Mexico’s Distressed-Migrant Visas Reach Few Women

Amy Lieberman of WeNews reports that “When Mexico decriminalized undocumented migration from the nations south of its border through its country two years ago, it also started allowing migrant victims of violence access to humanitarian visas. However, th…

Religious Hospitals Probed for Denying Women Care

WeNews legal commentator, Caroline Johnston Polisi analyzes the excommunication of Sister McBride, a nun excommunicated from the Catholic Church for allowing a woman to undergo a live-saving abortion, in the context of Catholic hospitals that have been d…

Women’s Groups Line Up Behind Sewell

Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt interviewed NOW Executive Vice President Bonnie Grabenhofer about why Terri Sewell is the right candidate to represent Alabama in Congress: “National women’s groups are wading heavily into Alabama’s 7th District congress…

Roman Polanski’s Freedom — and Unmitigated Gall

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson writes: “After authorities announced Monday that they were denying the U.S. request to have Polanski extradited, one of the famed auteur’s lawyers called the decision ‘an enormous satisfaction and a gre…