As Voters Consider Abortion Rights Crackdown, Two North Dakota Women Speak Out
by Teddy Wilson
RJ Court Watch: The Fight for Voting Rights and Abortion Access in Texas
by Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy
Harm From Texas’ Omnibus Anti-Abortion Law Extends Beyond Patients
by Andrea Grimes
Nigerian ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Activists Not Celebrating Ceasefire Deal Yet
by Samuel Okocha
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
Adoption Is Not a Universal Alternative to Abortion, No Matter What Anti-Choicers Say by Randie Bencanann
Men's Rights Activists Intent on Proving They Are the Absolute Worst by Imani Gandy
North Dakota Set To Be First State to Pass Radical 'Personhood' Amendment by Teddy Wilson
Tennessee's Amendment 1 Is A 'Personhood' Referendum—for Pregnant Women by Farah Diaz-Tello and Cherisse Scott
Discussing Disabled Sexuality Is a Radical Act by s.e. smith
As Voters Consider Abortion Rights Crackdown, Two North Dakota Women Speak Out by Teddy Wilson
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: One Woman's Story by Sue Ellen Allen
Harm From Texas' Omnibus Anti-Abortion Law Extends Beyond Patients by Andrea Grimes
Bloody Fetus Pictures Aren't About Persuasion—They're About Bullying by Amanda Marcotte
North Dakota Set To Be First State to Pass Radical 'Personhood' Amendment by Teddy Wilson
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
Adoption Is Not a Universal Alternative to Abortion, No Matter What Anti-Choicers Say by Randie Bencanann
Men's Rights Activists Intent on Proving They Are the Absolute Worst by Imani Gandy
Groundbreaking Research Aims to Expand Our Knowledge of Abortion Stigma by Steph Herold
Maine Republican Has Not Apologized for Comparing Abortion to Rape by Nina Liss-Schultz
Discussing Disabled Sexuality Is a Radical Act by s.e. smith
Breast Cancer Behind Bars: One Woman's Story by Sue Ellen Allen
How the Pro-Choice Movement Excludes People With Disabilities by Lenzi Sheible
Is Colorado's 'Personhood' Amendment a Sweeping Approach to Ban Abortion? by Jason Salzman
Groundbreaking Research Aims to Expand Our Knowledge of Abortion Stigma by Steph Herold
North Dakota Set To Be First State to Pass Radical 'Personhood' Amendment by Teddy Wilson
Men's Rights Activists Intent on Proving They Are the Absolute Worst by Imani Gandy
Lawsuit: Gay Inmates Placed in Solitary Confinement, Subject to Discrimination by Nina Liss-Schultz
How to Talk to Your Guy Friends About Not Threatening to Rape and Murder Women on the Internet by Andrea Grimes
Adoption Is Not a Universal Alternative to Abortion, No Matter What Anti-Choicers Say by Randie Bencanann
Report: Minimum Wage Hike Would Save Federal Government $7.6 Billion Annually by Emily Crockett
Sexism in STEM Starts Early—So We Must Combat It Early Too by Lizzie Fierro
Polls: Voters Connect Abortion Access and Economic Opportunities by Nina Liss-Schultz
Indiana to Cut Off Food Stamps for 65,000 Residents by Nina Liss-Schultz
This Is Why the Midterms Are So Important
“Bad Reputation” singer Joan Jett teams up with men and women of this generation to teach everyone the importance of voting on November 4.
A Tutorial for ‘Ignorantly Tasty’ Halloween Cupcakes
Youtuber Kat Lazo (TheeKatsMeoww) shows us a recipe for “ignorantly tasty” Halloween cupcakes, and schools us on the racist and sexist tendencies that are accepted on this holiday. [via Colorlines]
Detroit Water Shutoff Prompts Residents to Fight Human Rights Violation
When 27,000 Detroit residents were forced to live with their water cut off this year, water advocates, United Nation officials, and citizens of Detroit banded together to fight the human rights violation.
RJ Court Watch: The Fight for Voting Rights and Abortion Access in Texas
by Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani GandyPodcast (rj-court-watch-podcast): Download | Embed
In the opening month of its term, the Supreme Court issued emergency orders on voting rights and abortion access in Texas. RH Reality Check‘s Andrea Grimes joins us to discuss the overlap right now in the fight for reproductive and voting rights in the wake of these two big Supreme Court orders.
The Misogyny of GamerGate, and Outrage Over Abortion Education
by Amanda MarcottePodcast (reality-cast-podcast): Download | Embed
On this episode of Reality Cast, I chat with social researcher Jennifer Allaway, author of “#GamerGate Trolls Aren’t Ethics Crusaders; They’re a Hate Group.” Also, Fox News is really irate that a university might teach abortion instead of just leaving it up to people to figure it out for themselves through trial and error.
Who Is Sean Fieler?
by Amanda MarcottePodcast (reality-cast-podcast): Download | Embed
On this episode of Reality Cast, I talk with Sharona Coutts, vice president of investigations and research at RH Reality Check, about a relatively unknown but extremely generous funder of all sorts of religious right causes. In another segment, I discuss the Supreme Court decision to stay part of Texas’ abortion law, and George Will claims the “war on women” is a myth.
![The ruling is the second one this week to allow an anti-abortion restriction take effect beginning November 1.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_81501367-100x67.jpg)
![The Republican Governors Association, just a week before Election Day, is pulling out the final stops in its push to re-elect Gov. Paul LePage.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Maine-Ad-100x67.jpg)
![Colorado’s bishops, speaking through the Colorado Catholic Conference, say they've taken a “neutral” stance on Colorado’s personhood amendment. But they're criticizing a campaign against the measure by Catholics for Choice, which claims the bishops have tacitly backed Amendment 67.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_180371255-100x67.jpg)
![Shortly after early voting began in Tennessee, local media reported that some voters have received misleading information about Amendment 1 and that there have been cases of voting machine irregularities.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_201581045-100x67.jpg)
![The ruling means a 2011 law that bans off-label use of abortion-inducting medications can take effect immediately.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_189909290-100x67.jpg)
![The right is throwing all its weight behind Sen. Pat Roberts to help him defeat pro-choice Independent Greg Orman.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Roberts-100x67.jpg)
![A leading supporter of Colorado’s personhood amendment disputes a FOX News story reporting that she believes the amendment could make criminals of women.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_213633448-100x67.jpg)
![The emergency request comes after a lower court ruled the law could take effect November 1.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_190744220-100x67.jpg)
![State lawmakers nationwide have passed legislation to restrict access to reproductive health care, but in New Mexico, attempts to restrict reproductive health care have gained little traction. However, reproductive rights advocates fear that the political landscape may soon change and threaten abortion access not just in the state, but throughout the region.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_111956390-100x67.jpg)
![Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst attended and spoke at a Koch brothers retreat in June, telling conservatives there that the Kochs' politically connected network launched her political career.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ernst-100x67.jpg)
![The only remaining abortion clinic in the greater Cincinnati area, which serves an estimated 2.1 million people, was hit with a citation this month from the Ohio Department of Health for failing to have a written transfer agreement with a local private hospital.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_87315394-100x67.jpg)
![Gay, bisexual, and transgender inmates in California filed a class action lawsuit last week against a county and its sheriff, alleging that they are kept in a segregated ward called an “Alternative Lifestyle Tank,” essentially keeping them in solitary confinement and subjecting them to regular discrimination and harassment.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_183717002-100x67.jpg)
![Oklahoma capitol](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_503827781-100x67.jpg)
![Some 90,000 women in Pennsylvania could lose family planning health-care coverage next year if the state government does not continue its unqiue Medicaid program.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_174200045-100x67.jpg)
![Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Red Oak), candidate for U.S. Senate, has quickly become a national figure by making outlandish statements that appeal to the far right, including comments charging that she would use a gun to defend herself “from the government.”](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/joni-ernst-yt-100x67.png)
![Supporters of the clinic have wanted to fight back for a long time, but were waiting for a window of opportunity to take a stand.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Top-of-content-image-100x67.jpg)
![More tweets on the "weekend of resistance" in Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rams_ferguson1-100x67.png)
- In Turkey, Syrian women and girls increasingly vulnerable to exploitation - Alaska Dispatch
- Pastor Who Performed Gay Marriage Keeps Ordination - ABC News
- The Abortion Wars: California eases access as others tighten laws - Mankato Free Press
- Male infertility: a public health issue caused by sexually transmitted pathogens - Nature.com
- 'Positive' author debunks myths common myths about HIV - Today.com
- Ted Olson: 'Point of no return' on gay marriage passed - USA TODAY
- Lifting the veil off emergency contraceptive - Times of India
![If you really think that you are a good guy, and that you are not the kind of person who would threaten to rape and murder someone for the hell of it, the onus is on you to fix this.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_215283577-100x67.jpg)
![Amendment 1's proponents claim that it "neutralizes" the law on abortion; in reality, the measure would rob pregnant women of the full protections of Tennessee's constitution.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_169649519-100x67.jpg)
![Anti-choice protesters are irate that San Antonio officials won't let them disgust people with bloody footage on a Jumbotron outside the Alamo. It's time to ask why anti-choicers keep trying these gross-out techniques when they have no reason to think they'll ever change people's minds.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_136029650-100x67.jpg)
![I had been in jail for two and a half months when I learned that my breast cancer would necessitate a mastectomy. And I would have to do it alone: no pink pillows, no encouraging cards, no special foods. No comfort, period.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_208296553-100x67.jpg)
![With education and awareness, adults can help foster girls' participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects by taking steps to break down gender stereotypes—and, in turn, create a more equal workforce in the future.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_107820860-100x67.jpg)
![Egg freezing is an individualized, questionably effective technical fix for a fundamentally social problem.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IVF-100x67.jpg)
![The American Academy of Pediatrics recently released an update to its guidelines that included an expansion discussion of sexual health for disabled teens. That's an incredibly important addition—so why are so few media outlets covering it?](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_176714024-100x67.jpg)
![Anyone who believes that adoption or foster care is a real solution to growing restrictions on reproductive rights is kidding themselves.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_205195135-100x67.jpg)
![The media’s bad job of reporting on teenage pregnancy and parenting has real-life consequences and effects on teenage families, including depression and generational poverty. By removing these stereotypes, and changing to more positive story lines and outcomes, people in the media can make it easier on teens to create thriving families.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/teen-moms1-100x67.jpg)
![If we in the pro-choice movement don't start paying serious attention to the ways in which our own practices contribute to the dehumanization of people with disabilities, we can’t keep claiming to operate under a reproductive justice framework at all.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141030030244im_/http://rhrealitycheck.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shutterstock_127636592-1-100x67.jpg)