My mouth dropped open in response, but no words came out.

Right-wing and extremist politicians here in the U.S. want us to believe that banning abortion will make it disappear. The ...

Health insurance premiums have climbed to their highest in 15 years, and the “Big Beautiful Bill” adds further uncertainty to coverage. Families and employers are alike alarmed by the financial strain ...

Despite Margaret Sanger’s contributions to birth control and hence women’s freedom and empowerment, her legacy is diminished by her sympathies with eugenics. This writer says that, like many modern ...

My friend sounded proud. Real proud, when she announced that the heterosexual couple, who had been trying for over two years to start a family, had finally succeeded. “My son is pregnant!” she ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name of self care? When I had my son two years ago, I came home with my husband ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

For the first time ever, there will be International Sign Language interpreters at the Latin GRAMMYs red carpet. Lachi and RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities). RAMPD ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Breast milk is the most local of all foods and one that can have an outsized impact on the health of mothers and infants. However, for many African American parents finding a maternity ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...