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Carli Chesney receives a frog tattoo
Community
Billy Penn

At one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art

Eddie’s in Chinatown has experienced a changing of the guard.

5 years ago

Demonstrators chant slogans during a rally
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Many of Pa.’s GOP gubernatorial hopefuls see a blueprint in Texas abortion law

GOP lawmakers have been pushing bills that would further restrict abortion and the debate is poised to become key in Pennsylvania’s 2022 gubernatorial race.

5 years ago

Activists supporting the decriminalization of abortion in Mexico march in Guadalajara, Mexico, on September 28, 2019. Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mexico’s Supreme Court has voted to decriminalize abortion

Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion as a crime, a landmark ruling that clears the way for the legalization of abortion.

5 years ago

Participants in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk pass the Capitol in Washington
Health

Black and white women have the same genetic risk of breast cancer, Penn study finds. So why are Black women more likely to develop the disease?

The findings of a new study from the University of Pennsylvania challenge past, smaller studies that found Black women face a greater genetic risk than white women.

5 years ago

A sign hangs outside the Whole Women's Health Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021.  (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Politics & Policy

Judge shields Texas clinics from anti-abortion group’s suits

State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued a temporary restraining order Friday in Austin that shields clinics from whistleblower lawsuits.

5 years ago

A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, stripping women of the right to an abortion in most cases in the nation's second-largest state. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

The Supreme Court heads toward reversing abortion rights

The Supreme Court's conservative majority tossed a legal bomb into the abortion debate late Wednesday night.

5 years ago

Jabina Coleman (center) surrounded by members of the Breastfeeding Awareness and Empowerment Cafe (BAE Cafe) , a group for Black birthing mothers in PA to connect and support each other through their birthing journeys. (Photo courtesy of Jabina Coleman)
Health

Racial gaps in breastfeeding are closing. Philly area Black birth workers are one reason

Black women historically had the lowest rates of breastfeeding initiation, but new data shows that’s changing. Community support makes the difference.

5 years ago

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Abortion opponents protesting near western Sussex County's Planned Parenthood clinic
Health

Planned Parenthood to open first Delaware clinic in western Sussex County, abortion foes are already protesting

The rural southern region is the state’s most conservative. The agency calls it a health care desert in dire need of a center offering women’s reproductive services.

5 years ago

Then-New York Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul addresses the People of New York during news conference in the Blue Room at the state Capitol Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Albany, N.Y.
Politics & Policy

9 women now serving as governors in U.S., tying a record

When Hochul took over Tuesday for resigned Gov. Andrew Cuomo, she became the ninth woman currently serving as governor. That ties the previous record, first set in 2004.

5 years ago

Internally displaced school teacher wearing a burqa from Takhar province, who identified herself by her first name, Nilofar, inside her tent in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 13, 2021. Many women in Afghanistan remain at home because they are too terrified to venture into a new world ruled by the Taliban..  (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Exiting Afghanistan: the women and allies left behind

What does the Taliban takeover mean for women and girls in Afghanistan? And, why didn't the U.S. evacuate Afghan interpreters who now face deadly retribution by the Taliban.

Air Date: August 18, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Kevin and Karen Gardner at the farmer’s market in Yellow Springs, near Dayton, Ohio. (Jocelyn Robinson/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Going wig-less — learning to live with alopecia

In movies, bald women are portrayed as strong; in real life, they’re seen as odd. One woman gradually decided to just go with it.

5 years ago

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In this March 4, 2020, file photo, abortion rights demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Among abortion-rights activists, (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

‘Controlling Women: What We Must Do To Save Reproductive Freedom’

Kathryn Kolbert, who argued the landmark Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which is credited with saving Roe v. Wade, discusses the ongoing assault on abortion rights in the U.S.

Air Date: August 5, 2021 10:00 am

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From left: Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer and Joanne Lee are teen leaders for the U.N.-sponsored gender equality group Girl Up. They attended Girl Up's virtual conference last week, which featured Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai as a guest speaker. (Giovanna Basso, Mofiyin Onanuga, Emma Fetzer, Joanne Lee)
NPR
Community

Teen girl leaders in a pandemic: Fight for what’s right, then groove to BTS

For girls like 19-year-old Giovanna Basso, a teen activist from Brazil, being a teen and an activist is a balancing act.

5 years ago

Olivia Breen (right), a Welsh Paralympian seen here in 2015, recently recounted a competition official remarking that her briefs were
NPR
Community

The sexualization of women in sports extends even to what they wear

It's 2021, but the policing of female athletes' bodies is a practice that continues to thrive.

5 years ago

A closeup of an IUD
NPR
Health

Contraception is free to women, except when it’s not

The ACA requires most insurers to cover a list of FDA-approved birth control methods for free. But insurers often make it hard for women to get the products they want.

5 years ago

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