The mists lift over a post-Roe landscape
This week the online magazine Politico published a leaked draft opinion from the US Supreme Court which would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision...
Transgender medicine in the US accelerates
The cause of transgender rights received a moral boost this week when US President Joe Biden again proclaimed March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility....
Forced sterilization is legal in 30+ US states
Most Americans believe that forced sterilization is a human rights abuse that ended decades ago. But a report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)...
Repudiating the foundation document of American medical education as racist and sexist
1910 was a landmark year in American medicine. The publication of the Flexner Report on medical education led to a rapid transformation of the medical...