Ms Magazine held a forum at the National Press Club on Wednesday to raise awareness for the effort to increase funding for international family planning to $1 billion in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. Katherine Spillar, executive editor of

The Florida Senate rejected on Wednesday a bill that would have required a woman undergo an ultrasound and view the results before obtaining an abortion. A 20-20 tie vote killed the measure in the Republican-controlled Senate, with a coalition of

A panel of judges for the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments on Tuesday in the case of three women who were denied asylum by the Board of Immigration Appeals after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Guinea.