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Montana Republican leaders will vote on censuring or expelling a transgender state lawmaker who has been silenced in the House for comments against a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for children. On Tuesday night, Democratic, Rep. Zooey Zephyr tweeted a letter she received from House leaders informing her of the plan to consider disciplinary action against against her on Wednesday. She says she will be given a chance to speak. A protest against Zephyr being silenced disrupted the House floor session on Monday and she stood defiantly on the floor with her microphone raised. The House won't be disrupted on Wednesday because the gallery will be closed.

The Supreme Court preserved access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit challenging its FDA approval continues.

Abortion rights supporters expressed relief on Friday after the US Supreme Court preserved access to a widely used abortion pill but warned of a long fight ahead as a legal challenge to the

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and CSU has been honoring those affected by sexual assault and violence with programming and resources. Teal is the color of sexual assault awareness.

Governor Hochul announced that the NYS Department of Labor has finalized updates to the State's Sexual Harassment Model Policy, a template document that NYS provides to employers to help them comply with State laws and access state-of-the-art policies on sexual harassment and related topics to protect employees in the workplace.

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The decision means that, at least for now, women can still obtain mifepristone by mail as the legal battle continues.

The House is expected to vote Thursday on a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions.

PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports. Attorneys for the fa…

A Texas federal judge who ruled against the government in an abortion pill case withdrew his name from a controversial law review article before his nomination to the bench.

Washington will become the sixth state to pass such protections.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor's office late Thursday night.

Government says restrictions on mifepristone would deny people ‘lawful access’ to drug deemed safe by US regulators.

Students at the University of Arizona are protesting at the University over graphic anti-abortion displays that went up Wednesday morning.

We look at the state of abortion access in the United States with The Nation's Amy Littlefield as the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on a ruling set to take effect Saturday that effectively overrides the Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of the medication abortion pill mifepristone. Her most recent piece is headlined “A Conservative Christian Judge Rules Against Medication Abortion. How Hard Will Democrats Fight Back?”

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“They are choosing to prioritize legislating hate over the economic well-being of the state."

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were changing in their states.

A federal appeals court will allow partial access to the abortion drug mifepristone while a high-profile federal case plays out, but with new limitations on how the drug can be dispensed.

A daily independent global news hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González. “Unconscionable”: Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson Slams Texas Ruling on Abortion Pill; Jessica Mason Pieklo: Republicans’ Anti-Abortion Moves Are Part of Wider “Authoritarian Movement”; What Is the Comstock Act? Texas Judge Cites 1873 Anti-Obscenity Law to Halt Approval of Abortion Pill; Hotline Founder on the Struggle to Preserve Access to Abortion Pills Amid Relentless GOP Attacks; Arizona Abortion Provider: Texas Ruling on Mifepristone Leaves Patients & Clinics “in Limbo”

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In the nine months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a rapidly shifting patchwork of abortion bans and restrictions has emerged.

The decision by a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas could upend access nationwide to the standard two-pill regimen for medication abortions.

A new rule proposed by the Biden administration would prevent schools and colleges from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but it would allow certain limits to promote fairness or reduce injuries.

A Bay Ridge activist on anti-Muslim sentiment, the death of Eric Garner, and the fight to change Brooklyn for the better. Interview by John Surico

A Kansas proposal with some of the nation's broadest bathroom restrictions and a ban on transgender people changing their driver's licenses has cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature. The state Senate voted 28-12 on Tuesday with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s expected veto. The action came the same day Arkansas lawmakers sent Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders a scaled back bathroom bill of their own with criminal penalities. Both are among several hundred measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the U.S. The Kansas measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities.

Summary of H.R.1065 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Pregnant Workers Fairness Act