Activist Renee Bracey Sherman on why debate moderators must ask the presidential candidates about their plans to protect the right to an abortion.
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Tinsley: ’43 years after passing the Hyde Amendment, it’s time to end abortion coverage bans’
At 17 years old, I found myself sitting alone in a bathroom stall, waiting for the results of a pregnancy test.
A Black Midwesterner’s Perspective on Abortion Access, Regional Culture, and Why People Should Care About the Midwest
When reporting on the Midwest, media outlets often forget about communities subject to state violence and suppression.
Forward Together Statement on Abortion Legislation
Right now, our hearts are heavy. As a reproductive justice leader, my heart hurts…
Hollywood rarely tells the truth about abortion. ‘Little Woods’ is different.
Little Woods tells the truth about abortion. In Hollywood, that’s a revelation.
‘Abortion Regret’ Shows the Long History of a Favorite Anti-Choice Talking Point
Abortion Regret lays out a history of criminalization as a process that includes sowing stigma, creating systems of surveillance, manipulating or compiling new data, and establishing who gets to be a worthy victim.
Black Women’s Abortions Are Not ‘Black-on-Black Crime’
Black liberation is not measured in numbers of Black births; it is measured by thriving, autonomous Black lives.
Abortion Is Not a Thought Experiment
Rather than reduce women’s lives to a misogynistic thought experiment for op-ed pages, we should listen to what it is women say they need to lead fulfilling lives, have healthy pregnancies and build thriving families — not punish them.
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Black Mirror,” and the bleak futrue of abortion on TV
It’s not just Gilead’s regressive dystopia — too frequently, futuristic TV looks back at abortion, not forward
The U.S. Should Not Be Subjecting Refugees To ‘Reverse’ Abortions
America already has a dark history of state-sanctioned violence on Black and brown bodies for medical experimentation, particularly on those living in poverty and under government control. And we stood as idly by then as we do now.