Leading Voices

Feeling awful about having contracted a sexually transmitted infection? Here's the nitty-gritty on the stigmatization of STIs and people with them and how to deal.

Does vaginal intercourse hurt? Feel like you're the only one in the whole wide world who doesn't think it's the best thing ever? Here's a reality check and some places to get started to ditch sexual pain and find pleasure instead.

Gender and gender identity are complex and diverse: there's not just one way of being a girl, being trans gender, and those also aren't your only choices. So how do you figure out where you're at when the little boxes don't seem to fit?

Cy Romney, prominent Ob/Gyn, founder of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, advocate for legal abortion, believed every pregnancy should be a wanted pregnancy.

Four days ago a young woman died giving birth in a bustling marketplace in New Delhi, just steps away from Parliament, and at the beginning of an international conference on maternal health. This is not acceptable.

The Hyde amendment puts women in the most dire of situations.  They have to choose between paying their rent or being pregnant, feeding their children or being pregnant, pawning their car or being pregnant.

In California’s prisons, pregnant Black women, brown women, and Asian-Pacific Islander women are chained together in a barbaric throwback to another time. But it’s here and now.

Richard Doerfinger of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops calls contraception "dismissive of women." Thanks for your concern, Richard, but we can make that decision for ourselves.

An analysis of U.S. public opinion research on core reproductive justice values and issues reveals conflicting attitudes on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and the rights of LGBTQ persons.

After signing a controversial $600 million border security bill last week, President Barack Obama is drawing fire from immigration reform advocates and anti-immigrant conservatives alike.