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Reproductive Rights

Hundreds of Lawmakers and Organizations Demand State Dept. Stop Excluding Women's Rights From Human Rights Reports

Sign reads: "Women's rights are human rights."

Demanding End to Trump's Devastating Budget Cuts, US Aid Workers Protest First Lady's Photo-Op in Malawi

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We see firsthand in Malawian hospitals the shocking effect the budget cuts may ultimately have."

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'Totally Disqualifying': Demands for Kavanaugh to Withdraw After Letter Details Alleged Sexual Assault

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill

The New Yorker provides information on contents of letter Sen. Dianne Feinstein...

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Evidence of Kavanaugh Perjury Mounts After Durbin Releases More "Confidential" Documents

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This is a theme that we see emerge with Judge Kavanaugh time and time again—he...

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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) appeared satisfied with Judge Brett Kavanaugh's statement last month that Roe vs. Wade is "settled law"—but revelations in his confirmation hearings have shown that he believes the law could be overruled by the Supreme Court.

Fund to Unseat Susan Collins in 2020 Climbs to $500,000 as Leaked Doc Offers New Evidence Kavanaugh Clear Threat to Roe v. Wade

On Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) pointedly asked Judge Brett Kavanaugh whether he could think of any laws that govern a man's control over his own body, as anti-choice laws in a number of states bar women from controlling their own reproductive systems.

Unable to Come Up with Any Laws Wielding Control Over a Man's Body, Kavanaugh Dismisses Pro-Choice Movement as One Based in 'Feelings'

The women's advocacy group UltraViolet ended the first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing with a visual statement regarding his historic unpopularity displayed on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Activists Project 'Roe v. Wade More Popular Than Kavanaugh' on U.S. Supreme Court

Women dressed as handmaids from the TV series and Margaret Atwood novel "The Handmaid's Tale" greeted Judge Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing to be named the next U.S. Supreme Court justice.

'I Came to Put My Body On the Line': Both Inside and Outside Hearing, Women Lead Fight Against Kavanaugh Confirmation

Trump Drastically Cuts Funding Period for Family Planning Clinics as Administration Aims to Impose 'Domestic Gag Rule'

#WhipTheVote: Progressives Launch Campaign to Pressure 24 Democrats Who Still Haven't Vowed to Oppose Kavanaugh

Nationwide Day-of-Action Described as Largest of Its Kind in US History Says This: Stop Kavanaugh!

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#UniteForJustice: As Impeachment Speculation Mounts, Stop Kavanaugh Protests Planned Nationwide

In Wake of Anti-Choice Senate Vote, Argentines Join Movement to Abandon Catholic Church

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Senate Dems Threaten Suit to Get Kavanaugh Records as Poll Shows Trump Nominee Least Popular in Decades

A young legal abortion activist holds up a sign in front of the National Congress Building while senators vote for the new abortion law on August 8, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

'How Many More Women Have to Die?" Days After Bill Rejected, Argentine Woman Dies From At-Home Abortion

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Healthcare Activist Ady Barkan, Reproductive Rights Leaders Call on Collins and GOP Colleagues to #StopKavanaugh

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Not Counseling: Enabling the Screamers and Haters and Devout Plastic Fetus Throwers

Today's SCOTUS ruling against Massachusetts' buffer zones around abortion clinics - issued from within SCOTUS' own legally protected buffer zone - has met with swift outrage from pro-choice forces appalled that the court took seriously the "pro-life" argument their "gentle...sidewalk counselors" merely seek to "engage in personal, caring, consensual conversations with women." Under the quickly created Twitter hashtags #NotCounseling and #ClinicEscort, angry pro-choice women told the real story...

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National Abortion Federation

Statement of The Very Reverend Katherine H. Ragsdale, Interim President & CEO of the National Abortion Federation

ACLU

Call For An End To The Trump Administration’s No-Abortion Policy for Immigrant Teens

NARAL Pro-Choice America

Kavanaugh Meets Trump’s Litmus Test and Will End Roe v Wade

National Abortion Federation

Longtime NAF President & CEO Announces Plans to Retire in June 2019

National Abortion Federation

National Abortion Federation Releases 2017 Violence & Disruption Statistics

Amnesty International - USA

El Salvador: Failure to Decriminalize Abortion is a Terrible Blow to Human Rights

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John Buell

Men’s Bodies and the Politics of Abortion

D-L Nelson

Abortion Can't Be Stopped

Senti Sojwal

Where Are All Of The Pro-Choice Men?

Bill Blum

Brett Kavanaugh and the Triumph of the Conservative Counterrevolution

Ilyse Hogue

Why Defeating Brett Kavanaugh Is the Pivotal Fight of Our Lifetime

Hannah Leibson, Rebecca Hare Cokley

Kavanaugh Thinks It’s Okay to Perform Elective Surgery on People Without Their Consent

Eileen McCabe

We Are All Pro-Choice

Cecile Richards

Conservatives Are Fighting to Roll Back Abortion Rights. And They're Winning

Elizabeth Warren

Trump’s New Proposal Is Another Attempt By The Government to Control Women’s Bodies

Layidua Salazar

I’m an Undocumented Taxpayer. Here’s How My Taxes Are Used Against My Values.

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