“Psst! 🗣 Birth control should be over-the-counter, pass it on,” freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted last week. Turns out, it

When Sam Gee was a sophomore in high school, their English teacher had a simple request at the beginning of the school year. "If you have a nickname,

The White House announced a new initiative aimed at giving women more seats at the table in global peace efforts, and White House senior advisor Ivanka

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed into law a measure that will allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to perform abortions, a move that

On Monday night, around 600 activists attended a rally to demand justice for Layleen Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old Afro-Latinx transgender woman who

Kirsten Gillibrand sits across from me at a coffee-shop-bar-performance-space in Concord, NH, on a crisp May Saturday morning, and we’re geeking out

A judge issued a preliminary injunction on Monday allowing Missouri's last abortion clinic to remain open for the time being, preventing the state from

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed legislation on Friday to remove a legal barrier that would make it easier for scientists to study the medical benefits

On April 30, two people were killed and four were injured after a gunman opened fire at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Madhavi Krevat's

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a searing indictment of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion care except in cases of

Former Vice President Joe Biden remains against repealing the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of public funds to pay for abortion care, NBC News

After several Republican-led state governments have acted to restrict abortion, women and other people with uteruses have found an unlikely ally in the