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Access to telehealth abortion services has expanded greatly throughout the pandemic. The inclusion of telehealth options in Power to Decide’s Abortion Finder tool allows patients to find out with a few clicks if they can get abortion pills mailed using telehealth.
While news outlets have been obsessed with much-touted infighting between factions of the Democratic party while negotiating President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan, they’ve completely missed the real villains.
Big surprise: It’s big business—specifically big oil—and their single-minded focus: Kill the climate change provisions.
Ms. has always understood: Feminist movements around the world hold answers to some of the U.S.’s most intractable problems. Ms. Global is taking note of feminists worldwide.
This week: Japan’s lower house has fewer women despite its empowerment law; despite disapproval from the Biden administration, Israel will build over 3,000 new homes in the West Bank; Barbados prepares to “fully leave our colonial past behind”; a historic bill in Sierra Leone mandates tat women occupy 30 percent of Cabinet posts and Parliament seats; and more.
If the Build Back Better Act becomes law, the United States will no longer be the only industrialized nation without a federal paid leave policy.
“It is long overdue that the United States joins the rest of the world and makes a commitment to enact permanent, comprehensive and inclusive paid family and medical leave for all,” writes Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) in this op-ed.
Build Back Better’s provisions to lower childcare costs, improve the quality of early education and increase wages will provide immediate relief to families hit hardest by the pandemic.
The more than 1 million moms still out of the workforce will begin to return to work, and others will be able to increase their hours and earnings.
“Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg” is the memoir that Ginsburg never wrote. The exhibit now at The New York Historical Society traces her life through objects, audio recordings and photographs.
With the international climate talks beginning in Glasgow, the narrative around climate continues to be dominated by governments and corporate lobbies, rather than by frontline communities and civil society.
Without women—especially Indigenous and rural women, whose communities are most affected by climate change—climate justice will not go far.
The release of the first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality Strategy is an ambitious plan. But ambitious priorities require a significant budget to match, in order for them to take root.
We were undocumented immigrants from Brazil living in a small apartment in Queens. As a girl, my mother’s parting words to my brother and me were the same every morning. “I love you. Have a great day. Be invisible.”
Today, I’m an American citizen, the second lady of Pennsylvania and the founder of three nonprofits that support underrepresented communities. But I still know in my bones the terror of living in the shadows.
It’s time for the Senate to step up, pass the Dream and Promise Act and stop using Dreamers as bargaining chips.
If Roe v. Wade falls, 26 states will likely ban abortion, forcing pregnant women to travel long distances to reach their nearest abortion clinics—if they can afford it.
Clinics in destination states would be unlikely to have the capacity to accommodate all the new patients and that many destination states also have onerous restrictions that increase barriers to abortion, such as waiting periods, two-trip requirements and parental consent.