East of Eden, Cathy Ames, and the choice women are still expected to justify

Women are expected to prevent pregnancy, prevent assault, endure the consequences, and explain themselves afterward. Meanwhile, accountability for the men who harm them can look very different.

According to a newly obtained transcript of Jane Doe’s interview with Cornell University Police, she told an investigator that she could say with “100% confidence” that she had been raped.

Women are expected to prevent pregnancy, prevent assault, endure the consequences, and explain themselves afterward. Meanwhile, accountability for the men who harm them can look very different.

Tennessee just reminded us why Her Safe Harbor does not ask women seeking abortion care to pour their most private information into an online platform.

What Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story made us think about women, rage, abortion—and the enduring expectation that we suffer quietly

What women calling Her Safe Harbor are telling us about crisis pregnancy centers — and why it matters.

Four years after Dobbs, America doesn’t have one system of abortion access. It has 50 different versions of reproductive freedom.

Dobbs didn’t settle the abortion debate. It moved the fight into our legislatures, courts, elections, pharmacies, mailboxes—and increasingly, into women’s private lives.

The real danger of crisis pregnancy centers isn’t simply what they tell women. It’s where they place themselves: directly between a woman and the healthcare she is trying to find.

We Have Seen This Before. And We Know Where It Leads.

We don’t experience the abortion rights movement through press releases or cable news. We experience it through women.

They are not protecting life. They are manufacturing obedience.

At first glance, these may seem like separate issues. They are not.

Exhaustion is understandable. Silence is dangerous.

Not that the media gets every fact wrong—but that it too often tells the wrong story.

If They Can’t Win in Court, They’ll Exhaust Everyone

If They Can’t Win in Court, They’ll Exhaust Everyone

For years, Americans have argued over whether Congress would ever pass a national abortion ban.