On Friday June 21, Law at the Margins hosted “Fight for Reproductive Justice” Webinar in partnership with NAPAWF and In Our Own Voice. The webinar may be found at . Roula AbiSamra, Georgia organizer for NAPAWF, and Natasha Chabria, Georgetown...
Editor’s Note: The following post is republished with permission by the Global Forest Coalition in an effort to raise awareness of women’s rights, climate justice and climate resilience. The original publishing may be found here...
Activists around the country react to the Supreme Court's ruling against the Trump Adminstration's attempt to add a ciizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Law@theMargins' caps off its look at state legislative efforts to limit women's reproductive rights with an online discussion featuring representatives from the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)) and In Our Own Voice: National...
In Missouri, these introduced and accepted legislation hold serious consequences for access to medicine, voting rights, bodily autonomy and relief from trauma.
In Georgia, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act radically revises personhood rights by allowing fetuses to be considered legal residents of the state, as well as dependent minors for taxation purposes.
Louisiana has several pieces of passed and introduced anti-choice legislation, including one law that, barring a successful court challenge, would prohibit abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
This spring, Ohio passed legislation that would charge a fifth degree felony to any doctor who knowingly induces or performs an abortion before determining if there is a fetal heartbeat. On the horizon, there are more restrictive efforts, including...
Alabama legislators have managed to use arguably the nation's most inciteful, emotionally charged language to craft an ant-choice law that is additionally laden with scientific and medical inaccuracies.
When the head of a household is a women, the impact of incarceration can be even more devestating for both the family and the community.