wooden gavel with stethoscope in front of gray background

‘If you’re wondering why women’s rights matter’: Idaho woman shares horrifying experience trying to get treatment for miscarriage amid abortion ban

'They're always going to send me home.'

On Dec 18, 2022 by Brooke Sjoberg

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woman shows what six week pregnancy tissue looks like tiktok

Anti-abortion advocates call TikToker a ‘liar’ for showing what embryonic tissue looks like at 10 weeks

They don't believe it.

On Oct 20, 2022 by Claire Goforth

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woman greenscreen tiktok pointing over text messages caption 'Walgreens: ABIGAIL, your Rx ETO is due now. Reply REFILL ti fill. Rx details (website) (l) women in line at Walgreens pharmacy picking up medication (c) woman greenscreen tiktok pointing over text messages caption 'RENEW' 'Thanks! We'll contact your prescriber to request more refills. This may take a few days- we'll keep you posted. ABIGAIL, your Walgreens Rx is DELAYED. We're working on getting prescriber approval to refill it' (r)

‘I am so beyond pissed at our country right now’: TikToker says Walgreens employee refused to refill her birth control prescription

'The Handmaid's Tale was meant to be fiction not a manual.'

On Jul 4, 2022 by Brooke Sjoberg

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woman speaking in car hand up (l) group of gen z people heads down arms raised (c) woman speaking in car arm raised (r)

‘They’re fighting because they have nothing to lose’: TikToker says everything has been taken away from Gen Z, sparking debate about societal issues

'Most of us have lost all will to live.'

On Jul 4, 2022 by Jack Alban

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parking lot with captions 'i go to planned parenthood ONCE', 'don't black lives matter?' and 'i didn't even go in????' (l) planned parenthood sign (c) parking lot with caption 'why are you here to kill a black life?' (r)

‘Do Black lives matter, or do they not?’: Black woman gets harassed after parking near a Planned Parenthood

'AIN'T NO WAY SHE SAID THAT???'

On Jun 15, 2022 by Braden Bjella

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woman in chair talking captions 'My first year in the military, at 20, I was roofied and SA by 3 service members' 'I ended up pregnant. I wanted to keep the baby, but didnt want a child from an SA' (l) woman in chair speaking caption 'YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE TO CHOOSE' (c) woman sitting in chair caption 'The procedure ended up ruining any chance I would EVER have of having a child of my own.' (r)

Women in the military are using a sound on TikTok to share their sexual assault experiences while serving

'The military sweeps too much [sexual assault] under the rug and it needs to stop.'

On May 12, 2022 by Tricia Crimmins

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man tiktok greenscreen smirking over text messages caption 'She didn't reply back to that?' 'Trying to get one of those abortions before they become illegal right?' 'you're so blank pathetic you piece of blank why would you say something like that' 'I'll do better' (l) Wooden person shape with smaller person shape falling out onto table on blue background (insinuating losing a baby)

‘U have no idea how this will impact women but yea super funny!’: Man shares his abortion-themed pick-up line he uses on Tinder matches, sparking debate

'Glad this situation is a joke to you.'

On May 5, 2022 by Rachel Kiley

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PLAN B Emergency Contraceptive 47.49 price tag over empty shelves with caption 'Y'all weren't kidding'

Viral video shows Plan B shelves empty at Target

While Megan Thee Stallion was first credited, the video went again viral in wake of the Roe v. Wade news.

On May 4, 2022 by Braden Bjella

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Supreme court with dark blue sky

Conservatives launch vigilante campaign to hunt down Supreme Court leaker

Despite what would seem to be a victory, they're more concerned with tarring the person who leaked it.

On May 3, 2022 by David Covucci

Tech
Man talking caption 'HOW TO GET PROMOTED WOMAN EDITION' 'What if you are a woman lol' (l) woman walking up stairs being drawn by hand gray background (r)

‘This is so manipulative give me more secrets’: TikToker says this is ‘how to get promoted’ as a woman

'MORE WHITE MAN SECRETS! Now!!'

On Apr 23, 2022 by Brooke Sjoberg

Internet Culture IRL
young woman in hoody (l) people on sidewalk with signs (c) same young woman giving thumbs up (r) all with caption 'Planned Parenthood hack: dress like a boy so they don't harass you'

‘Smart, but no one should have to do this’: TikToker dresses ‘like a boy’ to not get harassed outside of Planned Parenthood, sparking debate

'This is also a general hack for walking around anywhere.'

On Apr 6, 2022 by Braden Bjella

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Woman on livestream man face in corner caption 'watch me expose a convicted kidnapper for trying to speak on bodily autonomy' (l) Wooden gavel and handcuffs on wooden table (c) Woman livestream holding laptop up with the man's mugshot caption 'watch me expose a convicted kidnapper for trying to speak on bodily autonomy' (r)

‘No wonder you have no regard for bodily autonomy’: TikToker exposes man as convicted kidnapper during their live-stream debate about abortion

“This is the coldest ‘this you?’ I’ve ever seen."

On Apr 1, 2022 by Braden Bjella

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pink painted parking garage

‘I’d feel safer in the normal one’: Viral TikTok of women-only parking garage sparks debate

'Idea was there, execution not very much'

On Oct 27, 2021 by Clara Wang

Internet Culture IRL
Hoochies of Houston

‘We were treated very f*cking terribly’: Black speaker says she was cut off by white organizers at abortion march

'We were shot down and treated like trash.'

On Oct 21, 2021 by Samira Sadeque

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Nearly nude protester attempts to derail march

‘These men out here using their personalities as birth control’: Pro-life troll disrupts women’s march by streaking in boxers

In response, he started a GoFundMe.

On Oct 6, 2021 by Nahila Bonfiglio

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