COMMENTARY | Abstinence-only agenda ignores progress made with sex education As the nation’s largest provider of sex education, Planned Parenthood knows that young people need to understand what a healthy relationship looks like and have the opportunity t ...
15 Jun 2018 - Jimmy Radosta
Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and sev ...
23 Feb 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Even when the GOP plan was still on the table, the congressman from Oregon was working on a revised proposal After a grueling 27-hour debate, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Oregon’s Rep. Greg Walden, voted March 9 to advance the ...
23 Mar 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
The stakes are high for women’s reproductive freedoms, Ilyse Hogue explains Before a national television audience, Ilyse Hogue took the stage on the third night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention and did the unthinkable – she spoke publicly about ...
22 Sep 2016 - Emily Green
When a doctor came to her aid years before abortion was legal, Gloria Steinem vowed she’d do what she wanted with her life. At 81, the journalist, feminist and political activist is still making good on her word. Fresh from college in 1957, then 22, Glori ...
24 Mar 2016 - Antonia Charlesworth
COMMENTARY | Proposed ballot measure would reverse progress on reproductive freedom In 1916, Portland helped draw widespread attention to the reproductive rights movement when Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was arrested for distributing pamphl ...
29 Jan 2016 - Mary Nolan
The new ACLU of Oregon director also sounds the alarm on pending ballot measures, digital privacy, criminal justice As a child, watching the “CBS Evening News” was routine for David Rogers. Each night, his family gathered around a television set in their ...
21 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
Cascades Abortion Support Collective provides help before, during and after ending a pregnancy For Oregon residents seeking an abortion, finding a clinic or provider to perform one is easy. What is often harder to come by is the rest of the experience – t ...
7 Jan 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Truth is often stranger than fiction, and that’s certainly the case on Portland’s streets. Drawing from experience, Patricia Kullberg blends the two in ‘Girl in the River.’ For 20 years, Dr. Patricia Kullberg was the medical director for the Multnomah Cou ...
8 Dec 2015 - Sarah Hansell
The reproductive rights maverick talks about the Janes of yesterday and today Judith Arcana is chewing on a pastry while she mulls over why it is that U.S. lawmakers politicize women’s bodies. But then a toddler one booth over in the small café pitches he ...
18 Jul 2013 - Erin Fenner