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School districts have begun banning Pride flags as political speech
Experts and advocates say forcing teachers to take down Pride flags could hurt students’ wellbeing and make them feel like they have nowhere safe to turn.
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The new battlefront in the partisan war over voting? Ballot initiatives.
The Fairness Project is launching a $5 million campaign ahead of the 2022 midterm elections to ward off new GOP restrictions on ballot measures.
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After judge's ruling, one of Texas’ biggest abortion providers will resume abortions up to 18 weeks
Whole Woman's Health, a network of abortion clinics, said it is making plans to resume abortions up to 18 weeks "as soon as possible."
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Paid leave, health care access and child care: How policy can protect parents’ mental health
Anxiety, depression and other challenges often arise during and shortly after pregnancy. Researchers are looking at a more holistic approach to address this.
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The New Deal devalued home care workers. Advocates hope new legislation can undo that.
Domestic workers, many of them women and many people of color, have inherited a racist, sexist legacy of low pay and little job protections.
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The 19th Explains: What is Title X, and what did Trump and Biden do to change it?
The federally funded family planning program provides no- and low-cost contraception counseling and dispensation, but a Trump-era ban on mentioning abortion meant the number of providers dropped.
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More women are serving life sentences. Experts are trying to determine why.
Experts say more research is needed to understand how factors like gender-based violence and cultural expectations about femininity may affect incarceration trends for women.
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More than half of men favor Texas' abortion ban, poll shows
Americans are split on Texas’ strict new abortion ban, with roughly equal numbers supporting and opposing it, but women far more likely to disapprove of the law.
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106 restrictions on abortions have become law this year. It’s a record.
Texas, which effectively outlawed most abortions, was not even in the top five states in terms of the number of abortion restrictions enacted, an analysis found.
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Elizabeth Warren isn’t in the White House. But she knows how to use the tools she’s got.
The Massachusetts senator is using the subcommittee posts she has, getting allies into key parts of the bureaucracy and laying the groundwork to cancel student debt and shape the president’s domestic agenda.