The Trump administration’s reliance on anti-abortion junk science became apparent this week. Also, Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Nancy Pelosi to smile more.
Author: Kylie Cheung
Kylie Cheung writes about reproductive and survivor justice, and is the author of Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy, available Aug. 15.
Feminists Across the Country Talked Back During Trump’s State of the Union
Trump’s speech was notably void of references to women’s rights—but across the country, women were listening, watching and fighting back.
War on Women Report No. 13
The Trump administration this week continued advancing an anti-immigrant, anti-abortion and increasingly isolationist agenda. Meanwhile, a new report on Trump’s manterruptions of Theresa May (disappointingly) surprised no one.
Tammy Duckworth’s Historic Pregnancy is a Reminder: We Need More Women in Politics
Duckworth’s pregnancy is good news for all women—as it marks the beginning of a critical dialogue about the need for more women in politics, and for better conditions for all pregnant working women.
Student Activists and Lawmakers Want to Bring Medication Abortion to California Campuses
A student government resolution passed two years ago at UC Berkeley inspired legislation that would require public colleges in California to offer medication abortion in campus health centers.
It Stops Now: Justice Has Finally Been Served to Larry Nassar’s Victims
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina sentenced Larry Nassar, a now-disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor accused of sexual assault and abuse by over 160 girls and women, to up to 175 years in prison—telling him she had “just signed [his] death warrant.”
War on Women Report No. 12
The Trump administration unleashed no-holds-barred attacks on abortion rights, the trans community and immigrants and refugees this week.
WATCH: The #MeToo PSA Made Entirely By Women
A new PSA released by Women in Motion Pictures, a feminist collective of female filmmakers and actors, explores the scope of sexual harassment and its devastating effects on women and girls—in Hollywood and beyond.
War on Women Report No. 11
This week, the Trump administration escalated attacks on immigrants and refugees—and the President himself flat-out refused to say he wasn’t a racist. Plus, lawmakers are coming together in solidarity with the dozen women who have accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault.
This Extreme Ballot Measure Campaign Shows The True Intentions of the Anti-Abortion Movement
In the state of California, anti-abortion activists want to put a sweeping measure on the November 2018 ballot classifying all abortions, without exception, as first-degree murder.