Planned Parenthood of the Heartland sued Iowa on Tuesday claiming a state law passed on June 14 requiring women to wait 24 hours before obtaining an abortion violates the equal protection provision of the Iowa Constitution.
Read moreThe trial of a decorated Russian historian accused of murdering and dismembering his young lover began Tuesday in a case that has fueled intense debate in Russia over domestic violence.
Read moreRepresenting a judge facing removal from office over his use of the c-word, a lawyer told New York’s highest court Tuesday not to embrace so harsh a punishment for a first offense.
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Norma McCorvey loved the limelight. Better known as Jane Roe, her story was at the center of the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide. At first she was an abortion rights advocate, but in a twist, she became a born-again Christian in 1995 and switched sides.
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Republican Texas officials temporarily blocked all abortions in the state Monday as part of a halt of all surgeries deemed not immediately or medically necessary in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreNew Zealand’s parliament voted Wednesday to decriminalize abortion, in a move Justice Minister Andrew Little said modernized legislation and gave women control over their bodies.
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Attorneys general of three Democrat-led states who sued to force the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution argued in a court filing that opposing states should be blocked from trying to stop its ratification.
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Nigerian police have rescued 13 people, including a child and six pregnant women, from an illegal “baby factory” in southwestern Ogun state, a spokesman said Friday.
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Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature is trying to restrict the reasons women may seek abortion, after federal courts blocked time limitations that the state tried to enforce for the past two years.
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Fatima Mekhnas’ boots sink into the golden sand as she surveys the last beach in Morocco’s north. Optimism glows from her eyes, a reflection of a dream fulfilled after decades of yearning for a spot on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean.
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A senior member of the main U.S. union that represents opera performers resigned Monday, accusing the leadership of a cover-up in its investigation of sexual harassment accusations against superstar Plácido Domingo.
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Olivia Cotes-James wants us to talk about menstrual health. Properly. No more euphemisms, no more opaque marketing, no more superstitions, and no glossing over cramps, bleeding, or pain.
Read moreFour deputy district attorneys claim the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office denied them promotions because they are women and older than the male prosecutors it promoted over them, in federal court.
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United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for an end to gender inequality, which he said “should shame us all in the 21st century because it is not only unacceptable, it is stupid.”
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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report Wednesday that condemned how state and federal prisons treat female inmates, saying a broad range of disparities in areas from medical care to discipline show that correctional facilities are not designed for or tailored to women’s needs.
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Super-high heels can free women, says legendary French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a “form of liberty.”
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Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages in their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
Read moreFive Jane Does sued Carroll College in federal court, claiming it discriminates against female athletes in funding and scholarships and, among other things, making them do the maintenance on their playing fields and borrow the equipment to do it, in Helena, Mont. Federal Court.
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The Equal Rights Amendment inched one step closer to becoming the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the House voted 232-183 Thursday to remove a deadline standing in the way of ratification.
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Aiming to include an explicit bar against sex discrimination in the U.S. Constitution, the House will vote Thursday on whether to nix the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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