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Hamer’s inclusion of sterilization in a hearing primarily organized to ensure the protection of Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers and lay the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act highlighted how both the right to vote and reproductive freedom were necessary for justice for Black women in Mississippi.

The safest place for contraception to be is in the mainstream of medical care—available through your regular doctor and local pharmacy and covered, like all other needed health services, by your insurance provider.

Women's reproductive rights remain under assault, fueled by entrenched religious and right wing ideology.

New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively

Organizer: 'When you are hurting, you need to be around some people who still believe in the possibility of us being one people'.

Alarmingly, the Lone Star state has plenty of company when it comes to extreme measures that will harm women and families.

Fans of Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose marathon filibuster stopped an anti-abortion bill in its tracks, are expressing their sentiments in Amazon reviews of the shoes that Wendy wore.

Decision means state will continue to provide basic reproductive healthcare to low-income women.

Here’s the good news: Women vote, and they won’t stand for these attempts to shove us back to the 50’s.