Maureen Shaw
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What A Mom Running For Office Wants Her Daughter To Know
Dear Ellie, you know me best as a "mommy," a playmate, the person who cuts your hot dogs into smaller pieces. But there’s another hat I’m wearing these days — mom turned political candidate — and you are, in large part, to thank for that. Running for… → Read More
Instead of getting a Mother’s Day gift, try listening to your mom for once
To celebrate Mother's Day, Quartz staff collected story ideas from our mothers and sought to answer them. This mother asks: How can kids meaningfully honor Mother’s Day? Ah, Mother’s Day. It’s the one day a year when moms are explicitly fêted and appreciated for their boundless love, sacrifices, and wisdom. But are we celebrating moms... → Read More
Mike Pence says making abortion illegal saves lives. History proves the opposite.
Mike Pence says abortion will be illegal "in his time." History proves that making abortion illegal won't get rid of it, but it does lead women to die → Read More
Trump's budget is an unmitigated disaster for abortion rights and reproductive health
The budget works to undermine the ultimate source of women’s physical and socioeconomic empowerment: self-determination. → Read More
Right-Wing Media Twisted This Mother’s Pain to Fit Its Anti-Abortion Agenda
After social media trolls targeted her daughter’s disability, one advocate’s fight to right the wrong became a proxy fight over abortion care. → Read More
A Q&A With One of the Men Calling Bullshit on Anti-Choice Legislation in Illinois
"When a man chooses to be silent on reproductive rights, he is choosing complacency with inequity," says Blake Kelley, a Men4Choice board member. → Read More
Women’s health clinic provides free abortion care to Texas-based hurricane survivors
Financial burdens in the wake of a crisis have made affording an abortion nearly impossible. → Read More
Pregnant People, New Parents Need More Emotional Support
A forthcoming study of nearly 85,000 Norwegian mothers has found that "self-esteem decreased during pregnancy, increased until the child was six months old and then gradually decreased over the following years." → Read More
Texas wants to criminalize helping people get abortions
It’s not just abortion providers. Even if you drive someone to the clinic, you might be prosecuted. → Read More
I Went From Oversupply To Undersupply Overnight, & It Was An Actual Nightmare
Like many nursing moms, I struggled with supply issues that made breastfeeding close to impossible. But unlike many women, I didn't have to deal with undersupply. Instead, my breasts produced so much milk that I was in constant pain and my babies had… → Read More
Telemedicine Abortion Is Very Safe, Despite What Lawmakers Say
Telemedicine could very well be the antidote to social conservatives’ attacks on reproductive rights—but only if states ease restrictions on who is allowed to perform medication abortion, and how. → Read More
All I want for Mother’s Day is for my wonderful family to leave me alone
This year, my family can skip the flowers, the gifts, and the breakfast in bed. For Mother’s Day, all I want is to be left alone. I realize this may sound harsh. But peace and quiet are the best gifts I could possibly receive—precisely because they’re so hard to come by when you’re the primary... → Read More
New website helps women self-induce abortion –
This is changing what access to safe health care looks like. → Read More
I Posted My Cellulite On Instagram For A Week, & It Made Me Feel Awesome
When my first butt dimple appeared in my 20s, I freaked out. But it was nothing compared to the cellulite that showed up during my first pregnancy. I was unprepared for what pregnancy hormones, water retention, and weight gain would do to my butt and → Read More
Maryland Governor Takes Atypical GOP Approach to Reproductive Rights
Polls suggest Larry Hogan, a GOP governor in a blue state, is the country's second most popular governor, but reproductive rights activists remain skeptical. → Read More
Montana wants to charge doctors with homicide for performing late-term abortion
An extreme anti-abortion bill in Montana is poised to deal a major blow to abortion rights in the state, should the governor sign it. The bill, S.B. 282, defines fetal viability at 24 weeks… → Read More
History shows that sex strikes are a surprisingly effective strategy for political change
In a recent interview with Marie Claire, singer Janelle Monáe called for a sex strike in the name of women’s rights. “People have to start respecting the vagina,” she said. “Until every man is fighting for our rights, we should consider stopping having sex.” It’s not such a crazy idea: Women have withheld sex to... → Read More
The “Day Without a Woman” strike is going to be mostly a day without privileged women
It's an unfortunate but not surprising consequence of an event without a clear purpose—or an understanding of feminist history. → Read More
New Year Promises an Uphill Battle on Abortion—What You Can Do About It
It’s incumbent upon each of us as individuals—as well as within and across social justice movements—to fight every attempt to block abortion access. → Read More
Language Matters: Why I Don't Fear Being Called 'Pro-Abortion'
Words can and do hurt, especially when they cast people who seek or provide abortion care as immoral or murderers. But pro-choice activists can embrace unapologetic language that represents hope, self-determination, and bodily autonomy. → Read More