Nurses’ Role in Abortion Care
Abortion access is fraught for a many, from increased digital surveillance of people seeking abortion care to the criminalization of pregnancy. Less discussed are the issues involved when someone...
View ArticleNew(ish) KOSA, Same Old Problems
We’ve written extensively about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and we’ve made our position clear: KOSA’s plan for online censorship threatens our cherished human rights. In the words of Daly...
View ArticleHonoring Amber Nicole Thurman
Amber Nicole Thurman should be alive right now. But in 2022, due to Georgia’s extreme six-week abortion ban (which has since been struck down), Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Black woman, mother,...
View ArticleThe False Promise of Florida’s Fatal Fetal Anomaly Abortion Ban “Exception”
Florida limits abortions after six weeks, with a notable exception: pregnancies with fetal anomalies that could prove fatal to the fetus. But in the draconian state of abortion access, it comes as no...
View ArticleConservatives Attack Mifepristone, Yet Again
Surprise, surprise. Yet again, conservatives are attacking mifepristone. But this time, they’re floating a new, outrageous legal theory against medication abortion. The theory? Attorneys general from...
View Article2024 US General Election Analysis: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities for...
On November 14, 2024, Woodhull Freedom Foundation and New Moon Network hosted a dialogue to gather with leaders in the movement for sex workers’ rights and the adult industry to share information on...
View ArticleThe Popularity of Abortion Rights Ballot Measures
Earlier this month, Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. But so did seven ballot measures protecting abortion rights in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York....
View ArticleTexas’ H.B. 991: An Unconscionable Attack on Abortion Rights and Free Speech
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks...
View ArticleBanning Book Bans in New Jersey
Soon, the year of 2024 is coming to a close. It’s been, to put it mildly, a horrific year for human rights, and our right to free speech is no exception. But where there has been repression, there has...
View ArticleTexas Bill’s Proposed Pleasure Ban
It might be unsurprising, but that doesn’t make it any less shocking: Republicans in Texas have introduced H.B. 1549, a bill that would restrict sales of pleasure products at “big-box” stores and other...
View ArticleThe Pornhub Ban Across the U.S. South
It’s nonsensical and draconian, and now, it’s reality: Pornhub is inaccessible in 16 U.S. states due to age-verification laws. Generally, as James Factora writes, such laws “force sites containing...
View ArticleWhat Meta’s Content Moderation Changes Mean for Censoring Sexual Freedom Online
At the start of the new year, Meta made waves when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they would be changing their content moderation policies to eliminate censorship on their platforms, Threads, Instagram,...
View ArticleProject 2025 is Here. Batten Down the Hatches. Porn May be Next.
In a Truth Social post on July 5, 2024, then-candidate Donald J. Trump wrote: “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and...
View ArticleTrans Health Care Under Trump
Back during his campaign, President Trump was unequivocal: “I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender...
View ArticleNo, Sex Trafficking will not Spike During the Super Bowl, but Harmful Police...
Want to hear an outright lie told often around this time of year? Here’s one: the Super Bowl is “the single largest human-trafficking incident in the United States.” This 100% false statement, lacking...
View ArticleThe Reinstated Global Gag Rule
Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag...
View ArticleThe Destruction of Gender-Affirming Healthcare for NYC Trans Youth
Trump’s January 28, 2025, Executive Order attacking gender-affirming healthcare for youth – the title of which is too awful to repeat here – is already causing unthinkable harm across the U.S. Among...
View ArticleWoodhull Freedom Foundation and Allies Respond to UN Special Rapporteur on...
On January 30, 2025, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the National Survivor Network (NSN), and Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) submitted a response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur (SR) on Violence...
View ArticleAge Verification and the Censorship LGBTQ+ Content Online
As a human rights organization working to protect the fundamental human right to sexual freedom, it’s no surprise that we’ve written repeatedly about age verification laws, which facilitate censorship...
View ArticleConversion Therapy in Colorado
Colorado law presently prohibits licensed physicians who specialize in psychiatry and mental health care providers from engaging in conversion therapy with anyone under 18 years old. As explained by...
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