Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . While I suspect most teen sexting is relatively harmless, most of us are rightly concerned about incidents in which naked pictures of teenagers get forwarded and distributed without their consent. In [...]

Written by Sarah Seltzer for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Kathryn Joyce’s new look at the adoption industry, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption , contains within its pages true horror stories. Perhaps most shockingly, the book details [...]

Written by Kathy Bougher for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .

See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here.

On Wednesday, May 15 the Supreme Court of El Salvador will hear testimony from Beatriz, [...]

Written by Adele Stan for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post .

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. — Niccolo Machiavelli

At a gathering of Catholics in his archdiocese last year, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the archbishop of New York, [...]

Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . There are two roles anti-choicers like to play for which they are ill-equipped. First, they like to play doctor. And second, they like to play God. In doing so, they [...]

Editor’s Note: The Justice Department filed suit to block Judge Korman’s ruling .

The Obama administration said Wednesday that girls under 15 should not have access to the most common morning-after contraceptive pill as the Justice Department filed a notice to appeal a judge’s order that would make the drug available without a prescription for girls and women of all [...]

Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Like many RH Reality Check readers, I have been closely following New York City’s fear- and shame-based campaign against teen pregnancy . The print ads include pictures of crying babies with captions like “Honestly [...]

Written by Bridgette Dunlap for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . This week, the government filed an emergency motion in the New York Archdiocese’s lawsuit against the contraceptive coverage mandate, requesting that the court halt proceedings and dismiss the case. The emergency [...]

Written by Jon O’Brien for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . At a time when state legislatures continue to break new records for the number of restrictions on reproductive health-care access introduced, passed into law, and placed on ballots, when lawsuits against birth [...]

Written by Dr. Linda Prine and Dr. Ruth Lesnewski for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In one of the clinics where we work, a 16-year-old girl came in with a sprained ankle.  She left with a prescription for birth control. This turn of [...]

Written by Kathy Bougher for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Beatriz wants to live. A 22-year-old Salvadoran from a poor, rural community, Beatriz (a pseudonym to protect privacy) suffers from chronic and severe medical conditions . She is the mother of an infant. And she [...]

Written by Jessica Mason Pieklo for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . On Friday U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten handed anti-choice terrorist  Angel Dillard a win, ruling Dillard doesn’t have to disclose “ministerial discussions” she had with Scott Roeder, the man convicted [...]

Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Though most of us are still not quite sure what it is, the concept of “gateway sexual activity” is back, or at least a ban on teaching about it is back.This [...]

Written by Tara Murtha for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In recent days, amidst cries of a media “blackout,” a number of journalists have admitted to either missing or dismissing the story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell over the past two years. [...]

Written by Erin Grant for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . See all our coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case here. Some reporters and media critics have claimed that not enough is being written about the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an illegal abortion [...]

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . See all our coverage of the Kermit Gosnell case here. Kermit Gosnell, the sadistic monster who exploited lack of access to safe abortion care among poor and immigrant women to both torture [...]

Written by Elizabeth Nash and Rachel Benson Gold for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . In 2013, as in recent years, state legislatures are devoting significant attention to issues related to reproductive health and rights. During the first three months of the year, [...]

Written by Morgan Meneses-Sheets for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . After a significant delay, the president submitted his budget to Congress Wednesday. Reproductive health, rights, and justice advocates were pleased to see that he included language allowing the District of Columbia to [...]

Written by Kari Ann Rinker for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Every community has its own unique history shaped its people, its geography, and its circumstance. Wichita, Kansas, has been home to such notable people as Carrie Nation and Wyatt Earp. [...]

Written by Sidra Zaidi for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post . Reproductive rights advocates have something to cheer about: A federal judge ruled last week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must allow universal access to Plan B over-the-counter for all [...]