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American conservatives’ latest safari — an anti-women, anti-LGBTQ tour of Africa

Earlier this month, the Africa Christian Professionals Forum, a membership-based organization whose stated mission is to build “a society that upholds our Biblical values,” put on the Pan-African Conference on Family Values in Nairobi, Kenya. …

by Allan Olingo

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Can South Korean politics make way for it’s ‘Light Stick Revolutionaries?’

Korean women have helped topple governments but still have trouble gaining political office.

by Hawon Jung

This article was co-published with Foreign Policy.

Reporter’s Notebook: One Woman Who Dares To Speak Out

I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and jeopardized women’s lives. During that time, I’ve interviewed…

by Jodi Enda

CSW69 — Women’s Rights at a Crossroads

As leaders gather for CSW69 three decades after the Beijing Declaration, will commitments turn into action, or will hard-won gains be lost?

by Allan Olingo

‘It’s which door she walks through’: How provider preference and hospital culture drive C-section rates

A third of low-risk women in Mississippi are undergoing surgery for their first birth — far beyond the WHO’s max rate of 15%

by Erica Hensley

How major abortion laws compare, state by state

Access to abortion in the U.S. depends on where you live. Increasingly, the South and Midwest are becoming complete abortion deserts.

The draft abortion ruling that shook the states

Five things to help make sense of what it means.

With the Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade, New York prepares to become an abortion safe haven

In the wake of a leaked decision by Justice Alito gutting abortion rights, New York state lawmakers have introduced measures to expand access for the expected influx of abortion seekers.

Co-published with THE CITY

Where democracy falters, so do reproductive rights

Where populist authoritarianism is on the rise, anti-abortion politics aren’t far behind.

by Hanna Kozlowska

Co-published with Foreign Policy

The South’s abortion battle has a new front: telemedicine

A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last…

by Erica Hensley

Co-published with Reckon

It’s not just Texas and Mississippi: Abortion access is in jeopardy across the Deep South

As all eyes turn to the landmark case before the Supreme Court, advocates in the South say they’ve been sounding the alarm on access for years.

by Erica Hensley

This story was co-published with Reckon.

‘It Felt So Freeing’: Why Young Women Are Dropping the Pill

As the pill’s 60th anniversary approaches outside of the U.S., young women and people with wombs are increasingly interrogating the lack of information doctors provide about side effects when prescribing the pill and calling for…

by Louise Donovan

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Poland’s abortion rights protests lead to a louder call for gender equity

Women across Poland have been at the heart of a protest movement railing against a ruling that would ban most abortions — the country’s largest protests since the end of Communism 30 years ago. Now…

by Paulina Reiter

This piece was published in partnership between Les Glorieuses and The Fuller Project.

‘We know it’s the work of quack doctors’: Pandemic fans the flames of backstreet abortions in Kenya

Anecdotal reports suggest teenage pregnancies are soaring in Kenya, resulting in unsafe late-term terminations and abandoned babies.

by Louise Donovan & Nasibo Kabale

This piece was published in partnership with the Telegraph, Kenya’s Daily Nation and The Fuller Project.

Could the coronavirus make telemedicine abortion the new normal?

During the coronavirus pandemic, telemedicine abortion has become a way of bringing providers directly into patients’ homes, bypassing clinics altogether. Could this become the new normal?

by Anna Louie Sussman

This article was originally published in ELLE.

Wisconsin’s Catholic Hospitals Limit Reproductive Procedures

In reproductive care, critics argue, Catholic ethics can trump medical best practice and patients can be denied the care they desire or need.

by Rikha Sharma Rani and Parker Schorr

This article was originally published in The Washington Post.

Catholics Run One-Third of Wisconsin Hospitals, Putting Many Reproductive Procedures Off-Limits

When Ascension’s St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee announced it would cut back services in 2018, residents of the surrounding Sherman Park area balked. The predominantly black, low-income neighborhood already faced its share of challenges. Nearly…

by Parker Schorr and Rikha Sharma Rani

This article was originally published in Wisconsin Watch.

One-Fifth of Women Don’t Know if Abortion Is Illegal in Kenya, New Study Shows

A new study by Marie Stopes Kenya showed that 20.7 per cent of women seeking abortion services in Nairobi “do not know” whether the process is illegal.

by Louise Donovan

This article was originally published in The Daily Nation.

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