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A Trump-Vance sign in Brookline, Massachusetts. While President-elect Donald Trump plans to make changes to reproductive, healthcare, education and immigration policies, Boston’s policies maintain protections. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

How do Trump’s second term policies measure up to Massachusetts?

Emma Mullay November 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump made many large-scale promises on policies concerning key voter issues both during his campaign and since his reelection — here’s how they shape up in Boston and Massachusetts.
Planned Parenthood - Greater Boston Health Center. June 24 will mark two years since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision that ended the federal right to abortion, overturning a nearly 50-year precedent. RACHEL FEINSTEIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Two years post-Roe: Greater Boston assesses local impact, looks ahead to November

Lauren Albano June 1, 2024
In the face of increased restrictions on abortion nationwide, since the case was overturned, Massachusetts continues to legally protect abortion. Greater Boston community members and leaders recognize how two years post-Roe have impacted Massachusetts and how abortion may affect the 2024 presidential election.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Fighting for abortion rights is exhausting | The Perfectly Imperfect Human Condition

Lillian Chapman November 12, 2023
The exhausting struggle for reproductive rights makes it hard to be excited about Ohio Issue 1 because Republicans are already promising to try and reverse it.
Protesters hold up signs while listening to speakers during the Boston March for Our Lives last June. HUI-EN LIN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

A look back on activism in Boston over the past year

Anna Rubenstein June 2, 2023
Protests on abortion access, gun reform, teacher wages and climate change all took place during the past year in Boston, making the city a microcosm of larger national movements and a champion for local issues. 
Abortion rally (1)

Latest restriction on abortion rights sparks local protest

Sujena Soumyanath April 18, 2023
Around 30 protesters demanded legalized abortion Saturday at Boston Common, after a Texas ruling threatened to remove abortion pills from the market on April 7.
Yvonne Tang | Senior Graphic Artist

A conversation on ‘One Child Nation’

Rachel Zhong April 13, 2023
"One Child Nation" is a documentary that follows the aftereffects of China's one-child policy that limited a family to have only one child.
The on-campus CVS Pharmacy.

Massachusetts pharmacies required to continue providing medication abortion

Valeria Rivera March 30, 2023
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey issued a statement Wednesday that pharmacies statewide  will still be required to stock essential family planning medications, despite national efforts to ban them. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Medical abortion: An overview of a safe, but opposed, procedure

Benjamin Pollock March 27, 2023
Instead of focusing on the grim reality of this attack on reproductive rights, I want to use this space to discuss the scientific facts about medical abortions and the benefits abortion access affords.
A hand reaching to grab a tampon out of a feminine product dispenser

City files hearing to implement pilot program providing free menstrual products in municipal buildings

Katrina Scalise February 21, 2023
The Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy is beginning a pilot program that will provide free menstrual products in city buildings in the coming months.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley speaking on the COM lawn

Rep. Ayanna Pressley seeks to protect abortion access with EACH Act

Daily Free Press Staff January 31, 2023
U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley helped reintroduce the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Healthcare (EACH) Act on Jan. 26 at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

Don’t settle for adequate rights: A generational approach to defending Roe | EDITORIAL

Editors January 30, 2023
In light of the Supreme Court overturning the novelty Roe v. Wade doctrine, people across all different generations took to the streets of Boston for the 2023 Women's March to demand back their right to bodily autonomy.
Women's March abortion

GALLERY: Hundreds march through downtown Boston in support of abortion rights

Clare Ong October 16, 2022
As part of the Oct. 8 Women's Wave movement across the U.S., pro-abortion activists held a protest for reproductive rights.
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