Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.

Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a...

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Female Student-Athletes File Title IX Lawsuit Against UC Davis for Sex Discrimination, Condemn Treating Women Like 'Second-Class Citizens'

On Sep. 29, 19 former members of UC Davis’ recently-eliminated female equestrian team filed a sex discrimination class action against the school. The students allege the school discriminated against...

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Antiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.

Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a...

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: American rape culture fuels tales of female vengeance - Daily Hampshire Gazette

From the Hulu series Furious to recent novels like “Honey and A Certain Hunger,” popular culture is increasingly portraying women taking revenge on men who assault them. After a decade of institutions...

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How abortion drug restrictions make it harder to treat other conditions

For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been approved for abortion in the U.S. But mifepristone and a similar drug have also been proven to treat conditions like uterine fibroids and endometriosis. A...

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'Furious' Is a Cathartic Feminist Fable After Years of Epstein Stonewalling

Furious offers a cathartic feminist fable of women fighting back against abusers and the systems that protect them, echoing the rage over Epstein’s crimes.

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Fifth Circuit Judges Seem Skeptical of Louisiana’s Challenge to Telehealth Abortion

On Wednesday, Sep. 9, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments in <em>Louisiana v. FDA</em>, a lawsuit filed by the Louisiana attorney general seekin...

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Massachusetts Decriminalized Later Abortion, No Health Emergency Required

Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion, meaning women can get abortions throughout any point in pregnanct.

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Beyond Abortion: How the ERA Could Transform Pregnancy, Work and Family Life

On Women’s Equality Day, explore how the ERA could reshape pregnancy, maternal health, workplace rights, caregiving and family life.

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Massachusetts finally decriminalizes abortion - Daily Hampshire Gazette

For the first time, a woman in Massachusetts can choose to end her pregnancy at any point, without a prosecutor looking over her doctor’s shoulder. On Aug. 10, Gov. Maura Healey signed the Prioritizin...

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After Dobbs, the ERA Offers a New Path to Abortion Rights

For 250 years, women have been fighting for inclusion in the nation’s founding promise of equality. The Equal Rights Amendment would finally guarantee that equality under the U.S. Constitution—and cou...

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Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Most Radical Suffragist Written Out of History Is Still Urgently Relevant

Matilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist erased from history, challenged patriarchal power—and her feminist ideas remain strikingly relevant today.

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Carrie Baker, NEPM's Nancy Cohen & Atty Laura Mangini: investigations of sex abuse clergy cases

8/18/26, Co-Host -- Carrie Baker. Amherst-Pelham School Supt Dr Xiomara Herman: a new school, a new school year, incredible offerings at the high school, & where 6th graders belong. Trevor Dayton,

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Built to Withstand Trump-Era Attacks on Mifepristone: New Telehealth Provider Serves All 50 States for Sliding-Scale Fee

Telehealth provider At Home Abortion just opened Aug. 11, but the six doctors and nurses running the service have over 100 years combined experience providing abortion and other reproductive healthcar...

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: A groundbreaking UN resolution calls forced pregnancy what it is: reproductive violence - Daily Hampshire Gazette

It took until July 7, 2026, for the world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant — or forcing them not to be — what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution a...

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The Biggest Threat to Women's Sports Isn't Trans Athletes. It's the Trump Administration's Failure to Uphold Title IX's Promise of Equal Opportunity.

The politicians who have spent years claiming to "protect women's sports" have been remarkably absent when it comes to enforcing the law that actually guarantees women equal athletic opportunities. W ...

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What to Know About Later Abortions: Myths, Barriers and Patient Stories

Later abortion is one of the most stigmatized and least understood aspects of reproductive health, and yet some of the voices perpetuating that stigma come from inside the reproductive rights movement...

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker with Minna Most: Consistent, compassionate, connected — How the Pioneer Valley Doula Collaborative fights healthcare inequity - Daily Hampshire Gazette

As states across the South and Midwest ban abortion, maternal mortality and morbidity rates are climbing nationwide, yet Massachusetts has one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the country. Ev...

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Abortion Rates Continue to Climb as Telehealth Reshapes Post-Dobbs America

Abortion Rates Continue to Climb as Telehealth Reshapes Post-Dobbs America, according to new #WeCount data.

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Latin American Feminists Train U.S.-Based Doulas on New Mifepristone Protocol for Second-Trimester Abortions

As Republicans create ever higher barriers to abortion that push abortion seekers later into pregnancy, U.S.-based activists are learning from Latin American feminists who have developed protocols to ...

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Federal Government’s New Website for Pregnant Women Promotes Antiabortion Pregnancy Centers - Women’s Media Center

Moms.gov is not about mothers or health, but about promoting the administration's pet policies on women.

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Your Tax Dollars Are Funding the Trump Administration’s Patriarchal Family Agenda

“One in three Americans are under-babied,” said Trump’s Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Oz last week, echoing JD Vance’s contempt for childless women as “cat ladies.” Guided by evangelical supporters,...

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Inside the Trump Administration’s Attack on Smith College and Title IX

The DOE is investigating Smith College for admitting transgender women, but the probe fits a broader conservative Republican pattern.

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Columnist Carrie N. Baker: Your tax dollars are funding the patriarchal family — courtesy of Trump - Daily Hampshire Gazette

“One in three Americans are under-babied,” said Trump’s Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Oz last week, echoing J.D. Vance’s contempt for childless women as “cat ladies.” Guided by evangelical supporter...

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Feminist Futures with Smith Coll Prof Carrie Baker. Carrie interviews Marianne Winters, Ex Dir of Safe Passage about the two recent domestic violence homicides in our community—at UMass and in Belcher...

5/19/26 (Co-Host - Carrie Baker) Paradise City Arts Festival at the Fair Grounds this weekend—we visit with the show Director, Mariah Swanson—200+ artists and craftspersons, musicians (new, larger s

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Telemedicine Abortion Is Not Going Away: Julie Kay Reads the Tea Leaves on Mifepristone, Shield Laws and the Supreme Court’s Latest Deadline

Thursday, May 14, at 5 p.m. ET, the Supreme Court’s temporary stay in the mifepristone case is set to expire, once again leaving abortion providers, patients and advocates waiting to see whether the C...

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America in Flux: Politics at the Closing of the Cold War

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How to Get Abortion Pills, Regardless of What the Courts Say

On May 1, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a sweeping ruling seeking to prohibit telehealth prescribing of mifepristone, forcing women to see a provider in-person to acquire the first pill in...

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