Tara Culp-Ressler writes for Think Progress: “It’s not hard to see the potential ripple effects. First of all, dozens of other companies and nonprofits have already sued to for the right to drop coverage for birth control, and the Supreme Court has opened the door for even more companies to file suit in the future. Read more …
Aura Bogado writes for Color Lines: “Being transgender means one is more likely to suffer poverty, homelessness and criminalization. The violence carried out upon trans and gender non-conforming people lowers their life expectancy. But for those who do make it to middle age, there’s little in the way of resources for housing, employment and healthcare.”
Erica Hellerstein writes for The Atlantic: “I’m here to look for a small, white, hexagonal pill called misoprostol. Also known as miso or Cytotec, the drug induces an abortion that appears like a miscarriage during the early stages of a woman’s pregnancy. For women living in Latin America and other countries that have traditionally outlawed Read more …
Jessica Mason Pieklo writes for RH Reality Check: “You’ve got to hand it to the anti-choice movement. When they picked Eleanor McCullen to be the face of their First Amendment attack on abortion clinic access, they knew exactly what they were doing. The trope of anti-choice protesters as “plump grandmas” helped the media and the Read more …
Sara Shoener writes for the New York Times: “After spending two years studying services for domestic violence survivors, I was surprised to realize that one of the most common barriers to women’s safety was something I had never considered before: the high value our culture places on two-parent families.”