What happened to Trudy Scheele-Gertsen in 1968 wasn’t unique. She was one of over 10,000 women forced to give up their children by the Dutch government because they were unwed. But she is the only person to sue the state for damages.
Read moreA former employee claims that the part owner of West Valley Insulation told her that “people who wear sexy clothing deserved to be raped” and that “he would be happy to take care of her,” in Garfield County Court, Colo.
Read moreA teenager brought a federal complaint seeking an alternative to parental permission for an abortion, as “she will be disowned by her family and lose their good opinion and financial support if she is discovered to be pregnant.”
Read moreLinda Constant and a couple hundred other women gathered at the Tampa Convention Center on Thursday evening, pledging to reelect President Donald Trump in 2020, even as polls show his approval ratings plummeting among this key constituent group.
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A young rape victim whose miscarried baby died at birth was found not guilty of first-degree murder Monday in El Salvador, which prosecutes miscarriages as homicides. Prosecutors in her retrial sought a sentence of 40 years.
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Iowa Congressman Steve King on Wednesday defended his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether there would be “any population of the world left” if not for births due to rape and incest.
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Retrial begins Thursday for a young Salvadoran woman facing 30 years in prison for the “aggravated homicide” of her fetus in a miscarriage. Though a judge cleared her in the first trial, the state appealed, raising profound questions for the country’s progressive new president and the nation’s powerful Catholic Church.
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Two major music companies have canceled appearances by Plácido Domingo and the Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it would launch an investigation in response to an Associated Press story in which numerous women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior for decades.
Read moreThe federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of Arkansas abortion restrictions extended her order Tuesday while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the laws proceeds through court.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that a South Dakota high school punished a student after falsely claiming that her statement in an edition of the student newspaper that her hobby was to “Netflix and chill” with her boyfriend referred to having sex, and that the school did not punish male students who had said the same thing.
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Saudi Arabia published new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a longstanding policy that gave men control over women.
Read moreA federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of a set of Arkansas laws that would have eliminated abortions in some cases and likely would have forced the shuttering of the state’s only surgical abortion clinic.
Read moreThe Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that they no longer can refer women for abortions.
Read moreA Missouri appeals court reversed denial of a protection order to a woman who says a co-worker tried to strangle her in a restaurant and sexually assaulted her in her home.
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Shortly after Kathy McBride put up a yard sign supporting Donald Trump for president in 2016, she received a note from one of her neighbors.
Read moreA young woman who gave birth to a baby in an outhouse in El Salvador was back in court Monday facing a second trial for murder in a case that has drawn international attention because of the country’s penchant for prosecuting women for homicide if they suffer a miscarriage.
Read moreA federal judge ordered Indiana to grant Whole Woman’s Health Alliance a license to operate a clinic that offers abortion services in South Bend, Indiana.
Read moreNew state abortion laws likely to become bogged down in legal challenges face another potential obstacle: prosecutors who refuse to enforce them.
Read moreA federal judge denied class certification to six women who accuse UnitedHealth Group of refusing to cover breastfeeding services for new mothers, in violation of the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreJoe Biden would support Congress writing abortion rights into federal law “should it become necessary,” his presidential campaign said Tuesday, following several other Democratic candidates in promising to take that step if elected.
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