Election year 2024 will see citizen initiatives on the ballot across the country, some focused on abortion rights. But there’s a growing trend of lawmakers altering initiatives after they have passed.
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Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama had used a long-standing Senate practice to block military promotions.
A 2023 Senate inquiry report described abortion access in Australia as a ‘lottery’. Barbara Baird’s research doesn’t describe chance, but an inadequate system. What needs to change?
This lawsuit is only the latest chapter in a battle between the state and the reproductive health care provider that heated up in 2011.
The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
Democrats regained the Virginia legislature in the 2023 election, and that spells trouble for Republicans seeking to win the White House in 2024.
An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
With the balance of political power at stake in the Virginia legislature, voters in this key swing state may reveal clues for the 2024 presidential election.
Abortion has a long and varied history and remains central to our culture, our lives and even our art.
In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.
From the pre-Roe years to today, country musicians have written about the realities of life with restrictions on reproductive rights.
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
Remote medical care gives privacy and no travel is necessary. What’s needed now is better access to technology. Language barriers also need to be broken down
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is using a long-standing Senate practice to block military promotions.
The National Defense Authorization Act has long had bipartisan support in both houses of Congress. But that died in the House this year.
Women’s rights groups and politicians have pushed, ultimately unsuccessfully, for the Equal Rights Amendment to become part of the Constitution for the past several decades.
The success of the Maputo Protocol in protecting the rights of women and eliminating discrimination is remarkable.
Scientists can create viable eggs from two male mice. In the wake of CRISPR controversies and restrictive abortion laws, two experts start a dialogue on ethical research in reproductive biology.
Even with laws to protect a woman’s right to have an abortion, Black women found it hard to find access to reproductive health care. It’s only gotten worse since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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