In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Renate Klein about the harms of surrogacy.
Tag: reproductive justice
New York State rushed through a bill legalizing commercial surrogacy despite ongoing opposition from women’s groups.
COVID-19 restrictions are pushing pregnant women into hospitals, but many are rebelling and choosing home birth or freebirth regardless.
“We can’t do this as individuals — we have to do this as sisters.”
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Mary Lou Singleton, a midwife, nurse practitioner, and reproductive sovereignty activist about everything from self-abortion to midwifery to where the reproductive rights movement went wrong.
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Civia Tamarkin, director of “Birthright: A War Story,” a new documentary looking at the attack on women’s reproductive rights in the U.S.
On May 31, the Dominican Senate voted to uphold a total ban on abortion. Even in cases of rape and incest, and when the woman’s life is in danger.
Yesterday, the Indiana appellate court heard oral arguments from Purvi Patel’s lawyers, appealing her conviction on charges of feticide and neglect of a dependent. Patel was arrested in 2013, after she sought…
Ever since Brie Ripley was young, she knew she didn’t want to reproduce. But despite her struggles with other birth control methods, doctors refused to allow her access to a tubal ligation…
A total ban on abortion has been reaffirmed in the Dominican Republic. “Total,” meaning that even if you are a teenage girl dying from leukemia and the only thing preventing doctors from…
Who gives birth? The answer used to be: females. Today, it’s considered politically incorrect to say that it is women, specifically, who get pregnant and become mothers. Thus, in the name of…
Progressives around the world celebrated this weekend as Ireland voted 62 per cent in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage. This win is significant and important for a country that only decriminalized homosexuality…