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Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.
Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.
The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.
It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.
In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
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