Peggy Malone walks the quiet halls of Crozer-Chester Medical Center, the Pennsylvania hospital where she’s worked as a registered nurse for the past 35 years, […]
Category: Social Justice
Moms For Liberty shakes up local school boards, eyes next election cycle
As Moms for Liberty has worked to elect sympathetic school board candidates, board takeovers have replayed in school districts across the country, from California to Colorado, Florida to New York.
How states prosecute pregnant people even without abortion bans
An ocean of uncertainty surrounds dozens of new state-level abortion bans and how they’ll be enforced following last month’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion that overturned […]
One of Alabama’s few abortion providers is also working to open the state’s first birth center
The morning after the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade, Dr. Yashica Robinson woke up, opened her eyes and […]
Georgia factory worker, fired after miscarriage scare, sues employer
Seven days after Georgia mom Kaytiara McAlister learned she was pregnant, that pregnancy cost her job, according to a new federal lawsuit.. McAlister claims she was fired from her job at a manufacturing center […]
‘Come to church, we have the best sex’
John Paul Basham remembers, when he was a teenager, participating in a sexual abstinence program called True Love Waits at his Southern Baptist church in Hoover, Ala. in the late 1990s. In […]
Police use questionable claims of antifa, looting to justify tear gassing protesters
The threat of antifa and a claim of $12 million in damage to an Alabama Power office building during a Birmingham protest were among the […]
Expensive childcare keeps mothers out of higher-paying jobs
As soon as Antoinette Pruitt opened her acceptance letter from Samford University’s Cumberland Law School, she started planning her move to Birmingham. The 29-year-old Panama […]
Fired for having a baby? Alabama is OK with that
Haley Gentle paced the waiting room at the obstetrician’s office and reread the cryptic text message from her boss. Just three words: Will talk tomorrow. They […]
Alabama’s highest abortion rates are mostly in the Black Belt, where healthcare options are few
The flashing sign outside the Sumter County Health Department advertises family planning services every Wednesday. That means birth control and STD testing. It’s one of […]