Women’s Rights News

Updated July 22, 2025 10:01 PM ET  By The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender women from competing in women’s sports, telling the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports it has an “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Trump. The…

Patients do not have legal standing to sue if a state denies their right to see their preferred medical provider, the court said in a 6-3 ruling. By Alice Miranda Ollstein, Josh Gerstein and Lauren Gardner Updated: 06/26/2025 01:22 PM EDT The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for states to exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs. In…

By Daniel Wiessner May 22, 2025 11:19 AM CDT May 22 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Louisiana has ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot require employers to provide accommodations to employees who get abortions, striking down a rule adopted during the administration of Democratic former President Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge David…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Updated 3:59 PM CDT, March 6, 2025 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded in economies and societies. The report released Thursday by…

By  MARÍA VERZA Updated 7:08 PM CDT, May 15, 2025 MEXICO CITY (AP) — All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp were met with silence. The nongovernmental organization’s business account had been blocked. Weeks later, a similar digital blackout struck a collective…

In a survey, patients reported dismissive comments and being told to lose weight, go to therapy or drink more alcohol to cope with sexual dysfunction. By Linda Carroll May 8, 2025, 12:21 PM CDT Women seeking help for certain gynecological disorders may have their symptoms gaslighted by their doctors or nurses, a new study suggests. The flood of…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Updated 4:45 PM CDT, March 10, 2025 UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Confronting a rising backlash against women’s rights, the U.N.’s 193 member nations made a commitment Monday to accelerate action on more than a dozen fronts to achieve gender equality. A political declaration adopted at the start of the annual meeting of the…

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Updated 12:33 PM CDT, April 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights activists. But more recently, fellow abortion opponents, who call themselves abortion abolitionists, are showing up to her booths with…

March 19, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Rosemary Westwood At the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), physicians use telehealth to prescribe and mail pills to people who live in states that ban or restrict abortion. When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman…

March 9, 20256:00 AM ETRyan Lucas One morning in late August 2021, Phebe Brandt was attending to patients at a Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, where she works as a nurse practitioner, when someone at the front desk told her a man had barricaded himself in one of the bathrooms. Just a few minutes later,…