Software company sends message to workforce addressing access to reproductive healthcareThe cloud-based software giant Salesforce is offering to help relocate employees out of Texas following the state’s enactment of its extreme new abortion law.Referr…
‘Tomorrow they will kill me’: Afghan female police officers live in fear of Taliban reprisals
With at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
‘They came for my daughter’: Afghan single mothers face losing children under Taliban
Life for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marred by stigma and poverty. Now with the Taliban in control, what few protections they had have disappearedThe day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, fell to the Tali…
Mexico’s supreme court rules criminal penalties for abortion unconstitutional
Court orders Coahuila to remove sanctions for abortion from criminal code, clearing a path to decriminalisation across MexicoMexico’s supreme court has struck down a state abortion law, ruling that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies are unc…
“I did everything I could to show some beauty in a corner of Afganistan”
“Leaving my photo project behind was one of the hardest parts of fleeing. It was everything I worked on for over three years. And what will happen to those pictures? What will happen to the women in the pictures?”
Photographer Fatimah Hossaini spent t…
In a society that fetishises female self-sacrifice, saying ‘no’ saved me | Grace Jennings-Edquist
Women continue to take on a disproportionate amount of unpaid household labour and the ‘mental load’. But the road to ‘no’ can be a long oneAs a working mother, one word has saved me as the pandemic has worn on: “No.” I’ve learned to say “no” to being …
What would happen if I were pregnant in Texas right now? | Zoe Ettinger
Texas just banned abortion at six weeks. I didn’t even know I was pregnant until five, and that’s earlier than mostFour years ago, when I was a 22-year-old college student in Virginia, I found out I was pregnant. I knew I was late, maybe a bit longer t…
‘A kick in the teeth’: British mothers and pregnant women fear return to workplace
Companies recalling staff this month have been accused of not offering flexitime and failing to protect employeesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBefore the pandemic, every morning and night was a cycle of stress and rushing …
It’s not just Texas – anti-abortion activists are targeting women’s rights in Europe | Mara Clarke
Draconian laws in European countries and the effects of Brexit and Covid-19 are making safe terminations harder to accessMara Clarke is the founder of Abortion Support NetworkThe state of Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law to be passed in …
The Guardian view on the Texas abortion ban: this is not the end | Editorial
The supreme court’s refusal to block the law marks a grave blow to the freedom and safety of womenThe cruel, vindictive and dangerous law that has taken effect in Texas is much more than the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the United States. …