After years of waiting, Lauren Smith's case finally went to trial—and resulted in a hung jury. Her charges were expunged. But ...

The New York State Penal Code continues to fail survivors — the Cornell story is symptomatic of a broader problem.

Tamara Costa was over the moon when, in June 2024, she discovered she was pregnant for the second time. A 24-year-old logistics analyst in Athens, Alabama, she and her now-husband Caleb were already ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide this Friday if it will hear the case of Brenda Andrew, the only woman currently on death row in Oklahoma. The Andrew case is the second Oklahoma capital punishment ...

Lauren Smith thought she knew what to expect as she was rushed into the operating room. At 26, it was her third cesarean section. “I don’t remember much before or after because everything moved so ...

A group of teenage girls and young women gather in a nondescript room with pale walls, chatting and laughing. They have just finished their classes for the week and are about to head home. But they ...

I was 18 weeks pregnant when I knew something was wrong. My body was leaking thick and yellowish discharge, and my pelvis felt what I could only describe as abnormally “open.” A shockingly brief ...

On March 10, 1993, 31-year-old Michael Griffin, a fundamentalist with a “bad temper,” pulled out a shotgun, yelled, “Don’t kill any more babies,” and shot Dr. David Gunn three times in the back, ...

Nicole Chung has established herself as a queen of the literary memoir. Born to Korean immigrants and later adopted by a white couple in rural Oregon, Chung’s first memoir, All You Can Ever Know, ...

I’ve spent all day thinking about feminist icon and beloved Meteor fairy godmother Gloria Steinem, who died yesterday at the age of 92. I must admit that unlike my colleagues here, I was slow to get ...

My daughter got a big-girl bed last night, and her unmitigated joy about unicorn sheets and celestial-themed pillows was frankly inspiring. “I have been yearning for this all of my life,” she told me.

Back in 2009, as a 31-year-old part-time community college student inspired by the election of America’s first Black president, Deesha Dyer applied on a whim for a White House internship. Much to her ...