Birthing While Incarcerated
Prisons and jails are not safe and healthy places; they are, by design, the site of unthinkable abuse and inhumane conditions. Pregnant people on the inside acutely experience the violence of incarceration. Every year, an estimated 58,000 pregnant people are…
The Human Right to Childcare
Childcare, one of the most important elements of our society, is inaccessible for many and unguaranteed for all. In the U.S., childcare is not viewed as a vital public service and has been relegated to private industry, which has not…
Woodhull’s Human Rights Commission Releases Findings from Super Bowl Sex Trafficking Myths
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Woodhull’s Human Rights Commission Releases “Fact or Fiction: Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, and Human Rights at the Super Bowls” (Washington, DC / February 8, 2022) -- Woodhull Freedom Foundation, as part of its Human Rights Commissions program,…
Funding Abortion
On December 1, 2021, the day that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the obvious became ever-the-more clear: one way or another, the Court will gut abortion rights. As Mary Ziegler wrote in…
