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A billboard in McAllen, Texas, in front of Whole Women's Health.

News in Brief

The Future of Abortion Access: An Essential Reading List

The Alabama Senate on Tuesday voted in favor of a measure that would effectively ban abortion in the state. Here's a selection of Pacific Standard stories about recent challenges to abortion access.

Leah Dunlevy

People carry pro-life and pro-choice signs during the 2016 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

News in Brief

Alabama Is Poised to Pass an Outright Ban on Abortion

Georgia's governor has also signed a six-week ban, giving the Supreme Court yet more opportunities to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Rosemary Westwood

A Planned Parenthood sign in Mobile, Alabama.

Social Justice

A New Title X Rule Stripping Sexual Health Access for Millions of Women Could Take Effect Next Week

The future of federal family planning programs will be decided by May 3rd, as four separate lawsuits seek to block the Trump administration's plans to target abortion access.

Rosemary Westwood

Kitty Marion with copies of The Birth Control Review in 1915.

Ideas

Why Did the Suffragettes Write One of Their Fiercest Fighters Out of Their History?

A new biography sheds light on the suffragette movement's attempts to cover up its own more radical past.

Kelley Czajka

Social Justice

How Six-Week Abortion Bans Are Fueling a ‘Radical’ Year for Abortion Law

The bans mark an unprecedented year for abortion legislation—and a potential political turning point.

Rosemary Westwood

Anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly demonstrates with other women against the Equal Rights Amendment in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 4th, 1977.

Social Justice

Why We’re Still Fighting Over the Equal Rights Amendment in 2019

The amendment was originally defeated in the late 1970s, and today's reignited movement to ratify it has much in common with the earlier fight.

Rosemary Westwood

News in Brief

The FDA Just Approved the First-Ever Drug for Postpartum Depression. Who Will Be Able to Afford It?

Women with lower socioeconomic status are among those at a higher risk for developing postpartum depression—and the new treatment is estimated to cost $34,000 per patient.

Rosemary Westwood

The abortion drug Mifepristone, also known as RU486.

Social Justice

What Will Alabama’s ‘Baby Roe’ Lawsuit Mean for the Abortion Debate?

The headline-grabbing wrongful death case over an aborted embryo taps into the "fetal personhood" movement that's currently gaining momentum.

Rosemary Westwood

Social Justice

Another Abortion Fight Looms Over the Texas Legislature

Despite signals that lawmakers wanted to focus on bipartisan issues after a contentious mid-term election, three divisive abortion bills have been proposed.

Marissa Evans

The FDA Issues Warnings to Online Abortion Pill Providers

The FDA writes that failure to immediately cease sales of unapproved versions of mifepristone and misoprostol may result in action.

Rebecca Worby