Gender equality, reproductive rights
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The annual march, which was started in 2017 as a reaction to the election of former President Donald J. Trump, this year is focused on abortion rights.
A decision on a lawsuit in Texas could lead to nationwide mifepristone ban
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The play is a President Donald Trump-era piece of theatre that feels like it was meant to carry forward the energy and solidarity of the 2017 Women’s March
You’ve probably never heard of Anthony Comstock, a Civil War Union soldier and New York Postmaster, who died in 1915. You need to learn about him and his legacy, however, as his long fingers are about to reach up out of the grave and wrap themselves around the necks of every American woman of childb...
Former administration staffer Candice Jackson partnering with Lauren Adams Bone, legal director of ‘radical feminist’ group
The Biden campaign is sharpening its efforts to call out former President Donald Trump for what it casts as “chaos and cruelty” on the issue of abortion as women across the country grapple with a patchwork of tightening restrictions.
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Trump eyes anti-abortion agenda for potential second term Anti-abortion groups and former Trump administration officials are drawing up plans for sweeping abortion restrictions if Donald Trump returns to the White House. © Greg Nash, The Hill The former…
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) didn’t waste any time after the Alabama Supreme Court threatened to upend the political cycle by ruling that frozen embryos are people. Reproductive rights issues had given Democrats a big leg up in 2022 while Republicans struggled to communicate cohesively in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s…
‘At the end of the day it’s all about will of the people,’ the presumptive Republican presidential nominee wrote on his social media site.
In a video post on his social media platform, the former US president said he supported exceptions for rape, incest and to protect the life of the mother. Trump also reiterated that he supports the availability of in-vitro fertilization.
Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speaker
‘They’ve turned the clock to the 1800s’, said the US vice-president as she excoriated ex-president as ‘architect of healthcare crisis’
The relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the South Carolina senator criticized Trump for refusing to support a federal abortion ban.
Former President Donald Trump hit back at claims that he wants to monitor women's pregnancies and prosecute them for having illegal abortions.
Abortion is expected to be on the ballot in Arizona and Florida in November, but the issue is not shaping up to be the boost President Biden needs to win the two states, according to a new poll.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is beating incumbent President Joe Biden's polling in two states where abortion protections are a concern.
Anti-abortion leaders are hoping to convince the Trump campaign to keep abortion language in the GOP platform.
A leading U.S. anti-abortion group has warned Donald Trump against weakening GOP platform language on abortion restrictions. The group, led by Marjorie Dannenfelser, is concerned the platform may exclude federal abortion restrictions, threatening party unity and pro-life enthusiasm before the election. Evangelical leaders also urge Trump to maintain stricter abortion language.
Kamala Harris faces a new political reality in her bid to defeat Donald Trump, as gender politics have radically transformed since Hillary Clinton's loss in 2016.
A warning to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance: Tread carefully when it comes to women, including Vice President Kamala Harris.
A crowd of hundreds called for abortion and LGBTQ+ rights Sunday evening in downtown Chicago, getting a head start on a week of protests before the Democratic National Convention kickoff Monday. Starting with a rally on Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive by the Chicago River, with Trump Tower as a backdrop as the blazing sun […]
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced a proposal to have the government or insurance companies pay for IVF treatments if he is elected. This move appears aimed at regaining support from women voters, amid recent poll struggles. Trump's proposal has sparked debate on women's reproductive rights and insurance coverage.
The reposted comment, originally shared by another user, included photos of Harris and Hillary Clinton with the caption: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…”
With the election now just weeks away, Donald Trump is offering some mixed messages on his abortion stance, especially over the last "whirlwind" day or two, per NBC...
Harris has a commanding lead over Donald Trump among female voters everywhere, including the critical swing states. Her answer would indicate if her administration would gut Title IX protections for women’s sports and green-light gender ideologues who want children and adolescents to have easier access to medical interventions while erecting legal barriers between parents and children.
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump's recent comments about reproductive rights, saying he needs to trust women to make their own decisions.
Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that women don’t need Donald Trump to be their “protector,” but instead need the former president “to trust them” to make their own reproductive decisions.
'Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?' the former first lady writes, as her husband campaigns for president on an anti-abortion platform.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign noted Donald Trump’s role in ending Roe v Wade in a statement reacting to Mrs Trump’s comments.
Melania Trump is reportedly set to voice strong support for reproductive rights, writing in her new memoir that a “woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty” grants her “the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.” In a copy of “Melania” obtained by The Guardian’s Martin Pengelly ahead of its release next Tuesday, the former first lady…
Just weeks before the US election, polls suggest the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains a dead heat. In the key battleground state of Arizona, abortion might be a deciding factor.
Mrs Obama warned that Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House would undermine women’s health and reproductive freedom.
In her first stop on 2024 campaign trail, former first lady Michelle Obama delivered an urgent message to men, arguing that the election could have life or death consequences for the women they love.
The former first lady appeared alongside Kamala Harris at an election rally in Michigan.
During a Harris rally in Michigan on Saturday, the former first lady described the assault on abortion rights as the harbinger of dangerous limitations on healthcare for women
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US Vice President Kamala Harris said that former US President Donald Trump is 'offensive to everybody' after the Republican presidential nominee said that he would protect women 'whether they like it or not'
Allies of former President Donald Trump have highlighted that the Republican nominee could lose Pennsylvania due to higher women early voter turnout.
Commentators have reacted to an ad that suggests women might vote for Kamala Harris and hide it from their Trump-supporting husbands.
Canada’s top general firmly rejected the notion of dropping women from combat roles — a position promoted by president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary — at a security forum underway in Halifax on Saturday.
Trump’s pardons have drawn criticism from abortion rights advocates, who argue the move reflects his strong opposition to abortion access.
MONTREAL — Protesters flooded several blocks in downtown Montreal on Saturday, chanting "shame on you" on the doorstep of the United States Consulate.
"Many people who used to say one thing, have absolutely shifted," French Gates said in an interview this week.
The Supreme Court, the GOP, and religious anti-abortion fanatics have made the country more dangerous and more deadly for women, yet the number of abortions in the U.S. increased in 2024.
A new study found that the fraction of people who got an abortion in their second trimester doubled in states that enforced near-total bans.
The ruling allows states to kick any healthcare provider out of Medicaid just because they offer abortions, and opens the door to banning clinics for providing birth control and gender affirming care.
The Supreme Court’s conservatives issued their latest attack on reproductive health care in “Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.”
Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming support" to protecting the female category in sport.
Charlize Theron delivered fired up remarks Saturday about immigration, LGBTQ and women’s rights and the devastating cuts to foreign aid. “The world feels like it’s burning because it is,” the Oscar winner said at the fifth annual Charlize Theron Africa Outrea…
The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement of the high-profile case that focused on Lia Thomas, who last competed for the Ivy League school in 2022.
University of Pennsylvania removes times set by trans swimmer as part of resolution to civil rights investigation.
The "Big Beautiful Bill" destroys science, freedom, equality, democracy, and collective progress.
When Katie Chubb was pregnant she wanted to have her baby at a birth center, but there was no local option. Now she's trying to open one herself. She has community support, but not from the hospitals.
With DEI programs under attack, leaders can practice the virtue of hospitality as a safe and effective tool for promoting inclusivity.
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We really, really didn't expect this.
“Why would it be something you wouldn't consider criminal as to your own personal decision with your partner, but, as to Lizelle, that personal decision is now homicide?” the ACLU's Lauren Johnson told Jezebel.
IndieWire spoke with three filmmakers about personal storytelling through genre, from a folk monster hungry for breast milk ("Feed") to vaginoplasty administered by a witch ("The Dysphoria") to a vigilante service worker stuck waiting tables mid-abortion ("Th…
These women killed it as the leaders of the free world.
“Erika Kirk has 3 university degrees, she’s a businesswoman and ceo, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her), had kids in her mid 30s,...
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
“In truth, being a conservative woman in law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism…” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said this week. Asteroid?
Where are we going, friends? I’ll pack my bags.
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is 'a deeply neglected crisis'.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace aren’t exactly feminist firebrands, but they didn’t need to be to defy Trump.
Barf Bag: Apparently, being a career-driven female in Manhattan becomes spiritually corrupt only after you’ve successfully leveraged it.
The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that abortion must remain legal in that state, despite a 2023 law seeking to ban it. The case is known as State v. Johnson. Wyoming is America’s reddest state — President Donald Trump won Wyoming by 46 points in 2024…
The Pentagon has ordered a review into the “effectiveness" of women in ground combat positions. Welp.
National abortion numbers were expected to fall after the Dobbs ruling ended federal protections - instead, they increased. The post Abortions increased post...
In addition to adding to the list of groups that will lose funding for providing or discussing abortion, the policy now also calls for ending aid to groups that embrace DEI.
At the March for Life rally, JD Vance touted his sex life while promising anti-abortion activists more attacks on reproductive rights.
Experts say the Trump administration is using foreign aid to impose anti-human rights ideology globally
One human rights expert told Jezebel that the expanded rule pushes Trump’s agenda “of conditioning previously apolitical funding to control people’s bodies and decimate human rights internationally.”
Hint: The answer starts with “mid” and ends with “terms.”
MS Now reports that anti-abortion extremists have been emboldened by the DOJ’s decision to limit enforcement of a 1994 law meant to protect reproductive health clinics from violence.
Restoration of America Foundation CEO Doug Truax is urging the Trump administration to end a Biden administration FDA policy that he says is driving around...
“These girls are experiencing high-risk pregnancies and are some of the most medically vulnerable people in detention,” Zain Lakhani, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel.
At least half of these unaccompanied migrant kids are rape victims, and all are being denied adequate medical care for high-risk pregnancies in a state with sky-high maternal mortality rates.
As the Trump admin urges folks to have more kids, new data shows early pregnancy care moving in the wrong direction
That's how researcher Beatriz Garcia Nice describes the new U.S. stance under the Trump administration to programs addressing gender-based violence.
A strong majority of Americans support reproductive rights and equal pay, and the ERA would establish in law 21<sup>st</sup> century equality
The Trump Administration on Friday asked Missouri to pause or dismiss its lawsuit against the FDA over mifepristone. Sounds like someone's getting more and more concerned about the midterms.
If he loses, he has to stop trying to ban the abortion pill. If I lose, then at least I'm spared from hearing him talk about it ever again.
Title X is a 56-year-old federal grant program that supports thousands of clinics that provide birth control and STI testing and treatment around the country. Now those clinics could face a funding gap because of a Trump administration delay.
DHS on Wednesday released data on how many pregnant people ICE has unlawfully detained since 2025.
Conservatives says the "problem" is fewer teen pregnancies. But the solution is actually fixing childcare
Teen birth rates are at historic lows — and young women want to keep it that way
“It’s all of a piece of disguising what’s really at stake in communicating to women about pregnancy,” Emily Martin, chief program officer at the National Women’s Law Center, told Jezebel.
Florida's attorney general says the NFL's Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview minority candidates for top jobs, is discriminatory. Trump's EEOC has challenged such policies elsewhere.
Wilson entered the national spotlight after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invited him to give a roughly 15-minute sermon inside the Pentagon in February 2026, carried on internal Pentagon TV. Repo…
Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced on Instagram that she had joined the thousands of American women who freeze their eggs every year, a number that has been steadily growing for the past decade. “This is a choice that I am making…
The BBC spoke to working mothers about the challenges of a high-pressure career and making time for family.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began documenting her fertility treatments on Instagram, the backlash from the right was swift. To certain culture warriors, voluntary motherhood is an affront to biology — and an inexcusable expression of choice.
The press secretary announced she was leaving office earlier this month, saying she “cannot be the best mom” while in her role. It’s part of a larger tradeoff women in Trump’s White House have always faced.
Many women who backed the Republican incumbent for years now point to her role in confirming Brett Kavanaugh
Because of a data lag, the current reality of access may be even worse.
This shows “a systemic failure to monitor and track urgent pregnancy-related healthcare concerns and ensure that those women receive proper treatment and care,” the Women’s Refugee Commission’s Zain Lakhani explained.
Nationally, abortion has faded as a campaign issue. Four years after it helped Democrats stave off a red wave, candidates in battleground races are focusing their attention on cost-of-living issues, immigration, and policing. As of mid-August, abortion was me…
“Trump’s decision to put anti-abortion extremists like Heidi Overton and Nicole Saphier in powerful positions at HHS is no accident,” Mini Timmaraju at Reproductive Freedom for All told Jezebel.
GORHAM, Maine (AP) — For years, Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Susan Collins was enough to persuade Erin Evans to vote for Maine's longtime U.S. senator, believing that the moderate Republican would protect abortion access. Evans is now “just furious wi…
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. On Monday, the E…
A new report says the White House told the DOJ to stand down on carrying out its anti-abortion agenda until after the midterms. Which, um... how much worse could this all get?
While debating Troy Jackson in the first of four debates on Tuesday, Collins had the audacity to claim she’s the more reproductive-rights-friendly candidate of the two.
“The administration is delaying this report because attacks on medication abortion will backfire with voters, but extremists will try to ban abortion as soon as the election is over.”