3+ week, 1+ day ago   (939+ words) The Guardian Trump’s new attorney general poses a huge threat to abortion rights A call revealing Todd Blanche’s plans to crack down on mifepristone lays bare the danger The abortion pill is a miracle. Mifepristone, then called RU-486, was synthesized…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (226+ words) Just a few years ago, women would fight for other women whatever their background or politics. Today, many loudly dismiss the struggles of those who are not like them. But the solidarity is still there, if you look hard enough…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (397+ words) Well done to Roe McDermott for saying what is rarely said – that abortion doesn’t lead to inevitable regret (Abortion trauma is a myth. Irish women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices, 26 May). My own experience of…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (671+ words) Republicans may be seeking a new line of attack against Gavin Newsom, who has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination The next US presidential election is more than two years away but conservative media has wasted…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1192+ words) We saw it when Russia jailed members of Pussy Riot, and again when the US overturned Roe v Wade: misogyny is a powerful political weapon. Let’s focus on fighting it, not ‘understanding’ itIn preparation for interviewing Pussy Riot’s Maria “Masha…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (334+ words) Read more in the kindness of strangers series It was my first pregnancy and I’d been sick for more than seven months with hyperemesis gravidarum. In those late stages, after the HG finally passed, I was exhausted and overwhelmed. It…...

5+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (172+ words) We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has reached the White House Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as…...