On Tuesday, March 11, Professor Deidre Cooper Owns presented on change in reproductive practices throughout town and its correlation between the explotiation of women and race. Photo courtesy of ...

The reproductive justice movement — led by Black women — has long emphasized the intersection of reproductive rights, racial inequality and economic justice. Grounded in a framework that acknowledges ...

Betsy, Lucy, and Anarcha, the Mothers of Gynecology, were three enslaved girls who sacrificed for the advancement of maternal health.

Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee Nation reflects on her long reporting journey, which investigated the widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their centuries-long fight for reproductive ...

Oral contraceptives for women, like the ones pictured above, were first approved by the federal government in 1960. Now, University of Minnesota researchers are working on oral contraceptives for men.

It is difficult to speak about progress when women and girls are still dying from preventable causes. In Kenya, unsafe abortion remains a quiet but persistent public health crisis. An estimated 2,600 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Activist and educator Loretta Ross didn’t know she was helping to birth a movement.

Ever since the 2022 fall of Roe v. Wade, when the US Supreme Court erased 49 years of precedent with regard to legal abortion access that then paved the way for other limits on reproductive health ...