Health

In June, the Supreme Court made the decision to overturn the legal precedent known as Chevron deference. The Chevron deference reversal marks a significant shift in administrative law with broad…

As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of…

Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on punitive drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients’ treatment and recovery from substance use disorder…

One night in March of 2023, Amari Marsh went to the bathroom and suffered a miscarriage. “I screamed because I was scared, because I didn’t know what was going on,”…

Every year in sub-Saharan Africa, up to four million teenage girls drop out of school due to unintended pregnancy. With access to contraception and abortion care, these young people could…

Two incarcerated men have participated in a hunger strike for better conditions in Connecticut prisons for the past eight days. The incarcerated hunger strikers, Jacky Robinson Jr. and Cornel Myers…

Imagine you’re going to have a baby. You have made plans — who will be there, how you expect it to go, what you’ll need to get the infant home.…

Since its founding in 2003, the legal services and advocacy organization If/When/How has been working to fight back against state intervention in people’s reproductive lives, including fighting for abortion access for…

When New York’s Nassau County signed the first county-level mask ban into law in August, its deputy police commissioner, Kevin Smith, told local news that training was “being conducted [in] the department,…

From following strict dress codes to being frisked, visiting family in prison at New Jersey State Prison has always been a headache. But lingering COVID-19 restrictions have created a whole…

Advocates for women in California prisons were backing legislation that would have banned solitary confinement of incarcerated pregnant people — until the author, under pressure from prison officials in Gov. Gavin…