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New York Proposes Bill to Blunt Effects of ‘Hobby Lobby’
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, along with several other Democratic leaders in the state, announced late Thursday that they are proposing a bill to mitigate the effects of the Supreme...
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Legal Wrap: New Legal Fights Shaping Up Post-‘Hobby Lobby’
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. The dust is still settling from the Supreme Court’s disastrous ruling in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, but it’s safe to say...
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Why the Right Will Reject the Administration’s Latest Birth Control ‘Fix’
Read more of our coverage on the Wheaton College case here. In predictable fashion, almost as soon as the Obama administration released its latest tweak to the birth control benefit of the Affordable...
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Death by 1,000 Cuts: The Right’s Legal Strategy to Undermine Health-Care Reform
Read more of our coverage on challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit here. Attorneys representing Missouri Rep. Paul Wieland argued before the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals...
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This Week in Sex: Chicago Parents Worried About Sex Ed, New Research on...
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. Sex Ed Presentation Worries Chicago Parents The contents of a...
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Legal Wrap: States Start Sessions With Rush of Anti-Abortion Measures
Legal Wrap is a round-up of the latest legal and reproductive justice headlines. RJ Court Watch is back! In the first episode of 2015, Imani Gandy and I talk about the Purvi Patel conviction and how...
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Family Planning Initiatives Must Focus on People, Not Numbers
In recent years, family planning experts have undertaken a number of major policy efforts to shine a spotlight on reproductive health worldwide. With this renewed focus on the power and promise of...
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LGBTQ Youth Deserve ‘Real Education’ About Sexuality
This piece is published in collaboration with Echoing Ida, a Forward Together project. A recent study published in the American Public Health Journal found that New York City youth who identify as...
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Obama Administration Notches Another Win in Fight Over Contraception Coverage
The Obama administration picked up another legal victory Tuesday as a federal appeals court ruled that employers’ religious rights are not substantially burdened by completing the paperwork in order to...
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Supreme Court Takes Up Challenges to Obamacare Birth Control Benefit
The Supreme Court on Friday announced it would review a series of cases brought by religiously affiliated nonprofits challenging the accommodation process for complying with the Affordable Care Act’s...
View ArticleCongress’ Latest Attack on Planned Parenthood Would Hit Low-Income People...
We’ve seen this play out before: Ideologically driven state legislators slash state funding for family planning or prohibit clinics affiliated with an abortion provider from receiving certain sources...
View ArticleAdvocates and Female Condom Maker Spar Over Changes to Access
In June, Veru Healthcare, the manufacturer of the female condom, changed how consumers can access its product. It is no longer available for purchase on drugstore shelves but can now be obtained...
View ArticleOn College Campuses, Students Push for Free Condoms
When Boston College student Connor Kratz came out as a freshman, he realized he didn’t have any tools available on campus to learn more about sexual health and staying safe. “I didn’t have the...
View ArticleThis Week in Sex: Even With Less Hormones, the Pill Still Lowers Ovarian...
This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. Lower-Dose Can Still Mean Lower Chances of Ovarian Disease A...
View ArticleConservatives Say They Want to End Abortions. The ‘Gag Rule’ Will Do the...
Over the summer, the Trump administration’s new rule regarding Title X, the federal family planning program that is designed to help low-income and other underserved groups obtain contraception,...
View ArticleFinally, a New Barrier Method Contraception Is on the Horizon
In the past few decades, a number of new, innovative birth control methods have hit the market. Most of them, however, rely on hormones in one way or another; people who can’t or prefer not to use...
View ArticleWhat LGBTQ-Positive Sex Ed Should Look Like
This Pride Month, Rewire.News recognizes that celebrating during the pandemic will look very different for many of us, which is why we’re putting together tools of resistance and hope to help us all...
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