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In the early morning hours of June 28,1969, a routine raid of a gay bar in New York City erupted into a riot. Patrons of the Stonewall Inn were not just fighting back against a single raid, but ...

On Sept. 14, 2024, two months before the U.S. presidential election, I helped organize nearly 2,000 people in the streets of Washington, D.C. This was the birth of the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) ...

Let’s have a discussion about bodily autonomy. I think the government should require people to give their organs to other people in need of them. Say I need a liver transplant, or else I will die. The ...

The Supreme Court recently granted the stay of Mifepristone, one of the medications used in a medication abortion. Their ruling reiterates the safety and efficacy of Mifepristone, which has been used ...

Hundreds of people protest a mandate from the Massachusetts governor requiring all children age K-12 to receive a flu shot to attend school for the upcoming year outside the statehouse in Boston on ...

At every stage of life, New Yorkers should have the right to make their own deeply personal health decisions about their bodies without interference, coercion or fear. That right must be enshrined and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

We decided to write Abortion and Reproductive Justice in 2018. Just two years into Trump’s first presidency, the opposition to reproductive health, rights, and justice was already emboldened, and ...

Iowa’s 6-week abortion ban took effect on July 9, outlawing nearly all abortions after cardiac activity is detected − before most pregnant people even know they are pregnant. Since the U.S. Supreme ...

Horror is a genre that inherently deals with themes of bodily autonomy—even if the theme of bodily autonomy is purely tangential. The fear of imposition and violation thrums through horror like blood ...

I am pro-choice. I am fine with my friends who are pro-life. I am not fine with reversing Roe v. Wade. That’s because telling a woman she has to take a pregnancy to term is imposing on her body. Just ...