Republicans are determined to push on with their investigation of Planned Parenthood, even after a Texas grand jury cleared the organization of wrongdoing on Monday and instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who targeted the family planning provider in a series of undercover videos.

I stay because, as my mother never stopped repeating, I am my own woman, but also my own man. By Habibe Jafarian, translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh.

Alice Duer Miller's analysis of contemporary politics not only made anti-suffragist politicians look stupid. It also made her (and women like her) look completely capable of participating in the political sphere.

Art makes the world, and it can break us. By Rebecca Solnit.

The clinic is still months from being operational but protesters have already started to return: ‘No one deserves to go through what they have gone through, even though they put themselves in harm’s way’

When I look at what women face giving birth in America today, I notice some historical issues resurfacing. We've come a long way over the past century, but there's a long journey ahead before pregnancy and childbirth are safe for every mother. What surprises me the most is that the United States is the only developed country whose maternal mortality has been consistently on the rise since 1990.

A Unified Theory on Female Madness in Cinema and American Culture.By Angelica Jade.

I Don’t Care If They Call a Warhawk “Cankles.” By Amber A’Lee Frost. (Dec. 3)

The right’s takeover of the GOP mainstreamed a call to violence.

Irise International works to support the education and empowerment of women and girls in East Africa through addressing the neglected issue of menstrual hygiene management. In this series of blogs,...

Whilst performing a study, researchers stumbled across horror stories they felt compelled to share. The result was “When There’s a Heartbeat: Miscarriage Management in Catholic-Owned Hospitals.” Within it, you will hear stories like this:

Some states are subsidizing medically questionable crisis pregnancy centers, while moving to strip funding from comprehensive health care providers.

Savita Halappanavar died three years ago today. She died of septicaemia. She died from a drawn-out miscarriage that went untreated too long. She died after spending a week in hospital. Savita may have died of blood poisoning, but she was killed by the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. Two decades of Irish governments have blood on their hands. They were too cowardly to legislate to protect pregnant people’s lives.

Larry Solomon of Biblical Gender Roles suggested that Christian husbands should use what he calls the 'there’s the door' method.

The Cut spoke to seven doctors who practiced on the cusp of Roe; they began providing abortions before Roe or in the five years immediately following the ruling of January 22, 1973. As medical students, they witnessed women dying from illegal, often self-induced abortions; as underground practitioners, they risked their livelihoods. Since legalization, they’ve watched the rise of anti-abortion extremism, with bombings, assassinations, and attacks occurring in clinics around the country.

During her shift at Portland, Oregon’s Purringtons Cat Lounge on Sunday, Mary Numair looked out the street-facing windows and saw a woman carrying a sign.

There are very few feminist homophobes in the world, which makes sense: Those who seek to deprive gay people of their fundamental rights are rarely eager to enact laws respecting women’s dignity and autonomy. That near-truism is playing out in Florida—where, not content to debase just gays, the legislature is now considering a bill that demeans both gays and women in creative and innovative ways.

The legal victory for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast means the organization can continue providing care for 5,200 Medicaid patients in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society admits what she opposes is "sex for recreation, sex for mere pleasure"