Photo credit: Washington State House Republicans A group of Eastern Washington students didn’t expect to be quizzed about their virginity by a Republican lawmaker on Monday, but that’s exactly what happened. The group of approximately six students are part of a teen council chapter of Planned Parenthood, and they were visiting their lawmakers to advocate […]
This could become the greatest victory for women’s reproductive healthcare in decades. A large number of individuals and organizations filed 45 legal briefs in the Supreme Court Tuesday – all concluding state laws restricting abortion access are unconstitutional. The Supreme Court case will examine the Texas law, known as HB2, which places unnecessary regulations on the state’s […]
Imagine being denied access to your prescription because it goes against the pharmacist’s sense of morality or religion. Imagine walking into your local pharmacy to pick up your prescription for birth control and the pharmacist tells you they won’t fill it because it goes against their morality or religion. Worse, reports of judgement and slut-shaming […]
South Carolina Democrat attempts to steer the conversation away from abortion. On December 10, 2015 South Carolina Democratic Rep. Mia McLeod filed H. 4544 – a bill that specifies men who want prescriptions for erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra or Cialis would be forced by law to obtain and produce a notarized affidavit from […]
Because of Ohio’s abortion restrictions, one woman was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago to abort her dying fetus. Sheva Guy, 23, a doctoral student from Cincinnati, Ohio said the fetus she was carrying was diagnosed with a fatal spine abnormality. The diagnosis came after a second-trimester ultrasound at about 22 weeks to determine gender. Guy […]