Women’s Issues

Voting was a right limited to men or property owners before the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1920. States’ rights was invoked as a way of preserving white supremacy in...

Betsy Leondar Wright – Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem...

Alice Rothchild – Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician “The risks include infection, bleeding, perforation of the uterus, incomplete removal of tissue however your greatest risk is prosecution” Alice Rothchild on abortion...

The Democratic Socialists of America have some thoughts on why Amendment 4 for abortion access failed and what to do next.

A divided appeals court has blocked a new federal rule about sex-based discrimination in education programs.

Drawn from research conducted over the course of a decade, education scholar Rachelle Winkle Wagner elevates in The Chosen We : Black Women’s Empowerment In Higher Education the experiences and oral histories of 105 accomplished,...

Biden speaks in Tampa President Joe Biden came to Tampa to speak about abortion rights Peace activists protest Biden More than one hundred anti-war demonstrators protested against Biden My Safe Florida Home money A bill...

Listen: It’s Black Maternal Health Week, and a new list released Thursday from U.S. News & World Report ranks hospitals with high black maternal health outcomes. Only one Florida hospital is ranked among 26 across...

Experts review the legal and medical status of reproductive rights & technologies today. Surrogacy lawyer Roia Barrios and reproductive endocrinologist & obgyn fertility specialist Dr. Carolina Sueldo discuss the Alabama IVF law, "fetal personhood," the...

Anti-vaccine Florida surgeon-general politically defies science and the Center for Disease Control. Florida reels from a new outbreak of measles while the surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, face calls to be fired. His anti vaccine stance...

Women were instrumental in saving two schools headed for closure in Tampa. Women fight and win consequential battles with little notoriety. Women historically have had to battle against slavery and empowered the abolitionist movement, against...

Felicia Kornbluh – A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life  A Woman’s Life Is A Human Life – My Mother, Our Neighbor and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice is the story of...