December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. For over 20 years, memorials and vigils have been held on this day to honor the sex workers lost to physical and systemic violence. While this day initially…
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks Texans’ most fundamental human rights to…
Surprise, surprise. Yet again, conservatives are attacking mifepristone. But this time, they’re floating a new, outrageous legal theory against medication abortion. The theory? Attorneys general from Kansas, Missouri, and Idaho posit that the decreased births from abortion pills cause potential…
Florida limits abortions after six weeks, with a notable exception: pregnancies with fetal anomalies that could prove fatal to the fetus. But in the draconian state of abortion access, it comes as no surprise that this exception brings little to…
Amber Nicole Thurman should be alive right now. But in 2022, due to Georgia’s extreme six-week abortion ban (which has since been struck down), Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Black woman, mother, daughter, sister, friend, and human being, died. Amber…
Anti-porn advocates argue that pornography websites increase the prevalence of non consensual intimate images (NCII) or “revenge porn.” However, research shows that these sites are predominantly not where revenge porn is shared. More effective regulation and comprehensive sex education would be more effective at protecting NCII victims than banning pornography websites.
March 21, 2024 RE: Support for H7833 - “Relating to Criminal Offenses - Custodial Law Enforcement Sexual Penetration” To the House Judiciary Committee, The Woodhull Freedom Foundation would like to show our support for H7833, which establishes the criminal offense…
February 20, 2024 Re: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Supports A.7471(Kelles)/ S.1966 (Sepulveda) Dear Legislator: The Woodhull Freedom Foundation supports A.7471/S.1966, legislation to enable victims and witnesses to a crime to be able to seek help without fear of being prosecuted for…
In May 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1069 – a plainly pro-censorship, anti-sexual freedom, and anti-student bill – into law. Among the law’s many problematic provisions is its censorship directed at libraries, including school libraries. It confers upon residents…