Experience: A firework exploded my groin
A lady grabbed my hand and began praying. That was the moment I thought I might be dying
Texas anti-abortion law shows ‘terrifying’ fragility of women’s rights, say activists
Campaigners fear ban emboldens anti-choice governments as more aggressive opposition, better organised and funded, spreads from US
‘It’s easy to dismiss Black women’s lives’: Texas drags feet on maternal mortality crisis
As state legislature falls short on Medicaid expansion, campaigners vow to keep addressing healthcare disparities
West Texas school chlamydia outbreak may never have happened
State health officials tell the Guardian that they do not know where figure that 20 students had sexually transmitted infection came from
‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out
Curtis and Glenna Boyd have worked in US abortion clinics ever since Roe v Wade made the practice legal in 1973. Forty years on, restricted rights mean they have to practise under FBI protection. Karen McVeigh reports
Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers
Several papers decline to use cartoon strip, which depicts state-required sonograms as Republican-approved rape
Virginia’s vagina-violating ultrasound law
Lizz Winstead: Governor McDonnell frets that his ultrasound law violates the US constitution. Let me tell you, Bob, it violates a lot more than that