Reproductive
In the United States, women’s reproductive rights, gained through half a century of feminist struggle, are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that gave women the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, in 28 states access to abortion has been restricted […]
Gov. Wes Moore (D). Photo by Bryan P. Sears. The Moore administration announced over $15 million in grant awards and a budget proposal aimed to improve reproductive health care and abortion access across Maryland, according to a news release from the governor’s office Monday. The funding announcement comes during an election year when voters will […]
This month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee concluded its review of the United States’ human rights record. Nine years had passed since the Committee’s last review of the U.S. With many urgent issues to address – including gun violence, excessive use of force by law enforcement, climate change, and Guantanamo – the Committee trained
Published June 2, 2023, 12:44 pm CT 2023-06-02 12:44 12:44 June 2, 2023 pm Waning abortion access has dominated conversations around reproductive justice, but a lesser known principle of the movement to maintain bodily and reproductive autonomy is being threatened by a changing climate and a slew of environmental contaminants. One of the main tenets […]
How did you come to be in Sierra Leone in July 2014? I trained as an obstetrician in the UK, and was taking a break from my NHS work, with the intention of working in humanitarian response for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The World Health Organization had recently released an updated report on […]
Source: JEFF KOWALSKY / Getty It’s no secret that the fall of Roe v. Wade has profoundly affected the lives of millions of people across the United States. We constantly face new accounts of women and young girls whose lives and futures hang in the balance because of a lack of proper access to abortion […]
Roberts, a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Periclean Scholars Guest Lecture on Thursday evening in Whitley Auditorium. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, overturning reproductive freedom that had been granted with the Roe v. Wade […]
University of Texas at AustinAustin, Texas 4:04 P.M. CDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. (Applause.) Good afternoon. It is so good to be back at the LBJ, just the library and everything that it means and, of course, the university. But I’m just so thrilled to be with all of you and to be […]
A serpentine man and woman with child, sculpted by Qaunaq Mikkigak of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Photo: Ansgar Walk Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Arctic since time immemorial, establishing rich regional cultures and governance systems long before the introduction of modern borders. The Arctic Institute’s 2022 Colonialism Series explores the colonial histories of Arctic nations and […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will announce new guidelines and grants to protect reproductive rights on Tuesday, and describe how abortion rights have been curtailed since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to terminating pregnancies. He will be speaking at a meeting of the reproductive rights task force, also to […]