Democrats say investigation of women’s rights group over claims it was involved in fetal tissue trade is politically motivated and wasteful

A new report released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project — a research group based at the University of Texas at Austin that’s been tracking the state’s reproductive health policy over the past four years — finds that recent clinic shutdowns have greatly limited access to timely abortions statewide. In some cases, women had to wait nearly a month to be seen. In others, clinics had to turn women away, since they had no available appointment slots open.

You don’t have to be pro-choice. A lot of people aren’t. But you do have to be pro-truth. We can’t base public policy on a pack of lies. And lies were the rickety basis for the cringe-worthy political theater that took place this week in a Republican-driven House committee hearing. In their tireless efforts to paint Planned Parenthood as agents of Satan, congressional zealots relied on fake charts, doctored videos, bogus statistics and mock outrage. Lies.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards testifying today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform... committee chair Jason Chaffetz (a Utah Republican) took a shot specifically at Richards' salary

Why as a feminist I support Zunera Ishaq

In a report released yesterday, entitled “Cyber Violence Against Women And Girls: A Global Wake-up Call,” UN Women, the group behind last year’s risible “He for She” campaign, called on governments to use their “licensing prerogative” to ensure that “telecoms and search engines” are only “allowed to connect with the public” if they “supervise content and its dissemination.”

The feminazi is a beloved oxymoronic portmanteau, but we wanted to know if real self-identified feminist Nazis actually exist. Through white supremacist forums and high water, we set out in search of the mythical beasts.

Circumcision is a common practice in the United States – but should it be? Here, hilarious vlogger Justin Dennis tells us why this is a feminist issue – and why we should think twice before circumcising our kids.

The Republican attack on Planned Parenthood is not only immoral, it is expensive.

From a harm reduction standpoint, safe haven laws are an ideal way to prevent infant death and mistreatment without ignoring the reality that some mothers, for one reason or another, won’t consider formal adoption or parenthood viable options. But a recent book by Laury Oaks, chair of the feminist studies department at University of California–Santa Barbara, argues that they fall short of true reproductive justice.

Two of the major anti-Planned Parenthood talking points, which anti-choicers have disseminated through mainstream media, are about advancing the idea that any sexual health services that aren't about making babies doesn't count as real health care.

Canadian comedian Nicole Arbour thinks she’s ‘hella brave’ for telling fat people to eat less and exercise more. Here’s my message for any woman who agrees with her …

March for Life is trying to frame their objections to affordable contraception in terms of abortion, making the same tedious and utterly false argument that some kinds of contraception are equivalent to abortion. "It opposes methods of contraception that it says can amount to abortion, including hormonal products, intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives," the New York Times reports.

Whether or not Labrie actually forced himself on the girl, the defense was able to successfully tap into two major rape myths that are widespread despite having little to no real world evidence to support them: That women reclassify consensual sex as “rape” in order to preserve their reputations and that rape victims always act traumatized and freak out at the mere sight of their rapist after the fact.

Now that the repressive hereditary monarchy allows women the narrowest possible right to vote, here are some other empty reforms the kingdom might consider.

Nadia Vera, 32, a proud feminist and social activist, was murdered in her flat in Mexico City along with four other women last month. Three of them, including Vera and her journalist friend Rubén Espinosa (both pictured above), were allegedly raped and tortured before being shot in the head. Many believe they were targeted because they dared to demand equal rights for women across the country, attending protests, staging plays and writing politically charged poems.

Healthcare organization appears to be weathering investigations launched after the release of a series of ‘sting’ videos by anti-abortion activists

Trump’s ugly bombast is a distraction from a far more serious problem for the GOP. Three years after Romney lost the women’s vote by a double-digit margin, in part because of his support for defunding Planned Parenthood, the presidential debates last week made clear Republicans have only become more disrespectful toward women’s bodies, more deranged in their hatred of Planned Parenthood and more dismissive of female voters.

Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to eliminate funding Sept. 2

Research illustrates why men prefer cooler temperatures - and how that's a problem for mixed gender offices and other environments.