Women's Rights Champion, Former Lawmaker Patricia Schroeder Dies at 82
The former U.S. Representative from Colorado and Presidential candidate was a champion of women’s rights and longtime LGBTQ+ ally.
March 14, 2023
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The former U.S. Representative from Colorado and Presidential candidate was a champion of women’s rights and longtime LGBTQ+ ally.
The assault on a woman's right to choose runs parallel to right-wing efforts to roll back queer rights.
It comes ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and its national guarantee of abortion rights.
HIV care, trans clinics, cancer screenings for lesbians and bi women — many abortion clinics offer these services, so the battle to keep them open is our fight too.
Nearly two out of every fice women under the age of 30 (39 percent) said abortion is the most important issue for their vote in November.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have shuttered a majority of the state's abortion clinics.Â
Personally "overwhelmed" by the Dobbs decision, the Speaker of the House tried to lay a path forward.
The administration is omitting information on abuses of LGBTQ+ people and women from reports on some countries, says the U.K.'s Asylum Research Centre.
The ruling, "reflects a concentrated effort to uphold racist and patriarchal practices of limiting the autonomy of women and LGBTQ+ individuals."
Conservative politicians are going not only after abortion but trans health care and LGBTQ+ rights in general. But activists and everyday citizens are fighting back.
On the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, remember we shouldn't get used to losing our rights.
The conservative Supreme Court has shown it cares little for precedent or restraint.
Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh poses a threat to women's reproductive rights if confirmed, and women dressed as handmaids are fighting it.Â
We're not defeated -- or deterred. Remember that in November.
The abortion rights ruling stood for almost 50 years, with major implications for other bodily autonomy rights. What are the implications of its overturning?
Health care providers, candidates who support reproductive freedom, and people with few economic resources all need your help now.
It should not come as a surprise that Donald Trump, a man famous for his misogynist rhetoric, sent two antiwomen groups, one known as a hate group, to an international conference on the status of women.Â
Kacsmaryk has called trans people "delusional" and the Equality Act the "inequality act."
"We are at an exceedingly dangerous, unprecedented moment," said Human Rights Campaign Interim President Joni Madison.
The decision has devastating implications for LGBTQ+ people.