Last week, Senator Patty Murray of Washington and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania introduced a bill to overturn the Trump administration’s new contraceptive mandate. Murray advocates that birth control is about being healthy and financially secure, while Trump makes it about ideology. Read more...
The undocumented Texas minor that was being held hostage by the Trump administration was finally granted an abortion by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. The judge spoke out, saying she was astounded that the office was trying to force a girl to carry her pregnancy to term. Read more...
This is a follow-up article about the undocumented Texas minor that finally received her abortion. Read more...
The ACLU shared the D.C. Court of Appeals order to stop the blocking of the undocumented Texas minor’s abortion. Read more...
Earlier this month, the House passed a bill that would ban the majority of abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the bill will get the Senate vote. Read more...
Madagascar’s Senate has plans to debate the modernization of family planning laws in their country. The current laws date back to the 1920s and prohibit any promotion of contraceptives—all contraceptive providers and programs are illegal in the country. Read more...
The Guttmacher Institute concludes that the United States’ family planning safety nets are in jeopardy like never before. Read more...
The Guttmacher Institute reports that abortion is a common experience for women in the United States, even though there was a decline in abortions from 2008 – 2014. Read more...
The Guttmacher Institute looks into the contraceptive rates in the United States from 2008 – 2014. Read more...
This clip from the Rachel Maddow Show highlights a piece on Scott Lloyd, who directs the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the ACLU lawyer, Brigitte Amiri, who represented Jane Doe, the 17-year-old undocumented adolescent in federal custody. Read more...