Reproductive Health

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing was in support of a bill that seeks to make it illegal to have an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The state already has just one clinic to perform the medical procedure.

The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that roughly 12,000 pregnant women are jailed in the United States each year.

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, Saru Jayaraman and Destiny Lopez connect the dots between securing increased pay for women earning a tipped wage and improved access to reproductive health care.

The “fetal heartbeat” bill would prohibit the procedure for people who are more than six weeks pregnant.

Due to restrictive laws in neighboring states, women nearby could also have the procedure there.

Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes. But if the Trump administration gets its way, we have the most to lose.

But a new federal rule could stand in the way for millions of other women.

The government wants women whose employers object to paying for contraception on religious grounds to rely on a program aimed at keeping lower-incoming earning women healthy.