“Will you marry me? Imagine that was a question you could never actually answer,” says disability rights activist Imani Barbarin, reflecting on the “marriage penalty.” The term describes the legal rule that, as Sage Howard puts it, “robs disabled people…
A new report from the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health studied how each state in the U.S. is responding to the needs of new and expecting mothers. The results are, put bluntly, dismal – as the report notes, the…
Something terrible is happening in South Carolina. So-called “fetal personhood” laws are facilitating the criminalization of pregnant people for “child neglect,” and “endangerment.” This legal fiction – that pregnant people can neglect or endanger a child who has yet to…
