Not Backing Down
A young provider, Dr. Chastine represents the future of abortion care; she infuses reproductive justice values and transgender patient care into her practice.
Percy Sutton’s 1966 Abortion Rights Bill: Groundbreaking, But Often Unremembered
By the time of his death in 2009, New York’s Percy Sutton had long earned his reputation as a pioneer and power broker.
Fighting for ‘Love and Justice’ in North Carolina: Why We Still Protest When It Seems Like We’re Losing
The march represented just one of the many ways North Carolina residents have been organizing, as part of the Moral Mondays movement, to show state lawmakers we haven’t been feeling the love.
Family Leave Laws Need to Include Teen Student Parents
Pregnant and parenting students face significant barriers that often are overlooked or discounted by schoolteachers and other people in their lives.
Beyond the Coat Hanger: What’s Next for Abortion Rights Iconography?
For many in the reproductive rights movement, the coat hanger is more than a commonplace closet item. Activists use it to memorialize those girls and women who turned to unsafe abortions out of desperation when abortion was illegal. It transforms into shorthand for “Never again.”
Let’s Use Our Abortion Stories to Push Policy Reforms in 2015
When Brittany Mostiller shared her abortion story in November as part of a 1 in 3 Campaign abortion speak-out, she talked about how the economic challenges she was facing informed her decision to have an abortion.
Letters to Justice Blackmun Offer Glimpse of Public’s Post-‘Roe’ Reactions
Nine months after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a woman named Katherine T. wrote Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the case’s majority opinion, a rambling letter detailing her illegal abortion and expressing her gratitude.
A Vest That Moves People: A Q&A With Benita Ulisano of the Clinic Vest Project
As increasingly hostile anti-choice legislatures pass policies aimed at restricting women’s access to quality health care, the Clinic Vest Project is supporting the people who are on the front lines protecting patients’ ability to exercise their reproductive rights.