Reproductive rights

"You Better Not F*ck in Texas": Texas Abortion Ban Protest Song

November 5, 2021

Jill Sobule is an acclaimed singer-songwriter. She recently grabbed pen and guitar to lash back at the extreme new Texas law banning abortions after six weeks (with no exceptions).

October 15, 2021

How TV Lied About Abortion

Tanya Melendez Vox

For decades, dramatized plot lines about unwanted and unexpected pregnancies helped create our real-world abortion discourse.

September 6, 2021

SCOTUS Ruling Allows Texas to Deputize Citizens as Anti-Abortion Police

Marjorie Cohn Truthout

“In effect, the Texas Legislature has deputized the State’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedures.”

July 11, 2021

How Teachers Won the Right to Get Pregnant

Christopher Phelps Jacobin

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to successfully change that.

February 15, 2021

Flood of Anti-abortion Legislation Hits Southern Legislatures

Elisha Brown Facing South

Last year, number of states that were categorized as hostile to abortion rights by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health policy think tank — including all of the states across the South: 29

January 25, 2021

Who’s Afraid of the Lower Birth Rate?

Jenny Brown Organizing Upgrade

Rather than looking at abortion as a personal, private decision and defending it on that basis, we should expose how the power structure is using restrictions on abortion and birth control to extract our unpaid labor.

September 15, 2020

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - September 15, 2020

Portside

Disaster reigns, and voters are squaring off. Reporting on climate, health, democratic rights in crisis, and Audre Lorde for sustaining the soul

September 7, 2020

A Pandemic Within The Pandemic

H Patricia Hynes Portside

Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes.

June 22, 2020

The Supreme Court Is About to Make Seismic Rulings on Reproductive Rights

Marjorie Cohn Truthout

The rights of women to terminate their pregnancies and to receive free contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are on the chopping block.

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May 19, 2020

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Profoundly Moving Abortion Drama

Mark Kermode The Guardian

Elliza Hittman’s coming-of-age story about a teenager seeking an abortion is heartbreaking and painfully authentic. Hittman has described her film as “a narrative about a girl carrying around a lot of pain and burden, and the lonliness of it all".

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