How Much Jail Time?
Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking...
View ArticleAfternoon Roundup: Miscarriage as Murder in Georgia, Working Mothers Make...
Miscarriage, oops, I mean “prenatal murder” in Georgia; Choose Life plates in North Carolina; and according to a new study mothers who work outside the home are actually making our children sick!...
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Abortion is Legal: So Why is Self-Abortion Care a Crime?
Last week, a 20-year-old woman in New York City was arrested on charges of “self-induced abortion” and faces first-degree misdemeanor charges. Initial news reports indicate that she intentionally...
View ArticleNow It’s Clear: “Pro-Life” Means “Pro-Imprisonment”
Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court agreed to consider an amicus (friend of the court) brief filed by the Liberty Counsel in support of the prosecutions of Hope Ankrom and Amanda Kimbrough. The...
View ArticleWhat’s the Answer to Abortion in the Age of the Prison-Industrial Complex?...
A mini-documentary on YouTube from 2007 has recently gotten a new lease on life. The filmmaker asks protesters outside of a women’s health clinic in Libertyville, Illinois whether they think abortion...
View ArticleMy Letter to Delegates at AIDS 2012
Cross-posted in partnership from the HIV Human Rights blog and part of RH Reality Check’s coverage of the International AIDS Conference, 2012. “A friend of mine was refused entry into the United...
View ArticleHIV Will Claim More Lives Next Year, Because This Year We Won’t Be Heard and...
Cross-posted in partnership from the HIV Human Rights blog and part of RH Reality Check’s coverage of the International AIDS Conference, 2012. I dreamed of coming to Washington to speak at AIDS 2012....
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Jamie Lynn Russell: One Pregnant Woman’s Tragic Death Reveals the Human Cost...
Read additional 2013 coverage of the personhood of women here. I don’t like war metaphor. I prefer to think about reproductive justice advocacy in terms of healing and love. But when our nonsensical...
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New Study Shows Anti-Choice Policies Leading to Widespread Arrests of and...
Read additional 2013 coverage on the personhood of women here. The full table of contents for Volume 38, No. 2, of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law can be found here. Articles in this...
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Policing African-American Motherhood From Every Angle
This post is part of Still Wading: Forty years of resistance, resilience and reclamation in communities of color, a series by Strong Families commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade. A study...
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GOP Governor Opposed to Needle Exchange Programs Changes Tune During HIV...
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) this week declared a public health emergency for Scott County, a rural part of the state that has seen an alarming number of new HIV cases in the past few months, all of...
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Pennsylvania Lawmaker Wants to Withhold Food Benefits From Former Drug Convicts
Pennsylvania residents convicted of felony drug crimes could be denied food by the state after completing their prison sentences, under a Republican-sponsored bill that advocates say is both mean...
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HIV Drug Price Increase Brings ‘Price Gouging’ to the Forefront
Pharmaceutical company Turing came under fire last week after the New York Times reported Turing had raised by about 5,000 percent the price of an old drug used to treat an infection that can be...
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Blames Voters for Failures of Democratic Party
Rarely do politicians appear to go out of their way to alienate their core constituencies. It is even more rare that they do so in the course of an election cycle in which they play a critical role,...
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Maine Governor and Chris Christie Ally Faces Firestorm Over ‘Racist’ Remarks
Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) is facing a wave of criticism for making what many have deemed racist comments during a town hall meeting, leading to calls for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a...
View ArticleKyiv AIDS Forum is a Bridge Between Decision-Makers in DC and Communities of...
Watch the HIV Human Rights interview with Dasha Ocheret, from the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, Lithuania. “Delegates of AIDS 2012 have to know how cancellation of 11 round of Global Fund funding...
View ArticleJamie Lynn Russell: One Pregnant Woman’s Tragic Death Reveals the Human Cost...
Read additional 2013 coverage of the personhood of women here. I don’t like war metaphor. I prefer to think about reproductive justice advocacy in terms of healing and love. But when our nonsensical...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Anti-Choice Policies Leading to Widespread Arrests of and...
Read additional 2013 coverage on the personhood of women here. The full table of contents for Volume 38, No. 2, of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law can be found here. On Tuesday, January...
View ArticlePolicing African-American Motherhood From Every Angle
This post is part of Still Wading: Forty years of resistance, resilience and reclamation in communities of color, a series by Strong Families commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade. A study...
View Article‘Evicted’: How Renters, Especially Poor Black Women, Are Locked Out
When Harvard sociology professor and 2015 MacArthur Fellow Matthew Desmond moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to study housing policy, homelessness, and the politics of eviction, he came to a conclusion...
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