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Domestic workers, many of them women and many people of color, have inherited a racist, sexist legacy of low pay and little job protections. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Heading into this year's Women's March, Richards is channeling her frustration at Texas officials: "I hope they all lose their jobs."

There are three major cases currently challenging the new Texas law, all taking up different arguments. Any one of them could reach the Supreme Court. Here’s how.

Spears’s case has brought unprecedented attention to the issue of conservatorship. Now disability rights advocates are wondering what comes next. 

Reps. Cori Bush, Barbara Lee and Pramila Jayapal reflected the challenges faced by many pregnant people of color, who are often overlooked in national conversations about abortion rights.