Abortion Is Health Care
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law, requires that hospitals provide stabilizing care – including abortions – to patients in medical emergencies. But...
View ArticleEscambia County School District versus Our Human Rights
In May 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1069 – a plainly pro-censorship, anti-sexual freedom, and anti-student bill – into law. Among the law’s many problematic provisions is its censorship...
View ArticleThe Right to Abortion in Pennsylvania
In the realm of reproductive justice, good news is scarce. Today, I write with some hope: Pennsylvania is considering removing a barrier to abortion access. To many, this signals a move toward finding...
View ArticleDe Facto Censorship in West Virginia
This year is already shaping up to be rife with censorship. On February 16, West Virginia joined the list of states mounting attacks to our rights to freely access information through the passage of HB...
View ArticleMissouri’s HB 2885 Criminalizes Supporting Trans Kids
A quick glance at our recent blog posts makes it clear: attacks on our human rights consistently involve criminalization as an enforcement tool. Conservatives are expanding the carceral state, from...
View ArticleImproving Access to Gender-Affirming Care in Hawaii
Getting gender-affirming care in the United States has become increasingly difficult. Across the country, there are laws or policies banning such care for minors. The Human Rights Campaign reports that...
View ArticleFact Checked: Why Now? Why Woodhull?
Why Woodhull? Information spreads fast online. It seems to spread even faster when it’s wrong. And when people form opinions based on inaccurate information, those opinions can lead to dangerous...
View ArticleAge Verification: It’s not the measure; it’s the means!
Online age verification systems are becoming increasingly common as websites and platforms try to comply with laws restricting access to certain types of content for minors. From porn sites to social...
View ArticleOnline Censorship & Sex Ed
From age verification laws creating needless barriers to viewing pornography to book bans targeting “sexually explicit content,” it’s increasingly clear that the moral panic fueling much of the rise in...
View ArticleProtecting Pregnant Workers
Pregnant workers, like all workers, deserve to work in safe and healthy workplaces, rid of discrimination. This is the bare minimum. Thankfully, on April 15, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
View ArticleDigital Surveillance In the Wake of Dobbs
June 24 will mark two years since the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe and held that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t confer a right to abortion. The effects have been devastating – just take a look...
View ArticleAdvocacy Day Reflections
Legislative advocacy can feel like shouting into the void. Endless letters and statements answered by generic emails from Legislators and their staffers, followed by anxiously waiting for the result of...
View ArticleThe Maternal Mental Health Crisis
A new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health studied how each state in the U.S. is responding to the needs of new and expecting mothers. The results are, put bluntly, dismal – as the...
View ArticleGood Riddance to New Hampshire’s “Banned Concepts” Law
Late this May, a federal court ruling struck down New Hampshire’s classroom censorship law, known as a “banned concepts” law. The law identified concepts that teachers couldn’t teach students, all...
View ArticleCalifornia’s A.B. 3080 and Threats to Our Rights to Free Speech and Privacy
Unfortunately, a new censorship bill passed the California Assembly in May. The bill, A.B. 3080, includes a requirement for certain websites that display sexual content to verify the ages of their...
View ArticleDepartment of State v. Muñoz: Authorizing Family Separation
The conservative Justices of the United States Supreme Court (who compose six of the nine Justices on the bench) are on a rampage against our most fundamental human rights. In the past few weeks,...
View ArticleKeeping Ourselves (and Our Data) Safe
We at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation are proud to have worked closely with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world...
View ArticleThe Looming Danger of the Kids Online Safety Act
We at the Woodhull Freedom Foundation have been clear: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) – which purports to protect the well-being of children and teenagers engaging in digital media – is dangerous....
View ArticleEnding the Marriage Penalty
“Will you marry me? Imagine that was a question you could never actually answer,” says disability rights activist Imani Barbarin, reflecting on the “marriage penalty.” The term describes the legal rule...
View ArticleLGBTQIA+ Death Penalty
Sentencing LGBTQIA+ People to Death Recently, The Appeal analyzed criminal cases in which queer defendants faced the death penalty, examining how their LGBTQIA+ identity played into the outcome. The...
View Article